the four tops - its the same old song

It's not supposed to suck?

This song's OK, I guess. Maybe worse for wear-and-tear from being overplayed, but far from the worst thing ever recorded.

Anyway, I tend to remember this song for one thing. Back as an undergrad, some college friends and I went into an off-campus bar just as it was closing. We walked in, and these four guys built like NFL linebackers were dancing to "It's the Same Old Song." Spinning each other, almost moshing into each other to a Motown song. Shit looked like something out of that Disney cartoon with the dancing hippos in tutus, it was so fucked up. We left, if for no other reason than we didn't want to get our asses kicked for laughing at four guys built like linebackers dancing like idiots to a dumb Motown song.

no it doesn't. i can relate to it, and levi stubbs is the wickedest singer, this song makes me feel sick its so good.

One of my favorites from them...

They didn't make a poor single during the period with Holland-Dozier- Holland, and Levi Stubbs is among the greatest singers. This isn't one of their very best then, but it's interesting in that it's arguably the first metasong, a lyric that can be considered in the same way as any other, but can also be thought of as a comment on the criticisms about the similarity of one H-D-H Motown tune to the others. Most of Eminem's stuff is like this now, but I can't think of an earlier example that could be considered this way.

several early beatles songs are metapop martin, tho not quite so explicitly, no: and i think those cole porter-type non-performer songwriter guys did stuff like this also fairly often

first example in factoryline pop possibly?

haha my brain is mush this morning and i can think of no actual named examples whatever at all

Ethan = uncharacteristically MENTALIST here, as with Roots Manuva. It's ace.

"Love Foolosophy" (Jamiroquai) channels "It's The Same Old Song" (Four Tops) - albeit in discoid form.

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