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Latest issue of GQ sees two covers, one has David Cameron, the other has Girls Aloud. lol class divide.

Anyway, the Girls Aloud piece is done by ILM's favourite music writer, Alex S. Petridish, and is the usual puff-piece with some PRETENSIONS TO CULTURAL COMMENTARY, it's not a bad read to be honest for what it is.

At one point, Al shows GA a blog review of Chemistry "that reads like a protracted entry in Pseud's Corner. He is so moved by the futuristic pop of "Racey Lacey" and "Long Hot Summer" that he quotes Plato, Wilde, and Racine, and compares the album to both As You Like It and Catherine Millet's pornographic memoir La Vie Sexuelle De Catherine M"

"Cheryl... is forthright in her opinion. "Worra load of fuckin' shite. He sounds mental".

Now, to google we go!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22girls+aloud%22+chemistry+racine+plato&btnG=Search&meta=

Ding ding ding: http://cookham.blogspot.com/2005_12_11_cookham_archive.html

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

revenge is sweet?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

posting this on ILM is postively sub-Petridishian.

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

To make it clear: I've got nothing but love for Marcello, but I just thought this was far too... well, yeah... to not post.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHA i'm sure marcello will love this actually. i'm sure he didn't write the review with La Tweedy in mind.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

In terms of the relationship between the mainstream press, the blogosphere and the actually-completely-oblivious pop stars they're writing about, this is a genuinely significant moment. Because I can't think of a moment when this has actually happened before.

The funniest thing is that Petridis is asking Cheryl Tweedy who was, frankly guaranteed to say that, as opposed to asking Brian Higgins who would (probably) have gleefully agreed with everything Marcello had to say. Purely to boost his own reputation if nothing else.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

In other words, it's Broadsheet Press 1, Blogs 0. Despite the blogs dinking the ball round the opposition defenders, with all sorts of humiliating tricks, without actually finding the net when it mattered.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

This = hoofing ball up to big lad, obv.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a basketball player now?

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello is probably my favourite writer ever, so you can guess whose reputation gets diminished here (and I love GA).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

i hope you mean music writer.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a basketball player now?
-- Eppy (epp...), May 17th, 2006. (Eppy)

yes, and you need to start working a little harder on the offensive boards, chief....we're not getting nearly enough easy put-backs if we want to contend down the stretch in the playoffs....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of which, does Rasheed Wallace have a music blog? I'd totally read his stuff..

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

"He sounds mental"

Out of the mouths of babes...

― David Orton (scarlet), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nice thread, Dom.

Somehow we now need to get Marcello interviewing Brian Higgins and discussing the GQ piece. Anyone have xenomania's contact info?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome all around.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

It kind of makes Petridis seem like the kid who couldn't manage to make friends with one person he though was really cool, although he tried, like, he'd agree with them and everything but it was like they were too cool to care and probably laughing about him behind his back, the snobbish twat, so when he runs into a mutual acquaintance he's all 'hey, you know what that freak [x] says about you?'. Sadly. Maybe that's a bad comparison? You can tell he was expecting that reaction, though: was it a masochistic kind of internalised anti-intellectualism that prompted him to do it it, I wonder. Maybe he's attempting to diffuse his own interior guilt at taking Girls Aloud seriously by transferring it all to Carlin as an extreme example of the tendency? Maybe he just thinks it's funny, I dunno.

I'd like to think, though, that he's using it to illustrate the best thing about writing about pop (well, what i think is the best thing anyway): what Cheryl Tweedy thinks about what M Carlin writes doesn't matter, what Brian Higgins thinks about what M Carlin writes doesn't matter. They don't own what Girls Aloud means, their opinion about Girls Aloud is... okay maybe as valid as a consumer's, but certainly not any more. M Carlin, and us lot, aren't involved in the early-stage construction of Girls Aloud, only the later-stage bit where Girls Aloud finally takes shape in our minds - there'd be something awfully hollow and unsatisfying about it if what we individually end up seeing is just what was originally intended. (which I'm why I'm glad Petridis didn't ask Higgins: it would be horrible disappointing if he did agree with Carlin, 'yes that was what i meant all along'.) I mean, this just seems like common sense to me?

