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Foxes, "Cruel"

My schoolmates and I grew up in San Francisco, whose blocks were tightly-packed. We cherished open space, even if it simply was an asphalt playground. Several of my friends lived in the northeast corner of the City. So it was natural, that we played at North Beach Playground, now called "Joe DiMaggio Field."



When it comes to Lombard Street, most of the attention is on the crooked part. A distant second would be the Telegraph Hill portion, leading to Coit Tower. But down in the flat portion was North Beach Playground (in the photo above, you can barely make it out. The girls loved lite rock, but via Walkman and boombox, we listened to anything from dance music to thrash metal.



Karen was one of our core friends. When we'd play softball, no one fought her, to play second base :-) From 5 years ago, Karen still likes Foxes' "Cruel," whose album version sounds much better than the video edit. Karen smiles, "If I had walk-up music, this'd be it!" Maybe that was Karen's Kate Spade bag, but before the pandemic, when a few of us old high school friends got together for softball, we still had the 50/50 boy/girl split. It goes without saying, that your friends have an outsized influence, on what music is played. And that, in turn, can shape you as an audiophile. With half of us being female, the synthpop of Foxes' "Cruel" is in line with what we listen to.

Most audiophiles will want something kick-ass, as their walk-up music. But I'm not surprised, that Karen would like the bouncy synth of "Cruel." In the video, notice that Foxes (her real name is Louisa Rose Allen) dons a Walkman, and tosses a couple of LPs out the window. At the end, she pulls the tape out of the cassette. Given that Foxes was born in April 1989, it's likely that she never, in real life, used a cassette Walkman.

-Lummy The Loch Monster



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Topic - Foxes, "Cruel" - Luminator 17:07:34 06/9/21 (0)

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