God brought this to mind this morning. I totally forgot about this song. It all started when I saw an Australian girl call someone “mate.” I thought…Aw, she’s so cute…she calls “friends” “mates.” But mates are people you, you know, and friends are…
and then, poof! The worst song of all time pops into my head. “And I’ll Be. Your. Friend.” etc etc. I sure hope this youtube embedding thing works now. It’s always broken my blog in the past. Let’s try:
Yeah, it’s almost painful to listen too. It’s the perfect marriage of overly slow music and lyrics that are way too simple/dumb/intimate/immoral. Can you believe it was a #1 hit? And you wonder why I didn’t listen to secular music from 1986-1989.
