Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
We’ve previously done Sweet Little Sixteen, Dancing in the Streets, Night Train, and Rock’n Me, so tonight let’s add M’s Pop Muzik. This was an international number one hit in late 1979 for English band M, basically consisting of singer Robin Scott and studio musicians. The song has a definite New Wave sound with lots of synthesizers and a drum machine beat. It will also add some international cities to our list.
Verses are sort of “pop music” nonsense lyrics, like so:
Sing it in the subway
Shuffle with a shoe shine
Mix me a Molotov
I’m on the hit line
While the chorus is this, which may have slight variations but, for our purposes, the same cities are repeated every time:
New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about, mm, pop muzik
Talk about pop muzik
Talk about pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Notes: The biggest cities we haven’t heard from yet, as least in the United States, are Boston, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, and Seattle (but we do have Tacoma!).
Atlanta x2
Baltimore x2
(northern) California
Chicago
Detroit
London
Los Angeles x2
Miami
Munich
New Orleans x3
New York City x3
Paris
Philadelphia x4
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Raleigh
Richmond
San Francisco
St. Louis
Tacoma
(heart of) Texas
Washington, DC x2