Pulp aren't really all that
I love Pulp but "Something Changed" annoys me as it's one of those songs which messes about with time and makes no sense (like Bragg's "New England", "I was 21 years when I wrote this but I'm 22 now and I won't be for long", well were you 21 or 22? Why would you write "I'm 22 now" if you were only 21?).
In "Something Changed" Jarvis writes...
"I wrote this song two hours before we met"
Then later...
"Why did you touch my hand and softly say, stop asking questions which don't matter anyway"
So, he wrote the song before he'd met her (and even knew her name) but she'd touched his hand and spoken to him? Eh?
Other songs which are guilty of this sort of time travel lyrics include "Sk8er Boi" by Avril Lavigne and "Up The Junction" by Squeeze and it annoys me, which I realise probably says more about me than the songwriters.
I love Pulp but "Something Changed" annoys me as it's one of those songs which messes about with time and makes no sense (like Bragg's "New England", "I was 21 years when I wrote this but I'm 22 now and I won't be for long", well were you 21 or 22? Why would you write "I'm 22 now" if you were only 21?).
In "Something Changed" Jarvis writes...
"I wrote this song two hours before we met"
Then later...
"Why did you touch my hand and softly say, stop asking questions which don't matter anyway"
So, he wrote the song before he'd met her (and even knew her name) but she'd touched his hand and spoken to him? Eh?
Other songs which are guilty of this sort of time travel lyrics include "Sk8er Boi" by Avril Lavigne and "Up The Junction" by Squeeze and it annoys me, which I realise probably says more about me than the songwriters.
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