Times are hard for Space Stag over at Dudes Dudes Dudes, the songwriting battle royale. The new assignment is to write a non-denominational, spiritually uplifting song in the manner of George Harrison. It looks like it’s art imitating art imitating art, sadly; every chord progression I come up with just sounds like a T. Rex song. Which means that I have, today, revisited most of Bolan’s catalog, and my song-fixating tendencies have found Cosmic Dancer, and now that’s all I can think of. Even the dumb lyrics are strangely beautiful: “what it’s like to be a loon / I liken it to a balloon”– I was (am) really feeling that. Really. But if the source song is a rip-off, maybe that makes it okay.
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