Cuando comencé a leer este artículo, pensé que era otro juego de ironías como esos de Thought Catalog que tanto nos gustan. Y si, tiene algo de eso, pero también está tan lleno de erudición pop, que se rompe en las costuras. En especial los fragmentos en los que se argumenta la trascendencia de Call Me Maybe:
“Call Me Maybe” crept quickly into my safe playlist, but in a very unique way: it can be deployed at any point on the timeline with dependably good results. An equal amount of small children and grandparents actively engage with the music, and people in between — high schoolers, college kids, people my age, and Gen X’ers — get it too. The quiet opening bars of the song often drift in uneventfully, but when the energy picks up at the first “Your stare was holdin,’” true appreciators begin to flaunt their lyrical knowledge, and by “HEY” everyone who’s not in the buffet line is either singing along or smiling and learning the words from their relatives who are already in this wonderful, popular club.
Durante momentos, esta disertación de Trent Wolbe roza a los monólogos de Patrick Bateman en American Psycho –It’s an epic meditation on intangibility.
Y si, Call Me Maybe será una de esas canciones que serán recordadas en la próxima década. Es el resumen, el epitome del sonido de finales de los 00’s. Maybe.
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