Today has been a bit chemicalsadstupid and slowmopey so I'm spending the evening listening to all the song-poems I can. They always cheer me up.
I don't think I'm ever laughing at the people who wrote these words, no matter how ridiculous and ham-fisted they get. I love that someone came up with a song, wanted to share it and decided to pay to do so. As opposed to songwriters and musicians (we know that they ARE songwriters or musicians), we know nothing about them, for the most part. I love the hack-job of so many of the session musicians, clearly doing dozens of these songs they may well hate in an afternoon, using the rock and roll cliches, feeling just a little off, in a way you can barely place. I love the mixture of enthusiasm and disinterest, which seems to have had their conventional roles (within the pop song world) reversed. Song poems always cheer me up.