I have an old audio tape that has a collection of Fred
Astaire classics on one side and Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumours on the other. I played them both today while I was
third-coating the corner cupboard, and the contrast was interesting.
I think it reasonable to assume that the best of popular
romantic songs accurately reflect contemporary attitudes to the business of
romantic love, so compare and contrast the confident and comfortable…
Oh, but you’re lovely
Never, never change
Keep that breathless
charm
Won’t you please
arrange it
’Cos I love you
Just the way you look
tonight
…with the cynical, ascerbic…
Thunder only happens
when it’s raining
Players only love you
when they’re playing
They’re both typical of their time, and how times changed in
a mere thirty years.
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