No one wrote better lyrics that articulate what it feels like to be jerked around by love than Holland-Dozier-Holland did. And I have run to the Supremes when being jerked around by love. But I can't imagine anyone listening to "You Keep Me Hangin' On" in order to augment a feeling of melancholy - more like to feel exhilaration. A friend of mine would have me bring my Supremes anthology whenever she gave a party so that we could play "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Love Is Here And Now You're Gone" back to back, one reason being that they're excellent dance songs but also each has a break where the music stops and Diana speaks her anguish. So when the breaks come all the dancers stop their dancing and start miming hilariously as if they're heartbroken heroines from the silent films.
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Date: 2008-05-07 02:27 pm (UTC)