This ain't no Hallmark Valentine....
114. Crystals "He's Sure The Boy I Love"
Love songs, especially those sung by and aimed at young women, too often offer silly knight-in-shining-armor romance novel fantasies that lead to disappointment and bitterness. This number, in grand rock and roll tradition, turns that all on it's head.
Leading off with auspicious sax and drums that explode into a gloriously huge Phil Spector Wall Of Sound production, Darlene Love (one of rock's finest female singers) declares her undying love for an average-looking unemployed Joe, and despite what modern talk-show self-help psychobabble would have you believe, this isn't 'acceptance' we're talking about here, as the jubilant chorus makes abundantly clear, she's not 'accepting' diddley-squat, she's celebrating. This song delivers, in beautiful sounding fashion, a central truth: you don't love someone because they're perfect, they're perfect because you love them.
Love songs, especially those sung by and aimed at young women, too often offer silly knight-in-shining-armor romance novel fantasies that lead to disappointment and bitterness. This number, in grand rock and roll tradition, turns that all on it's head.
Leading off with auspicious sax and drums that explode into a gloriously huge Phil Spector Wall Of Sound production, Darlene Love (one of rock's finest female singers) declares her undying love for an average-looking unemployed Joe, and despite what modern talk-show self-help psychobabble would have you believe, this isn't 'acceptance' we're talking about here, as the jubilant chorus makes abundantly clear, she's not 'accepting' diddley-squat, she's celebrating. This song delivers, in beautiful sounding fashion, a central truth: you don't love someone because they're perfect, they're perfect because you love them.
