Prince
"Batdance" is less a song than a sound collage built to promote the 1989 Batman film, splicing dance-funk grooves with dialogue…
media spectacle identity/duality commercialism and tie-in culture
Bill Withers
A wounded plea for a fresh start with a partner whose affection is unreliable, built almost entirely around one conditional…
conditional love emotional ambivalence denial as coping
Paul Simon
A reunion single from Simon and Garfunkel that reads as a bitter anti-nostalgia song, dismantling the idea of small-town…
small-town disillusionment loss of faith suppressed violence
Fairport Convention
This is the Fairport Convention arrangement of the old English/Scottish murder ballad about an adulterous tryst between a…
class transgression sexual desire and consequence honor and violence