Laura talks to Janis Ian, herself on the edge of 70, and Sharon Van Etten, who's just turned 40, about the 'seventeen' songs they've written, as well as the music journalist David Hepworth, founding editor of Just Seventeen magazine, about what makes seventeen the pivotal age for pop music. Now youre all gone got your make-up on and youre not coming back. Chords for Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl - Live at Terminal 5. Used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that. (dream about me) Park that car, drop that phone. It is the age, too that has preoccupied songwriters from Chuck Berry via the Beatles and Stevie Nicks to Olivia Rodrigo, who this year - at the age of seventeen - had a global hit with a song about getting that symbol of maturity, her driver's licence. (dream about me) Park that car, drop that phone. The music writer Laura Barton presents a triptych of meditations on the enduring qualities, appeal and intent of pop music.Īt the age of seventeen we stand on the cusp of adulthood, on the edge of new autonomy, freedom, beginning.
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