A video from Facebook inspired me. It happens from time to time, my unending rest is disturbed by a tremor.
The signal? A video of Sergeant Vol-Au-Vent by Longtooth and Wasterman and Robbertus Byker from a performance in Sunderland. Their song riffs cleverly off the chorus of Pop Musiq by M. "Do You Like Pop Music?" they ask. They make it feel threatening. It gives me a shiver of excitement and I just want to whisper yes. It is a good song. A collision between so many ideas and genres that something special drops from the slurry of impact.
That made me look. Seek.
What a crushing, unstoppable force of music Pop Musik is. It is relentless. It offers a pair of pincer like fingers and beguiles you. As you approach it seizes your pubic hair and begins to sashay away, swinging its hips and looking at you knowingly. Knowing what you really want. Promising it. The section at the end of the video where the singer passes a series of singles to the reclining woman, who tosses them aside without even a glance.... it captures the ephemeral, disposable and transient nature of the medium itself whilst at the same time being profound and memorable.
Why don't more people cover this song?
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