When Pop Goes Meta #1

B-side of "When love breaks down"




attacking an obscure to 97% of his listeners country singer - never quite figured out the point.



another one whose point I never quite saw - Paddy here is attacking Springsteen for his supposedly constricted range of songwriting topics (erm, hello - Nebraska? Born in the USA?) - "some things hurt much more than cars and girls"....   well, you have written your fair share of songs about girls Paddy man, haven't you? ... Also - what does actually hurt more than "girls" (meaning, love, heartbreak, unrequited etc?) or is a better subject for pop? There's death, but yeah the travails of the heart seem like pretty high up there on the list.



About Abba and the appeal of Agnetha

There's several other songs on Jordan that are about music, pop, specific artists (Elvis, if I recall right), including one where Paddy says - on the subject of music for dancing -  "I'd rather be the Fred Astaire of words". Which is quite witty admittedly.

Wasn't there a whole unreleased, or written but un-rerecorded concept album about Michael Jackson?