Girls Chase Boys

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  Seven Songs for the Week #163 - 20th May 26

  Jason Carty

  Paul "Macca" McCartney was the musical guest on the season finale of SNL last weekend, and it seemed like a good idea to get up at 4:30am and watch it live in my time zone. Man alive, you forget how many ads US network tv has. Anyways, Paul did three songs, and his usual band (of the last 25 years!) had been tweaked for some reason: Chad Smith was on drums (adding an enjoyable heftiness to Band on the Run) and a new addition who turned out to be Ingrid Michaelson on backing vocals. Whether she was there to cover missing drummer Abe's usual backing vocals, or to shadow Paul's older voice is uncertain. Maybe she was there for both reasons.

  The internet loves a mystery, so "who is that woman in Paul's band?" led to finding this 20 year old single of hers which has a fun reverse-gender Addicted To Love video attached to it. Can we historically define mid-00s music now from that environment of collapsing CD sales/ iTunes MP3s / iPods / pre-streaming / Starbucks-has-a-record-label? This is where this song fits in...