We recently reproduced E. Kidd Bogart’s statements about the lyrics of Rihanna’s ‘SOS’, whose second verse is made up of titles from pop hits from the eighties, so well put together that no one has realized the idea in fifteen years.
Cyn uses the same resource in ‘The Smiths’, the single that presents the reissue of her album, ‘Valley Girl’, published in fascicles. ‘The Smiths’, today’s Song Of The Day, is another standout track on this album, like ‘I Don’t Care’.
Cynthia Nabozny, an artist sponsored by Katy Perry on her record label, Unsub Records, releases with ‘The Smiths’ a wonderful tribute to Morrissey’s group, full of references to their music, and also a reminder of how much a bad memory can ruin your relationship with a musical group.
“Every time I listen to the Smiths I think of you / Holy shit / Heaven only knows how miserable I am,” Cyn sings in the chorus. Of course, Cyn uses the title of ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’, the Smiths’ 1984 single, to very cleverly express the state of “agony” in which that boy who is a fan of the Smiths with whom he had fallen in love, but who are no longer in his life.
Cyn uses other Smiths titles in the song, for example, to nostalgically remember that “Charming Man” that one day conquered her.
A song called ‘The Smiths’ couldn’t sound like anything other than eighties pop, specifically that made by guitar bands, not only the Smiths, but also the Pretenders or the Cure. The lyric video includes images of cassette tapes and vinyl.