― permanent revolution (cis), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

the end of b*n w*tson's book on zappa is like this moment drawn out in terrible brilliant painful relief. best part of the book.

also, is this surprising? marcello's shtick has always been b*n w*tsonish in that regard. i'd pay to read about what tweedy thinks about lots of music tho, maybe even more than marcello (simply because i've read less tweedy than marcello) and what she thinks obv. matters, not least becuz it gets to affect what she gets to make and sell by the bucketload, which is more than most of us can claim.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

also i mean yeah marcello's take on racey lacey is... odd... compared to what i get out of it.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the bottom line: Petri-dish is a talentless fucking cunt. Thank you, come again.

― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

Boy, y'all sure write about "girls aloud" alot here...all I know is that pointer sisters cover of "jump" is a fun little vomit.

― astronautagogo (astronautagogo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

How's 1984 working out for you, dude?

― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh fucking no

― Aaron A, Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

who is ben watson?

― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Somehow we now need to get Marcello interviewing Brian Higgins and discussing the GQ piece

MARCELLO DON'T POST ON THIS THREAD, JUST MAKE THIS HAPPEN

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

Y'all managed to read the Girls Aloud blog entry? Loada shite seems pretty dead-on.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

loada shite = the idea of asking Girls Aloud about their own music

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 18 May 2006 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

Cis completely OTM, as usual.

Having said that, viewing Girls Aloud as some kind of high-cultural art-pop project is all very well, but when it leads to them releasing bloody "Models" of all things as a single (I bet it misses the top 10), you wonder if the people that insist on the inclusion of bland-by-comparison but unit-shifting ballads as singles (that ensure that more albums get made with the quasi-avant pop-art on them) don't know more than the rest of us combined.

I love Marcello's diversions and allusions, because pop IS like a web where everything connects and can be contextualised in this way and while I'm not in Marcello's league, that's what I've always tried to do as a writer.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent news! All good publicity for the blog and the book! More hits, more readers! (I wondered what had provoked the recent steep increase in CoM hits)

Cheers, Pet!!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

I know I should've let Marcello have the last word here, but when I first read this 2 weeks back, I nearly e-mailed it to you but thought you might not get a chuckle out of it.

Also, what's wrong with 'Models'?

― BARMS, Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Models" would be invisible on the radio, that's why.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

You totally got pwned, Marcello. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

― The Notorious ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

fuck off you ugly zit face

― seen your pic now and know you're an ugly cunt, Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

Next month in GQ: Conor McNicholas asks Rachel Stevens' opinion on Robin Carmody's thesis outlining the direct relationship between Come And Get It, the post-war decline of the Liberal Party and Oundle Public School.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

lolololololololol

― The Notorious ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

I would still read magazines if they ran features like that.

― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

I once worked for a GP who had been to Oundle. He was a strange cove. Used to come to work in his pyjama jacket and at meetings was wont to ask questions such as: "What do you mean by 'what do you mean'?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

OMG MC, U BIN PWNED

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

Petridis has a weird thing about blogging... He seems to think it's all crap but can't help bringing it up, like in his Wiley review which was about the extreme disconnect between bloggers who liked grime and it's street fans or that review where he dissed bloggers takes on Bonny 'Prince' Billy. He obviously reads blogs a lot.

(M.C. was also obliquely referred to in a Sunday Times piece on Rachel Stevens as well if I remember rightly, and sorta dissed in the same way. Fuck these people and their lack of ambition.)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

this is probably the best thing that ever happened anywhere, ever.

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

ladies and gentlemen the dream we all dream of

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

What's with all the Petri-dish hate? He's a bit glib sometimes, but that hardly makes him history's greatest monster.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone got a link to that Rachel/S Times piece?

Don't be so silly, Henry. I'd be tempted to say this is a Margaret Hodge/BNP situation but that comparison would be unfortunate.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

It makes him a shitty writer, which is what he's being criticised for.

― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

i think interviewers should show people bits of writing about them more often. if ever i get to interview tony blairs i'll be sure to take a print-out from k-punk.

