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''"Detective, detective you belong to the parents / Who are ready-to-hear-the-worst about their daughter's disappearance / It takes a miracle to get me to stay / It only takes my little fingers to blow you away."'' | ''"Detective, detective you belong to the parents / Who are ready-to-hear-the-worst about their daughter's disappearance / It takes a miracle to get me to stay / It only takes my little fingers to blow you away."'' | ||
Costello's first album, ''My Aim Is True'', sold well and was a sort of critics delight, a most intriguing piece of flotsam-jetsam of the new wave. ''This Year's Model'' continues in the same genre as ''Aim'', namely that give and take of mental cruelty, the mundane, sometimes mechanical nature of relationships with pretty (and sometimes not so much so) young bourgeois females, who look like they've walked right out of ''Seventeen'' magazine. In his songs he is curt to the point of rudeness; in his impeachments of these hum-drum "models" — nevertheless bourgeois temper goddesses — his snarlings sound like a personalized type of Gestaltian therapy, considering the emotional effluent of their nature. | Costello's first album, ''My Aim Is True'', sold well and was a sort of critics delight, a most intriguing piece of flotsam-jetsam of the new wave. ''This Year's Model'' continues in the same genre as ''Aim'', namely that give and take of mental cruelty, the mundane, sometimes mechanical nature of relationships with pretty (and sometimes not so much so) young bourgeois females, who look like they've walked right out of ''Seventeen'' magazine. In his songs he is curt to the point of rudeness; in his impeachments of these hum-drum "models" — nevertheless bourgeois temper-goddesses — his snarlings sound like a personalized type of Gestaltian therapy, considering the emotional effluent of their nature. | ||
Still, there is a morbid masochism in all this: his attacks are necessarily kamikaze: | Still, there is a morbid masochism in all this: his attacks are necessarily kamikaze: |
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