Place Names in Rock Lyrics: Pop Muzik

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