I bought Holiday a couple years ago in a record store because I saw it concluded with a song that probably involved Stephin Merritt singing about X, something which sounds great to me; I was hoping for some hooky seductful piece of pop candy to reverse the social chilling I was experiencing as I settled into college. I was surprised to find, however, that the track is in fact a song in the style of the seduction poet (I think immediately of To His Coy Mistress). Everything about this gentle but insistent track is cloying.
The track, though, borrows heavily on my favorite Pulp song, “Disco 2000″ (outstanding video here). The Pulp song details the mindset of a frustrated adolescent meeting up with his childhood playmate who has blossomed into a beautiful woman. Similarly, Merritt recalls specific details of their playtimes (take note all you who write Craigslist “missed connections” missives, don’t be this girl) as a lead-into a discussion of taking the almighty sex drug in his company. His hook, though? It’s a Romeo and Juliet situation. Maybe baby can come on over and blame the drugs for what happens?
I am willing to bet Stephin doesn’t own any Pulp records. Good things get found twice.
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