So I saw the new Shrek flick the other day, and I liked it a lot (the pussycat steals it of course). One of the neater things about it is that the pre-existing pop songs on the soundtrack are much better integrated into the action than in the other two movies; I don't want to give away a major plot point, but there's a chorus of frogs lip-synching to McCartney's "Live and Let Die" that will make you expel soda through your nose.
I bring this up, however, because there's also a brief snippet of what is beginning to be widely conceded as the worst song in the history of worst songs.
Here's a vintage video of both the offending ditty and its reprehensible auteurette:
Ladies and germs, give it up for Charlene singing "I've Never Been to Me".
Ah, the 70s. As Paul Westerberg famously said, when dogshit really was dogshit.
That is truly one god-awful song!
ReplyDelete"Thar she blows," so to speak. But, as Theodore Sturgeon once said, ninety percent of everything is crap!
There was a lot of great music from the seventies, from Santana to the Talking Heads, to cite a couple obvious examples. Let's think of the glass as half full rather than half empty.