[18] Bobbie Gentry, ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again’
February 12, 2008Country girl turned pop crooner, Gentry took this tidy, sweetly judged Bacharach and David song to the toppermost of the poppermost. It’s a lovely mix of playground truth – “What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia” – and genuine heartbreak – “broken up and battered that’s what you get, a heart that’s shattered” – delivered with chin-jutting defiance that never quite convinces. I don’t suppose it’s meant to.
The final, hopeful piano chords, mimed by Junior in the back of the car this morning, suggest tentative steps into something new.
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