It takes a lot of talent with very little ego to be the guy who writes all the fictional "hit songs" for TV and movies - working under the confines of someone else's vision and still making stuff that legitimately is good enough to be a hithttps://twitter.com/idislikestephen/status/1245487957106216967 …
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How good at the craft do you have to be to sit down and say "I'm going to write a credible #1 boyband hit today, for the purpose of delivering a buttsex joke"
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I do have to say the Josie and the Pussycats movie is really underrated, all the people who didn't see it don't know what an incisive parody of the music industry and LA culture it was for its time And the *music* from that movie is fucking awesome
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Unlike the other incarnations of Josie and the Pussycats - the OG was all this elaborately produced Motown stuff, and the Riverdale version is in the same tradition - Schlesinger totally nailed the feel that these are just teenagers jamming in their garage who stumbled on fame
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The Pussycats' big viral hit, "Three Small Words", is an extremely simple and predictable rock song, but it's just really really good, you totally imagine finding the CD somewhere and never stopping playing it The kind of song everyone thinks they could write but no one does
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I could totally believe it was a real band, he nails the nuance of how "Three Small Words" is just them jamming their feelings out in a garage and then their big hit after getting signed is more complex and actually about something ("Pretend to be Nice")
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It's like the subtlety of "That Thing You Do", that you completely buy that this was a perfect song everyone fell in love with and yet you know why these guys never did it again, that this was an accident
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It's the kind of lyrics where you know they're perfect because he just kind of stumbled into them, the rhyme for the next line just fell into place
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I feel like the Bob's Burgers music is in this tradition - it's inherently silly and comedic, lyrically, but I'd pay money for a 7" mix of the fictional disco hit "Hot Pants Rain Dance" AHEM,
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With Hot Fudge Car Wash as the B side
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