To: Sir Elton John<\/p>\n
From: Mitch Berg<\/p>\n
Re: Fabric choices<\/p>\n
\u00a0Sir John:<\/p>\n
While acknowledging your record as a master of popular songcraft – especially on the albums of your heyday, like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road<\/em> – and allowing that you certainly had a way with writing an amazing hook or two, I feel compelled to note that your longtime lyricist, Bernie Taupin, could be fairly described as “a bit over the top” sometimes, to the point where some of the songs make, regrettably, no sense at all.<\/p>\n For example: in your classic long-form pop song “Tiny Dancer”, the chorus – as catchy a bit of pop treacle as ever graced the airwaves – starts out wonderfully.\u00a0 It is, indeed, a memorable confection, scooting from hook to hook with gay abandon (so to speak).\u00a0<\/p>\n But then comes the line “lay me down in sheets of leather<\/em>” – and the air just zips out of the whole enterprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n Leather sheets sound troublesome; on hot days, they must be legendarily uncomfortable; even under ideal conditions, they must be sticky and rife with friction.<\/p>\n Please clarify and, if necessary, have a word with Mr. Taupin.<\/p>\n That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To: Sir Elton John From: Mitch Berg Re: Fabric choices \u00a0Sir John: While acknowledging your record as a master of popular songcraft – especially on the albums of your heyday, like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – and allowing that you certainly had a way with writing an amazing hook or two, I feel compelled to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}