Reposted from @thelegendsofmusic The Cars playing “My Best Friends Girl” Live on the Midnight Special Remembering the legendary Ric Ocasek who passed #OTD in music history in 2019 This song was written by Ric Ocasek and it’s about a story we’ve heard many times before. The story goes a little something like this: His girlfriend has left him and taken up with his best friend. What’s great about this track musically is that it has all the elements of the many heartbreak songs that were popular of the 50’s and 60’s. However, Ric managed to put a modern spin on it, making the guy in the song more nuanced and a little volatile. Pay attention to how Ric describes her with references like "nuclear boots" and "drip-dry glove”. His songs didn't tell personal stories, but were amplified and skewed reflections on what he noticed in others. He later commented on it saying: "Nothing in that song happened to me personally. I just figured having a girlfriend stolen was probably something that happened to a lot of people." From a musical standpoint, the song begins with chords in the lower register of the guitar, a two-bar progression moving from I to IV to V in F. Hand claps enter in bar five, and after the eight-bar intro (following descending synthesizer sounds from David Robinson's Syndrums,) the first verse begins featuring Ric Ocasek's vocals over a lead guitar lick in the key of F. A electronic piano (a Yamaha CP-30) is introduced in the first chorus, followed by a rockabilly guitar lick which leads to the second verse. Source: - Analyzing Popular Music by Allan F Moore for Cambridge University Press #Music #RockNRoll #TheCars #RicOcasek #BenjaminOrr #DavidRobinson #ElliotEaston #GregHawkes iiii]; )'