I remember when Lovefool came out on the Romeo and Juliet Soundtrack. I would shut my bedroom door. Lock it. Blast that shit. Watch myself dance in the full length mirror. Once, my friend Logan pretended like one of the posts of my canopy bed was a stripper pole and did sexy dances with it. to Lovefool. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen anybody do. I knew it was bad. So I just quietly checked the doorknob. To make sure.
Last night, I got to be in a show with the singer of that song. Nina Persson. She wore a mustard yellow blouse and a grey pencil skirt and pretended to be a therapist while she sang the Bruno Mars chorus of Lighters. Everybody in the audience put their lighters in the air. But I don’t smoke.
So I held up a candle.
I used to reenact that video and flutter my eyelashes and pretend I was her all the time when Lovefool was big. She’s so beautiful. Later, their album Super Extra Gravity became one of my all-time favorites.
I wasn’t able to view the Tom Jones/Cardigans video but if anyone has trouble, I found it again here:
thanks for the link update! i’ll have to spend some hard earned time on super extra gravity.