{"id":3022,"date":"2012-02-24T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2012-02-24T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:54:36","slug":"sigh-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2012\/02\/24\/sigh-3\/","title":{"rendered":"*sigh*"},"content":{"rendered":"

After hearing Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night<\/a>” on the very short drive to drop off Ava at school this morning, I was totally incensed and all fired up to write a blog post about how, back in my<\/em> day, songs weren’t such steaming pieces of shit. And if you haven’t heard Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night,” you can take it on good authority that the song is, in fact, a steaming piece of shit.
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\nSo anyhow, I fire up Google and find the list of Top 40 songs for February 1977. Here are the lyrics for the #1 song:<\/p>\n

Um-hm-hm… aah ah ah…
\nDon’t leave me this way
\nI can’t survive, can’t stay alive
\nWithout your love, oh baby
\nDon’t leave me this way, no
\nI can’t exist, I’ll surely miss your tender kiss
\nDon’t leave me this way
\n(A broken man with empty hands
\nOh baby please, don’t leave me this way)
\nAaah baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
\nNow come on down and do what you gotta do
\n(Now come on girl and do what you gotta do)
\nYou started this fire down in my soul
\nNow can’t you see it’s burning out of control
\nCome on (now) satisfy the need in me
\nOnly your good lovin’ can set me free… hey
\nDon’t, don’t you leave me this way, no
\nDon’t you understand I’m at your command
\nOh baby please, please don’t leave me this way
\nAaah baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
\nNow come on down and do what you gotta do
\n(Now come on girl and do what you gotta do)
\nYou started this fire down in my soul
\nNow can’t you see it’s burning out of control
\nCome on (now) satisfy the need in me
\nOnly your good lovin’ can set me free… hey
\nNeed your lovin’ baby, need need your love right now…
\nYour love is so important to me… got to have it…
\n(‘Cause it would be wrong
\nTo string me along a love so true)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given my druthers, I’d still <\/em>prefer my pre-tween daughter listen to Thelma Houston’s (no relation) song than Katy Perry’s. Fact of the matter, of course, is that the Top 40 has been a lyrical wasteland for as long as the Top 40 has existed (two notable exceptions in the 02\/77 top 10, however, are Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” and Foreigner’s “Cold As Ice.” There are no notable exceptions in this month’s list.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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