{"id":94,"date":"2005-12-18T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=94"},"modified":"2018-04-28T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T02:27:15","slug":"michelle-its-easy-to-be-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/12\/18\/michelle-its-easy-to-be-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle (It’s Easy to Be Sad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michelle\"<\/p>\n

O<\/span>ne thing led to another.<\/p>\n

I had to write a song for a girl named Michelle as part of the Barista Cycle<\/a> project.<\/p>\n

What’s the first thing you think about when you sing the name Michelle? Me, too.<\/p>\n

Pretty soon I was writing about a girl working for the phone company (back in the days when there was pretty much just one big phone company, nicknamed Ma Bell). Having been a directory assistance operator as a temp for six weeks (long story, money plays a part in it), I’d heard the same thing from a few girls: “Here I am a single female surrounded by gorgeous men with steady jobs and great fashion sense, but…”<\/span><\/p>\n

Once I was treading on the hallowed shadow of the Beatles, I found myself drawn to turning the song into one of those all the lonely people<\/span>-type affairs, if anything for the license it might afford, allowing a cheap but hopefully satisfying excursion into lazy compassion.<\/p>\n

So… we catch up with Michelle on a Saturday night, her charming, handsome through-the-week pals are otherwise engaged, even her cat is out for a night on the town…<\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Michelle_Its_Easy_to_Be_Sad\/Michelle__Easy_to_Be_Sad.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Michelle (It’s Easy to Be Sad)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Michelle
\nMa Bell was such a strange career choice
\nI know you did it to be around all them pretty boys
\nbut I’m afraid you will never be annoyed
\nby smooth operators down in the break room
\nthey’ve all got something else to do<\/p>\n

Michelle
\nMa bell was no place to meet boys
\nall the best they’re all just someone else’s toys
\nall of the strut and all of the noise
\nall the clothes and all the poise
\nthey’ve all got something else to do
\nMichelle<\/p>\n

It’s a saturday night michelle
\nIt’s a saturday night michelle
\nIt’s a saturday night michelle
\nAnd when Monday morning comes around
\nYou know you’ll hear how it all went down
\nand you know how it’ll make you feel
\nthe same old loneseome way
\nIt’s easy to be sad
\nwhen all your boyfriends are gay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing led to another. I had to write a song for a girl named Michelle as part of the Barista Cycle project. What’s the first thing you think about when you sing the name Michelle? Me, too. Pretty soon I was writing about a girl working for the phone company (back in the days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[681,996,862,863,995,1034],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}