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    I’ll Love You for Awhile: Dusty Springfield (1965)

    The greater part of the pop music canon offers nothing but empty promises. I will always love you. I will love you always. You are my forever love. I will love you forever. If pop music has been dismissed as low art, it is perhaps for this very reason. It’s unrealistic pap, declaring every throwaway kiss to be the special-tender-loving-made-for-me-forever-always-one. The deluded sentiments of pop songs encourage one to believe that every kiss is magic, every glance a spell, every love to be true. But the realist understands that if everything means something, then, really, nothing means anything.

    Enter this song. Its disaffected lyrical pragmatism, readily acknowledging that, while I love you now, I will eventually leave you, is echoed in the repetitive, rigid rhythm and grid-like structure of the song itself. I find this matter-of-fact attitude towards love’s brief shelf life simultaneously refreshing and terrifying. I will love you for a while, just how long I cannot say. Long before love grows old, I’ll be on my way. I mean, of course! You’ve just described every single relationship ever. But did you have put it like that, Dusty?

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    Of course I love this song; it was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. (sigh) Oh, Carole!

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