Love is the drug

Love is the drug. Thanks for the heads-up Roxy Music. It was their biggest hit in America, and it was the ultimate floor-filler in boogie wonderland, a year before I was born.

The Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame has classified Love is the Drug as one of the 500 defining songs of the form. It’s about the addictive nature of romance, and the lengths people will go to find it. Late at night. 

I guess it’s about pressure, the pressure to find love while you can still dance, so that once the dancing stops, you can keep the love in a safe place. Because the flip-side, in the song, happens in a red light district where the guy goes to score. 

The whole culture is telling you to speed up, and then there’s this meme doing the rounds that tells you to slow down and appreciate art. Are there people who still heed online advice?

We need a way of measuring how people respond to memes, “now regarded as the most significant unit of cultural evolution, since the invention of the poster in 1477.” Meta told me that. 

Let’s hear it for the lonesome drifters who have nothing to hang onto, but their memes.