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Baby I wish I'd been a better pop star
I wish I'd known when it started
I would've gone without more
I would've stayed inside
I would've stayed in shape
Baby I wish I'd been a better pop star
I could've been even more of a bastard
I could've really settled some scores
stayed low, picked my moments. kept my powder dry and then "Bam!"
Baby I wish I'd been a better pop star
cleaner! I was so messy!
I should've showed up! Had my act together
I should've showed some respect for the window!
When it was time to shine , I wasn't shiny!
Baby I wish I'd been a better pop star
I could be dead by now!
You could be on your fourth or fifth!
I blew it baby! I screwed up!
I should've repeat myself- repeat!
I should've stayed on message
I should've know in was on!
Baby I wish I'd been a better pop star
Baby I Wish I’d Been A
Better Pop Star is the
first single from the 2019 album from
Dave Graney and the mistLY, ZIPPA DEEDOO
WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?
Lyrically it’s a conversational song, but a conversation between two players. Talking as if after a heist gone wrong.
How can you be a good pop
star? Good/bad but not
evil?
How can you be a better Pop
Star?
And why?
A song that’s never been written
before.
Twelve string guitar, a swinging drumbeat
and big glam slashing guitar chords. It starts with a sly groove and bangs
straight into a vivid chorus. BABY I
WISH I’D BEEN A BETTER POP STAR.
Everybodys got regrets.
“I
could’ve been even more of a bastard!
I coulda really settled some scores!
I coulda really settled some scores!
Kept low/picked my moments/
kept my powder dry and then BAM!!!”
kept my powder dry and then BAM!!!”
Baby I Wish I’d been A Better Pop Star
Single out March 1st
ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS
THAT/THIS?
Out on CD and digitally in March
2019
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Baby I Wish I’d Been A Better Pop Star first appeared as it
does on Side Z of ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? with me playing all the instruments (except for Clare Moore on
drums). Clare suggested we do it with the
mistLY and it came over all swinging and bright with pounding toms, pop
oomph and zinging twelve string guitars. That was the idea of the album, to
have songs done in different styles and tempos.
Okay, there is no book on how to be a good pop star. Are there any good pop stars around? I don't really know.
People have low standards nowadays. A veteran music production friend said to me last night, "what will Ed Sheeran's legacy be? Some big grossing gigs in stadiums, but what standards did he set of his own?"
In my opinion ( I was going to say experience but realized it's never really been a situation for me), to be a pop star you need to be in the middle of a working, coherent music business that is all fussing and dancing around you. And it is only momentarily coherent because of you. Otherwise its just a chaotic scrum.
Personal taste comes into it. As does some sort of generational attitude.
Is a good pop star someone who obeys all the rules and inhabits the recognized forms of music and behaviour the best? Say, all the boys in One Direction?
Or is it the opposite? Jim Morrison?
I have to say I prefer unruly bastards.
Jim Morrison, Hank Williams, Tupac, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Norious B.I.G, Lil Wayne.
Do they work quietly and self sufficiently or create a whole lot of problems that require constant attention from people working for them? Again, in my experience, when I've seen people working with large record companies, (Probably don't exist any more in that style - lots of people involved) its the latter. People need something to do and a feeling that they are helping to shape something.
A pop star has to be massively poular, in my humble opinion. Across the board access to young minds.
Jim Morrison was that. Shaun Ryder and Kurt Cobain.
Do they thank everybody or say "fuck you" to everybody? Again, I think the latter is best, though Elvis presley had great manners.
For women, all this is much harder to read. A much smaller gallery of archetypes to draw from. Everybody judges them on a broader societal scale. Drunkenness, druggery and sexual promiscuity. Where is Janis Joplin when people talk about and reissue music by Hendrix, Brian Jones, Tim Buckley, Kurt? And age is harsh on female performers more than their male counterparts. There are few female versions of Van Morrison or David Crosby or Neil Young.
Pop stars I have enjoyed watching and listening to. (as opposed to other kinds of musicians who are my main interest).
Sophie Ellis Bextor, Womack and Womack, the Sex Pistols, Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Alexander O'Neal, Mental As Anything, Dragon (Marc Hunter), Steve Winwood, Steely Dan, The Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Ms Dynamite, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beastie Boys, The Cruel Sea, Estelle, Tupac, Lil Wayne, Mark Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Slade, T Rex, The Rolling Stones, the Beatles, The Byrds, the Who. AND MANY MORE!
Shows below are by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Thursday 28 March - Stag & Hunter, Newcastle
Friday 29 March - Bent On Food, Wingham
Saturday 30 March - 5 Church Street Bellingen
Sunday 31 March - Brunswick Picture House
Thursday 28 March - Stag & Hunter, Newcastle
Friday 29 March - Bent On Food, Wingham
Saturday 30 March - 5 Church Street Bellingen
Sunday 31 March - Brunswick Picture House
Friday April 12th - Memo Music Hall opening for Stephen Cummings.
Saturday May 4th The Gov- Adelaide CLARE MOORE AND DAVE GRANEY opening for Stephen Cummings.
Saturday May 4th The Gov- Adelaide CLARE MOORE AND DAVE GRANEY opening for Stephen Cummings.
Saturday June 1st - The Railway Club Darwin
Saturday June 15th-Major Toms, Kyneton.
Shows below are by Dave Graney and the mistLY
Wednesday 8 May - Brass Monkey Cronulla
Thursday 9 May - The Bunker Coogee
Friday 10 May - Lazybones Lounge, Marrickville
Saturday 11 May - Metro Social, Katoomba
Sunday 12 May - Dangar Bowlo.NSW
Sunday May 26th - Northcote Social Club (afternoon) ZIPPADEEDOO album launch show.
Friday June 21st the Bison Bar, Nambour.
June 22-23rd - the Bearded Lady, Brisbane.
June 22-23rd - the Bearded Lady, Brisbane.
July 12th - THE GOV - Adelaide.
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