Blog: PowerPop

Okay, the video below is of course, the 1972 smash "Brand New Key" by Woodstock phenom Melanie , a record that today may strike you as either charmingly proto-feminist or deeply irritating on a purely aural level. In any case, therein lies a tale. Before we get to that, I should add that although her music has never been particularly to my taste, I think she's on balance quite a bit better than her rep as a hippie relic suggests. Yeah, I found her irksome back in the day, but several of her [...]