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

x-post I think he's pretty entertaining, and writes well for his intended audience. His appearances on list shows as a talking head are pretty irksome though- is he, perhaps, the new Stuart Maconie?

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

a less funny stuart maconie.

he's not *that* bad. he's not caroline sullivan.

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

a less funny stuart maconie

How narrowly does that spiral spin?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

What's with all the Petri-dish hate? He's a bit glib sometimes, but that hardly makes him history's greatest monster.

Um, EVERYONE on this thread (board?) wants his job cos we all secretly (or not so secretly) really really really wanna be in the cool-boys-Guardian-"journalists-writing-about-journalists"-club?

I'd love to be Guardian's music editor. I'd also hate it, but there you go. What salary's he on, and for what? One lead review a week and three articles a month?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

he does refer to the blogosphere quite a lot, and that stirs up odd feelings among us ilx footsoldiers, kind of 'thanks for the attention' vs 'lol biter'.

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

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Chart pop is currently the genre above all others where real experimentation and risk-taking are occurring, and Kylie is the international exemplar of this trend.

that's right dad!

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Well it is a fairly common phrase - Stanley Spencer coined it, after all - and it seems clear to me that he's using it as a catch-all term rather than referring to my blog specifically.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

It's fucking clunky whatever it is. Also minus points for incorrect usage of 'deconstruct'.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

(Also, yes, Lex is right, these things can be related, and in fact it's not unusual for them to be, but when they are that is just a happy coincidence, and is nothing to do with any communicative properties within the music itself).

(also, I realise that this argument is all slightly warped by the effets of learned response...to some extent, our ears are taught from an early age that minor keys are sad, fast songs are happier, etc. Which I think is the basic reason these 'coincidental' relationships between intent and effect are so surprisinly common).

ding! so, not really surprising!

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if Scott Walker's read my piece on The Drift yet.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

No, if we're happy with the idea that we're all just pavlovian dogs when it comes to music appreciation. (xpost)

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

"Scott... is forthright in his opinion. "Worra load of fuckin' shite. He sounds mental".

(sorry)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

[sorry, to go back upthread a long way]

guiding the music policy of a major national paper

But surely AP does not do this in any way? I presume that the Guardian's music policy is at least as much driven by advertisers, and by cross-media sponsorship deals with radio / tv / festivals etc. Isn't the GMG really into that side of things? It looks from here like one of the least glamorous jobs in existence.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

No, if we're happy with the idea that we're all just pavlovian dogs when it comes to music appreciation. (xpost)
-- JimD (ji...), May 18th, 2006.

EITHER/OR?

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

It looks from here like one of the least glamorous jobs in existence.

ts interviewing famous musicians vs operating machine tools for nike

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

EITHER/OR?

My way or the highway! :-)

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

LOL
marcello clearly gets some sort of kick about quoting highbrow references for something like the sugababes or girls aloud when he knows most people would never in their right (or perhaps patronising) minds, ever sanely relate the two things

― lethalfizzle, Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

And that's why most people can't write abvout music as well as Marcello.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think you can just hand-wave away lyrics as a carrier for specific content. There is a reason people pick "The Lady In Red" for wedding first dances, and it is not unrelated to the thoughts and feelings of writer and performer, I'd say.

There's also a reason people pick "One" for wedding first dances and it rather obviously doesn't have anything to do with lyrical content!

― Dan (I've Seen This Happen, Too) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Must be an American thing...I've never noticed "One" gaining last-dance status here. Unless you mean the Johnny Cash version.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

best erection section ever.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's absolutely an American thing, I think; I've seen it happen twice and heard about it multiple times from others. I'm usually not a big lyrics booster but I'm very glad my first dance with my wife wasn't a creepy suicide pact song with abusive overtones.

― Dan (Oh, Americanpaws) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

more of a 'still haven't found what i'm looking for' guy huh?

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

well, im half way through MC's GA review, and its very interesting, and i have to marvel at the fact he was that inspired by GA to write that much and that much in depth about it.

― lethalfizzle, Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

"And now the couple's first dance as husband and wife; 'Flashback' by Ministry."

