What Are You Listening To?

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Inspiration for this perhaps.

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Until 4, the local alternative station is playing 80s music, commercial free, for their resurrection sunday show…

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Yes. They more or less admitted it last year (well denied it and boasted about it) and this year the Spanish vote was particularly important for them. Their social media accounts are all going “see? Those countries that recognise Palestine? It’s just the elites and the ordinary people love us and our beautiful country Israel! They gave us maximum points in the popular vote!”

Not that I saw it anyway because they kicked Russia out but didn’t kick Israel out. This won’t go away though. The Eurovision is sponsored by “Moroccan” oil (actually Israeli) by the way. I’m sure the EBU will discover their spine when the sponsorship ends. Currently they are saying “this is fine and we have the best voting integrity” but nobody can possibly believe that.

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I’m gonna spoiler this one, because well, once you’ve thought of this you can’t unthink it. And maybe you’d rather not.

I’m talking about The Zombies - She’s Not There. A song I heard so many times growing up. And just thought was a fun song.

I never realized the lyrics are so dark:

Well, no one told me about her
What could I do?
Well, no one told me about her
Though they all knew

But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How would I know? Why should I care?
Please don’t bother trying to find her
She’s not there!

And everything in the song is in the past tense. The way she looked, her voice was, her eyes were, etc.

I feel like I’ve ruined one of my childhood songs because now all I can think is “Yes, you’ve told us she’s not there, now where did you put the body?”

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Hmmm. I always thought it was song about a guy who loved a woman and everyone told him it wouldn’t work out, and yep, it didn’t work out. He’s remembering everything about her: the way she looked, the way she spoke, but also that she’s no longer around.

A lot of those 60s songs about women typically seemed very much in the same vein: dude loves a woman and she doesn’t live him back.

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I was late tuning in but CBS is showing an evening with Brandi Carlile and Elton John.

If you hurry you can catch the finale.

I’m not a fan of Brandi but boy is she talented and Elton can still deliver the goods.

How many pairs of sunglasses Elton? Between 10 and 15 thousand.

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