You've made the silly lyrics argument before about various songs and it always leaves me scratching my head, as if the record buying public in the 60s and 70s cared about song lyrics. Not when songs like "Louie, Louie" and "Fly Robin Fly" [[and "up, up to the sky" it's only lyrics) were major hits. And it's not like they were the exceptions to the rule. The 60s and 70s were a hodgepodge of lyrical content taking the music world by storm. All anyone seemed to care about is how does the song make them feel. Does it make them dance? Does it make them sad? Happy? I hardly think people would've heard Scherrie singing about having the dance fever and how she can't stop and would've said "what the fuck is this shit about?"
As good as "Recover" is, most of that kind of stuff just sounds
too disco. "Dance Fever" and "Mr. Boogieman" [[another one that I absolutely hated upon first listen) had more of a funky vibe to it than disco. I think the Supremes would've succeeded with a straight r&b sound, like the Emotions. Sure some of the songs were danceable, but not necessarily disco. And of course the Emotions had beautiful mellow cuts too. The Supremes should've been going in that direction. Of course "Dance Fever" is a bit funkier than anything I would've given them, but I think it might have worked.
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