― Dan (WUV) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha (google lyrics search is my friend)

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have never been to a single wedding where "Volare" wasn't the first song played. lol guido stereotypes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

When I was at school, the last dance number at end-of-term school discos more often than not was "Angelo" by the Brotherhood of Man, which for the benefit of American/young readers is a piece of mid-'70s MoR sub-Abba cheese about two people who elope together and then commit suicide. Cheered me up no end as a 13-year-old, I must say.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

There's also a reason people pick "One" for wedding first dances and it rather obviously doesn't have anything to do with lyrical content!

I was sure Dan was talking about the Metallica song here.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

What a good job Pan's People weren't around in 1988 to offer their characteristically "literal" interpretation of the Metallica "One"!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

It would have had them rolling in the aisles.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Scott... is forthright in his opinion. "Worra load of fuckin' shite. He sounds mental".

(sorry)

-- mark grout (mark.grou...), May 18th, 2006.

hahaha brilliant.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm very glad my first dance with my wife wasn't a creepy suicide pact song with abusive overtones

Instead you chose other Depeche Mode songs. Oh wait. *runs away*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

it was a touch of class putting the quote in front of racist spice, the one everyone's most conflicted about in the first place. nicola, the blogger's choice, might have liked the piece.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not conflicted about cheryl! i love her!

(also she's the one you can rely on to be mouthy and sweary)

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

And racist, you forgot racist.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

quite contrary, that lex.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

SHE WAS CLEARED OF BEING A RACIST!!!!

something which to my knowledge CERTAIN WEBSITES have not been!!!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

she's going out with a GAY BLACK FOOTBALLER

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I foresee other problems.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

she's going out with a GAY BLACK FOOTBALLER

DO YOU SEE???

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Instead you chose other Depeche Mode songs. Oh wait. *runs away*

That wasn't our first dance! And anyway it was the DJ who wanted to play "Master And Servant", not us.

― Dan (TANGO TANGO TANGO) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

The people in Girls Aloud have distinct personalities? Huh.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Besides his blog and ILM, who else does Marcello write? Excuse my ignorance.

― Makrugaik (makrugaik), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

The people in Girls Aloud have distinct personalities? Huh.

one would expect, what with them being human beings and all!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

The people in Girls Aloud have distinct personalities? Huh.

The racist, the miserable one, and the other three.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, I'm sure you can think of any number of bands where the members don't have distinct personalities!

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

none of girls aloud are miserable, dom. nicola is shy but shy != miserable.

~~indie boys don't have personalities~~ indie boys have the same personality and it is a shit one

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

why would you be miserable if you were in girls aloud?! there would be no reason.

being in girls aloud = far more of a dream job than being grau music editor!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Can someone summarize this thread for me? I don't know if the "heart-throb" in the title refers to Marcello or some UK journalist I've never heard of.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

i prefer GA as robots anyway, now. the programming has been broken and they have started to adopt personalities, but it's a slow, often painful process. i still haven't seen the documentary where they whinge about how hard their jobs are.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

indie boys have the same personality and it is a shit one

Some indie boy broke Lex's heart and he still hasn't gotten over it, methinks.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Correction: Besides his blog and ILM, who else does Marcello write 'for'? Excuse my ignorance.

― Makrugaik (makrugaik), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I think that sometimes lyrics matter in fragments. Like, ppl hear a song, love the music, and find some lyrical hook that they can associate with it and file it away there, instead of listening to the whole lyric. "One" might not be the best example for that, because some of the creepy parts are really quite prominent and hard-to-miss if you've heard the song a few times, but I still don't think it's entirely impossible that some couples hear "One love/we get to share it/leaves you baby if you
/don't care for it" or "love is a temple/love the higher law", associate that with liking the tune and, hey, presto. As I said, "One" is a bit of a dodgy example for that, but there are quite a few other instances where creepy/tragic/whatever songs are appropriated by the public at large for roles completley different than what the whole lyrics would make you think of, and I don't think the reason for that is always "lyrics don't matter" so much as that sometimes lyrics matter more as slogans and fragments than as whole texts.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry for that wonky formatting there.

Neil Hannon's first wedding dance was to "One", he said something along the lines of "it's harsh truth" or something in an interview. Creepy!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

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