That’s, like, your opinion man
Posted on March 22, 2006 by David
Thus quoth Steely Dan:
We’re actually accused of starting smooth jazz. Which I don’t think is exactly true. A lot of the effects we got were intended to be comic, like “Hey Nineteen.†We were in our thirties and still saddled with these enormous sex drives and faced with the problem that you can no longer talk to a 19-year-old girl because the culture has changed. That’s set against an extremely polite little groove. And then the chorus is set to jazz chords, and when you play them on electronic instruments there’s a flattening effect, a dead kind of sound. And it’s scored for falsetto voices, which adds to the effect. To me, it’s very funny. Other people think it’s nauseating.
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