Bruce Springsteen - "Your Own Worst Enemy" (mp3)
They Might Be Giants - "Your Own Worst Enemy" (mp3)
So all the blogs are hung up on the idea that a couple of songs from the new Springsteen album supposedly sound like the Magnetic Fields. To me, "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" sounds more like "The Kids Are Alright" than anything else, and "Your Own Worst Enemy" reminds me of an 11-year-old They Might Be Giants song of the same name. The similiarity isn't so uncanny that I'd presume that it's anything other than an amusing coincidence. But really, the title lyric is sung in almost the exact same way in both songs (in TMBG's chorus, not the first verse), and the tempos are close enough that I can quite easily imagine singing one over the other. Bottom line, though, is that speculating on this stuff is way more interesting than talking about Magic as an album.
They Might Be Giants - "Your Own Worst Enemy" (mp3)
So all the blogs are hung up on the idea that a couple of songs from the new Springsteen album supposedly sound like the Magnetic Fields. To me, "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" sounds more like "The Kids Are Alright" than anything else, and "Your Own Worst Enemy" reminds me of an 11-year-old They Might Be Giants song of the same name. The similiarity isn't so uncanny that I'd presume that it's anything other than an amusing coincidence. But really, the title lyric is sung in almost the exact same way in both songs (in TMBG's chorus, not the first verse), and the tempos are close enough that I can quite easily imagine singing one over the other. Bottom line, though, is that speculating on this stuff is way more interesting than talking about Magic as an album.
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