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Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
In response to Lloyd Cole’s Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?
(I prefer Camera Obscura’s song, personally.)
I’m Lloyd Cole all the way. I’ve obsessed over both of these songs before—and have written about it, natch. As I banged out in the spring (and clicky here to give a listen to Lloyd’s original):
“I dig both songs despite not immediately making the connection between the two. The lyrical similarities don’t stretch past the titles; Mr. Cole’s literary stab addresses an entire group of elitists who “look like Born Again[s]” and “listen to Arthur Lee records” while Tracyanne Campbell is singing about, well, being heartbroken and being unable to “see further than [her] own nose at the moment”.
I can agree and commiserate with both of them, depending on the day…and who I’ve spent it with.
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