Spotify:
spoti.fi/3tJVvf3 YouTube:
bit.ly/3eyGqbC This is a HIT!
"It's 12:45
Got your body on my mind
And in fifteen minutes
You might be the one
For the night"
You can see it, you can feel it!
Come on, you're in the club, you're sweating, maybe taking a breather at the bar and you see her across the room...
"When we get, when we get, get, get together"
Isn't that what it's all about? Getting together? After all, we're just animals, driven by sex, just ask Jeff Bezos.
Baby boomers might not realize that the mores of the sixties and seventies are history, women can and do make the first move now, they feel empowered, they know what they want and nothing is going to prevent them from getting it!
I can't say I check out every new David Guetta tune. But it was atop this playlist a guy sends me every week and usually it takes me just a matter of minutes to listen to the twenty-odd tracks, I'm skipping through the dreck, some of it even famous, but I let "Get Together" slip, and suddenly I realized that my body was moving, I WAS INTO IT!
You can like AC/DC. You can like Joni Mitchell. You can even like Social Distortion. AND YOU CAN STILL LIKE THIS!
That's one of the breakthroughs of Madonna, she taught us that pop wasn't always anathema.
Then again, today's pop? When Justin Bieber's inane "Peaches" is number one it's hard not to lose faith in the music business and today's youth. But "Get Together"?
"Peaches" is number two worldwide, but it is slipping in the U.S., and "Get Together" is...NOWHERE!
Well, not completely, it does have a million and a half streams on Spotify in only four days, YouTube is pulling up the rear, it's got 224,546 views, proving once again that YouTube has been superseded as the world's primary music site, and it skews young, for the prepubescent, those still in school, those whose parents are afraid they might run up charges and want them nowhere near their credit cards.
So, maybe "Get Together" will stall, won't become a worldwide hit, then again in Ibiza, in clubs...assuming they open this summer, this is not molly mindlessness, anybody can get and appreciate it.
Have you been to Ibiza, have you been to a dance club, one thing is for sure, you'll realize there's something happening there, you can either reject it outright, afraid of stretching to experience the new and different, too invested in who you are to open your horizons, or you could stay and survey the landscape...you'll desire nothing so much as to be involved. You might think yourself too old, you might not be able to take the leap, but there's no denying this group of people is having FUN! You remember fun, don't you? And this ain't a concert, with all that pushing needing security to keep order, everybody's friendly and nice.
"There's only one thing you can't forget
You've got only one life
This is one night
And you'll never see her again"
God, we've been dead, this virus has killed us emotionally if not physically, we've been so focused on politics, we've forgotten what it's like to let our senses lead us, which is what music specializes in, it puts intellect in the back seat and you flow with the sound, lifting your mood.
As for not seeing her ever again... That may not be true, this could be a one night affair, but the reason you go out is because...you never know who you'll run into, tonight could truly be the first night of the rest of your life, just ask the aforementioned boomers, who were in the marketplace before the internet, when you just couldn't dial up a date.
And the truth is "Get Together" is reminiscent of C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," which is now a sports staple, it's how you rev up the room, just like "Get Together" does, it raises the energy in the room instantly. And sure, it's derivative, but not completely...
I needed to check myself. I listened to a bunch of similar tracks. I was surprised how good many of them were, Saweetie's "Fast (Motion)" was very listenable, Cheat Codes' "Lean on Me" even more, but they still came up shy to "Get Together," because of the HOOK!
Oh, like most of today's numbers, "Get Together" is laden with hooks, but there's this one hook that grabs you, that appeals to your heart as opposed to your body and draws you right in. It's undeniable:
"It's 12:45
Got your body on my mind
And in fifteen minutes
You might be the one
For the night
But my number you can call
And the writing's on the wall
Yeah, yeah
When we get, when we get, get, get together"
It's the twist after the big hill of the roller coaster, it's the invitation, the green light, it's so sensual, without being completely mindless, you hear it and you've got to hear it again, because it feels so good!
That's one of the things missing from today's music. It's one chord, without changes, but this twist in "Get Together"...and then the explosion...
"When we get, when we get, get, get together"
You've seen her, she's more than a body, she's got a personality, she's inviting you, she wants you to...GET TOGETHER!
"It's time I close my eyes
I see your skin on mine
When we get, get, get together
Yeah
When we get, get, GET TOGETHER!"
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