Depsite being a sucker for songs and songwriting, one of my more recent fascinations has been songs with very few words. Songs like "Tequila" "Search for Delicious" by Panda Bear manage to say a lot with very little; rather than dragging on and on, the message is simple: "it's good to be a little scared." "Near Dark," above, is an awesome example too. The repeating "I can't take my eyes off you" usually expresses fascination, but in this dark, emotive context it might equally imply distrust. It's an amazingly complex message conveyed in seven words, and a great subversion of an overplayed trope in love songs. I'll call it "semantically dense" to really bring the academic fuckfacery.
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