Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
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Music CD Cover Artist: Marvin Gaye Brand: GAYE,MARVIN Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2003-01-14 Music Label: Motown Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for What's Going On Album
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Hit: 1 Stars
Listening to "What's Going On" is like having a really sexy civics teacher in high school. She can talk all day about police brutality and the civil rights movement; your mind's somewhere else. The songs simply blend into each other, creating a sweet and high tapestry fantasy with cops and cars and unemployment and the city woven in. You won't even realize what you're talking about til you're done talking about it, and you won't know the record's over til you're ready to hit it again. What you really want to do is just put it in your CD player on repeat and let the last song blend back into the first one. It's almost seamless; I wish Marvin would've taken that to its limit. I played around with it on my computer, erasing seams: it wasn't hard and the results completed the record, one big question, one big what's going on without an answer or an attempt to analyze and repair like most social records do. Call that a strength or a weakness, there's an answer in the attitude here. If the album makes me think bedroom thoughts beginning to end, well hey, make love not war. It's not a sobering look at social ills, but who wants to be too sober anyway? Everyone else
can offer sobering looks at social ills. Marvin offers a look at social ills with the truth but not the edge. It's a thing to say. But what I come back to is a peculiar sort of moral justification -- hey man, they're songs about social ills. They just happen to make me feel like laying you down by the fireside... something wrong with that?