#LORDE PURE HEROINE ALBUM DEMENSIONS HOW TO#

This pattern continues throughout the rest of the 20th century and into the present day. It helps that doo-wop is perhaps the easiest type of music to make - there are only two chord sequences, and all you need is a voice and the ability to tap your feet or click your fingers. Even more than its sister genre, rock'n'roll, doo-wop spoke to basically every ethnic group in America because they were all just kids feeling feelings incredibly intensely with basically no non-doo-wop outlets. When every single member of the Rainbows bursts into wordless wailing in the middle of ' Mary Lee' it SOUNDS like how losing Mary Lee FEELS.

This is the genre that was able to imbue nonsense words 'hey-nonny-ding-dong-a-ling-a-ling-a-lang' or ' rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-too' with more emotion than most bands are able to wring out of their entire discographies. When dude sings ' Church Bells May Ring' he makes campanology sound like the single most important part of existence. It often reminds me of the Midwestern emo-ish music I spent a large part of my own teen years listening to in terms of its urgency and overwhelming emotion. The most striking thing about doo-wop to me, is how desperateВ it is. You need to be at school with countless other kids your age, you need the freedom and the angst that comes from low levels of responsibility, and you need a certain level of disposable income to spend on cars and burgers and Penguins singles. And of course teenagers have been creating music forever but the concept of Teenager is a mostly economic one forged in post-war America. Yes, bobby-soxers loved Ol' Blue Eyes, but he was fucking thirty-one when he released his first album. The first, purest, form of Teen Music is doo-wop. I want to talk about Music For Teens throughout the decades, and why Pure Heroine doesn't work (for me) on that level. I feel I've spoken enough about the trajectory of music in the early 2010s that I don't need to go over the sparseness, the minimalism, in any case she's covered Blake, and so on and so forth. Turns out only listening to At The Drive In and Texas Is The Reason does not keep you up to date with the world of pop.

#LORDE PURE HEROINE ALBUM DEMENSIONS HOW TO#

Patsy said 'This is the #1 song in the world, how have you not heard it?' I didn't know how to respond. I was in the back of a van with my scout troop driving up the hill that takes you out of Hastings back towards London. I actually remember the first time I heard 'Royals'. The Black Eyed Peas have gone on hiatus, signalling the spiritual end of Large Stupid Pop Songs. James Blake and the xx have made it okay to strip songs down to their essences rather than slathering them in layer upon layer of pop ear candy. Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I got bad news in the end of December and decided to self-destruct for a wee while instead of writing.

Lorde pure heroine album demensions