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#30DaySongChallenge - Day 25
May. 20th, 2020 07:59 amDay 25: A song you love but...
...would be embarrassed if it started playing loudly from your laptop at a coffee shop. (You could call this a "guilty pleasure" but I dislike that term.)
...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
In principle, I despair of this song. It was originally The Spice Girls that struck me as the greatest existential threat to rock music by virtue of their extremely phenomenal popularity, but for a while there it looked like they might be a fluke. But then Britney showed up with this, and music that sounds basically like this has remained The Sound of Pop Music for over twenty years since. My lifetime of Popular Music = Rock suddenly came to an end here.
And yet, in its own way, the wave of Young Girl Pop that started here was great, and deeply appealing. I objected more to what it represented, but enjoyed hearing it, at least in those early days of it. Still, I feel like liking this sutff gives people the wrong idea about me.
[I was very tempted to choose Sugar Baby Love by The Rubettes for this day because that is a song I really really love, but I wouldn't be at all embarrassed or guilty to be overheard listening to that one!]
...would be embarrassed if it started playing loudly from your laptop at a coffee shop. (You could call this a "guilty pleasure" but I dislike that term.)
...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
In principle, I despair of this song. It was originally The Spice Girls that struck me as the greatest existential threat to rock music by virtue of their extremely phenomenal popularity, but for a while there it looked like they might be a fluke. But then Britney showed up with this, and music that sounds basically like this has remained The Sound of Pop Music for over twenty years since. My lifetime of Popular Music = Rock suddenly came to an end here.
And yet, in its own way, the wave of Young Girl Pop that started here was great, and deeply appealing. I objected more to what it represented, but enjoyed hearing it, at least in those early days of it. Still, I feel like liking this sutff gives people the wrong idea about me.
[I was very tempted to choose Sugar Baby Love by The Rubettes for this day because that is a song I really really love, but I wouldn't be at all embarrassed or guilty to be overheard listening to that one!]
