Word: popping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another legislator, Yuri Shcherbak, notes that the decision to evacuate residents of the town of Chernobyl, which is just 14 km (9 miles) from the plant, was not made until May 2, six days after the accident. By April 30, he says, radiation in nearby Kiev (pop. 2.6 million) had risen to 100 times safe levels. The authorities knew that, according to Shcherbak, but "the population was not warned...
When the lyrics come in, it becomes even more obvious that "Pretending" is another pop-oriented track executed under the influence of Jerry Williams, Clapton's songwriting partner who was responsible for much of the August album...
...give credit where credit is due, Williams does have the ability to write a seemingly infinite number of similarly insipid bubble-gum pop tunes about unrequited love. Clever listeners will note that every one of the five Jerry Williams songs on Journeyman covers this topic, each with an equal lack of depth. And if these songs do not sound particularly fresh, that may be because four of the five were written at various times between 1985 and 1988, during the August and Behind the Sun recording sessions...
...quarter century ago, Clapton abandoned the Yardbirds, the group with whom he first made his reputation, because he felt them edging away from the purity of rhythm and blues in order to pursue pop success. The song which eventually gave the Yardbirds their commercial breakthrough and over which Clapton resigned was the Graham Gouldman tune, "For Your Love...
...might think you're listening to an old Bluesbreakers tune. But you're not. Eric Clapton's Journeyman has planted him firmly in the 1980s world of synthesizers and drum kits. The few blues songs that prop up this album seem sadly anachronistic in an arena of bubble gum pop...