Blank Expressions

Which brings us on to this calculated sure fire summer hit that wallows in its pseudo 80s largess. There’s just too many collaborators here for it to work and would be a far better record in the hands of one artist. The fact Harris gets the main credit for this is laughable as his DJ and production skills are hardly tested here in ‘Prince wannabe scores Miami Vice’ mode. No doubt it will achieve its goal of being the sound of Summer 2017 but I barely remember it 5 minutes after listening. 

One way of raising snooker’s profile in the US i suppose. 

Above is the list for the BBC Awards for Song of the Year 2016. (with additional facts added by me). OK I might be slightly pedantic that a good number of the songs were released in the last 3 months of 2015 and were still riding high in the charts in 2016, I’ll give you that. Yet only 2 songs (One Dance and Can’t stop the feeling) on the list were released after February 2016. Has pop music really been that bad for the last 9 months?

In December 1963 a shellshocked USA was still coming to terms with the morass of life post JFK.  1963 was when the Sixties began for most, the babyboomers were becoming teenagers. The Beatles and the Stones’ fledgling pop careers were about to go meteoric. Bob was Freewheelin’, the Brothers Wilson surfing with their dentist cousin Al. Ronnie, Lala and Phil had an unbeatable wall of sound, and that’s just scratching the surface. It really was music’s time. ‘Oh what a night!’ sang the Four Seasons of that very month in retrospect. Yet this was number 1 for FOUR weeks in the USA. (No Belgian has repeated the feat since)

Here’s what it should sound like. 

It was the 60s

East Coast sunsets 

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

That time Roxy Music got called into the headmasters office. 

Working class hipster? 

Women in pop before MTV

Suicide Squad currently beating the last Star Wars film in terms of ridiculously lengthy hyperbole.  That I very much doubt there’s not much footage left to actually watch. It’s just setting itself up for a fall. 

Unsure of what to do with a those that are usually on the under-card

It’s going to be replaced by arrogant, set-in-his-ways, ultra-defensive Dutchman this time next year.