Stargurl – A Walk With Your Favorite Girl
Genre: Classic Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Pop
It’s hard to say without sounding flippant, but the world has produced a lot of great music made by people uninterested in the manner in which they were about to present it. Most of them believed in the purity of the music itself.
For some, looking to find ways of promoting songs outside of simply playing them and releasing them to the world cheapens the whole effect of music. They’d rather rely on some miracle, some magic spell, an incredible event.
The fact is that since the dawn of entertainment as an industry, large companies and their audiences have shown a willingness to pay for charisma. This is the reason why some of the great singers of the past, also blessed with a large personality, became movie stars, talk show hosts, and radio DJs as a side hustle.
Stargurl’s A Walk With Your Favorite Girl could just be an exercise in excellently-crafted pop music. But, thankfully, it’s also a window into the thoughts of an eccentric, intriguing performer, the kind of singer that could be given a television series or could earn millions of social media followers.
The Zombies – Love You While I Can
Similar artists: The Lovin Spoonful, The Troggs, Donovan, The Turtles, The Animals
Film studios assume that people won’t pay to watch old movies made in black and white. They assume that the quality of the pictures won’t matter. Modern audiences will gladly pay for a mediocre film that came out recently instead.
When you wonder how someone has granted approval and financing for one of the many unremarkable movies stuck on your Netflix or HBO account, remember that entertainment gatekeepers are practically educated to sniff out the latest trends.
In movies, as in music, trends have a short life span. Few of them survive beyond their meager lifespan. They remain, usually, in the public conscience as bizarre one-hit wonders or summer movies, the kinds of things that nobody wants to admit to having enjoyed.
Trends are temporary, craft is permanent. When the dust finally has time to settle, it separates the chancers from the true greats. The Zombies, a legendary group that earned a large chunk of its reputation back in the 1960s, is one of those groups.
They may be as respected as The Beach Boys or The Beatles. But that’s not enough for these Baroque-pop visionaries, as can be heard in Love you while I can. The Zombies can still lay claim to being able to dream up some of the most beautiful melodies in pop music. These are sounds that need no trends or gimmicks.
