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When I was in 2nd grade, most of my schoolmates liked Devo, the Pretenders, or Pat Benatar.
But one of my favorite songs was by...
Are you ready for it?
Christopher Cross!
It was a different era from later when I listened to Men At Work or the Cars. But there was one reason and one reason only why I dipped my toes into the adult contemporary waters of Christopher Cross. It was because somebody likened this now-lost hit to the sound of bubble gum popping, and I thought that was hilarious.
One Sunday, we were in the parking lot at church, and this song was on the radio. A family member declared that the song sounded like someone popping bubble gum.
And the rest as they say is history.
Truth be told, it doesn't really even sound like real bubble gum popping. It sounds more like the sound effects they used in gum commercials - like the Hubba Bubba ads with the Gum Fighter, or the Bubble Yum ads where the guy was haranguing this Claire or Monica person.
Christopher Cross was such a sensation in the early 1980s that Texas lawmakers declared an official Christopher Cross Day...
But the big, bright Christopher Cross balloon that bobbed along America's skyline started losing its air with the rise of MTV. One website put it this way: Christopher wasn't actually ugly - but his high-pitched voice didn't match his appearance. When we got into the mid-'80s, the visual aspects of music media were often as important as the music itself. I think it became less important again later, when MTV hardly showed music videos anymore, but many people say that MTV's rise came at just the wrong time for the man from San Antonio.
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