The Rupert Holmes 1970s frozen-drink love song comes to life in the cyberage.
Adnan, 32, said: "I still find it hard to believe that Sweetie, who wrote such wonderful things, is actually the same woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years".
Doesn't he really mean:
It was my own lovely ladyAnd she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."
Ah, but that would have required a happy ending. Cheers!
HT: AS.
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The song always was a little creepy. All that time in a relationship and they never saw each other order a pina colada? As Kevin Murphy remarked, "what? Did they always panic and order manhattans or something?" And didn't they have a responsibility to communicate some dissatisfaction with the relationship? And even though the song is supposed to be a an optimistic ode to Love Reborn, isn't it human nature that each will always carry a bit of resentment that the other set out to cheat on the other and thus act out a ton of passive-aggressive behaviors and recriminations as a result?
I'll tell you what song always creeps me out: "Lady in Red". How people could use that at weddings, I'll never know. Guy has hot wife, guy gets wasted out in public, hot wife has to take care of drunk guy (and we all know there's nothing more attractive than a fall-down drunk man!), drunk guy still thinks his wife is hot. The end. WTF?
K Street:
I always thought of it as a classic '70s song intimately (so to speak) describing that "anything goes" era, but with a little moral at the end contradicting what has gone before. A "Crunchy Con" song, if you like. (If it wasn't such an earworm ...)
But in the days of Match.com, it doesn't surprise me that life is imitating ... well, craft. (It's tough to call "Escape," the actual title of the song which everyone forgets, "art.")
Oh, good lord, this song was all over the radio when I was in high school, and I thought it had been humanely put down, or at least sent to the 70'S Jukebox From Hell.
(Maybe I could put this song in the demons thread you have going above :-)).
Paraphrasing from The Waterboy:
"Escape is THE DEVIL!!!"
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