Love Will Keep us Together By Captain and Tenille
If there is one thing that distinguishes women who really love music from men who really love music it is that the women are far less likely to be purists about it. They are willing to like a song simply because they like it and let's have no nonsense about authenticity or fine parsing of the lyrics. And, you know, they are right. Put your purist attitudes away for three minutes and just enjoy what is a wonderful little song.
If there is one thing that distinguishes women who really love music from men who really love music it is that the women are far less likely to be purists about it. They are willing to like a song simply because they like it and let's have no nonsense about authenticity or fine parsing of the lyrics. And, you know, they are right. Put your purist attitudes away for three minutes and just enjoy what is a wonderful little song.
The opposite of anticipatory nostalgia is the unabashed happy song and this fits the bill perfectly. Well, almost. For the most part smooth, clean girls in Indian cotton stood out from their peers because they were forward oriented. They saw themselves as women in the making rather than as girls. But no matter how she might set out to be, some kinds of pure blissful happiness win out and here it is.
I hinted above that there was a flaw in the ointment. Here it is:
Young and beautifulNo smooth, clean girl in Indian cotton old was ever so hopelessly blissed out by thoughts of love and happiness that she could miss the darkness hiding here. I believe that one of the things that distinguishes the way women listen to music (and the reason they don't feel the need to be purists about music) is that women are willing to be satisfied if the music fits the mood of the time. The darkness was noted and then excluded as not worth worrying about right now.
Someday your looks will be gone
When the others turn you off
Who'll be turning you on.
And she still has painful memories of the boyfriend she had in college who sneered at her musical taste and how he never heard this without launching into a tedious rant about the supposed superiority of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division.
If a smooth, clean girl hears this song today when others are present, she will respond with a bemused smile. If she is alone, she'll crank the volume and sing along. If the Joy Division song comes along and others are present she'll say something positive about it. If she is alone, she'll turn it off.
The series starts here.
The next song is here.
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