I always forget how great this song is until I’m listening to it again, whereupon it all always comes right back to me. It’s in the way it moves, bouncing and kerplunking, humming and echoing, buzzing and singing. And in the weirdly just right details — the first fading “na na na na na na na na”s, the “don’t you have money I asked/Of course I do!” line, the offbeat guitarish-sounding squiggles which appear about halfway through, the emphatic clatter between those last repetitions of “mimi on the beach…mimi and me” and the fade-out. And in the genius melody and the way it contrives to catch you off balance with every turn while also feeling entirely natural, playing endlessly with standard pop forms and motifs. And, obviously, I’m just a sucker for seven and a half minute long synth-pop songs with Philip Glass opera-referencing titles which sound rather like Glass, too…who isn’t?
