be my little baby....
for anyone who ever owned the dirty dancing soundtrack and listened to it until the tape wore out...for anyone who went through an "oldies" phase....or for anyone who enjoys the history and deconstruction of classic pop songs....this article from the salon.com masterpiece series is fabulous: "how the genius of phil spector and ronnie spector met and created a song of magnificent carnality." The ultimate jones, if you will...There's generosity in a glance, just as there's generosity -- a willingness to lay yourself bare -- in the first line Ronnie sings: "The night we met I knew I needed you so." It's both pleading and brazenly confident, a declarative sentence with a question mark built in. (The pause she inserts between "I" and "needed" represents the terrifying but essential gulf she needs to cross even just to get started.) Ronnie was a woman, not a girl, when she cut the record; like a method actress, she's playing a character that isn't herself, but must certainly contain elements of herself.
fix your jones for the ronettes @ salon masterpiece
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