Fetish Speaks To Her

The new Kill Rock Stars compilation, Fields & Streams, arrived today as an early birthday gift. I haven’t listened to the first cd much, but there’s a few really great songs on cd2, most notably “That Girl” by Tender Trap. This song is so fun, so wonderfully pop – there’s no doubt that this song could’ve been a hit in the 80s, which is not to say that it’s just yet another retro-80s song. This song does for what would be affectionately referred to on Barbelith as “theory-bitching” what LCD Soundsystem’s “Losing My Edge” does for record geeks. Even more so than the LCD Soundsystem song, the lyrics of this song don’t seem too scathing – I don’t think the song is really mocking the girl being described in the lyrics, it seems more like a love letter to her. I need to get the album this song is from, and soon.

PS: When they sing “that girl, that girl thinks that Travis are boring and Le Tigre are smart”, I can’t help but think of Sophie, and that’s quite enough to endear a song to me.