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<center><h3> Get Happy </h3></center> | <center><h3> Get Happy </h3></center> | ||
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So rock 'n' roll's most embittered cynic is supposed to have gotten happy. I'm afraid it's a line I can't possibly buy on the evidence in the actual grooves. | So rock 'n' roll's most embittered cynic is supposed to have gotten happy. I'm afraid it's a line I can't possibly buy on the evidence in the actual grooves. | ||
In fact the title is both ironic and not. In terms of the stance, the ideas, the point of view in the lyrics, there is little change | In fact the title is both ironic and not. In terms of the stance, the ideas, the point of view in the lyrics, there is little change in Elvis Costello. An alternative title might have been that coined by the J. Geils band for their latest opus ''Love Stinks''; in ''Get Happy'', (consider this) Elvis leads us through a series of skirmishes on the bedroom floor, in and out of hotel rooms and, it seems, across America. | ||
The songs are largely autobiographical, as Costello fiercely analyses, denounces and admits his own guilt, in relationships which inevitably prove more problematic than sustaining. The impression gleaned is of a man who finds sex hard to avoid but for whom it provides cold comfort in the harsh light of day. | The songs are largely autobiographical, as Costello fiercely analyses, denounces and admits his own guilt, in relationships which inevitably prove more problematic than sustaining. The impression gleaned is of a man who finds sex hard to avoid but for whom it provides cold comfort in the harsh light of day. | ||
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