Whitney’s mistaken identity, Prince’s craziest hit & more: Your weekly bop rewind
It’s the freakin’ weekend, baby!It’s been a great week for throwbacks; A League of Their Own is back, Follies is making a new debut, and conservatives are dragging public education back into the dark ages.In that spirit, it seems it may be the perfect time for a look back at the hits released this week in history.
As Jessie J famously shouted, “we need to take it back in time to when music made us all u-NITE!”From Beach Boy musin’ to some lady named Susan, here’s your weekly bop rewind:Okay, but hear us out.
It’s hard to argue that this doesn’t sound like repressed gay ideation of a more accepting future. Who among us didn’t think at one time or another while growing up, “Wouldn’t it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong?” Something about the softness of the song’s timbre and the wistful fantasy they’re dreaming of feels inherently just a little blessedly queer.Queerly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this list called a bop rewind.It’s wild to think that such a high-energy song — and one of Prince’s most famous — begins with a faux eulogy, but that’s just the kind of girl he was.
Prince’s flamboyance was nearly always set to a ten, and “Let’s Go Crazy” is far from an exception. This jamming funk/rock/pop hybrid is a dance floor straight to the ears.Before The Ting Tings and their 95 Theses of misnomers, Whitney was telling the girls what her name certainly was not.
