No! Great Foreigner songs blow past the normal limits of rocking on the chorus. You may be saying, Lucas, this is just how songs work. During the verse, you should be at 80 percent rocking, and during the chorus you need to rocket the rocking on up to 120 percent. Just in case you didn’t know how one way tickets work.Įscalation - Another hallmark of any great Foreigner song is a certain ratio. I’ll give you a quick example of this from the song Juke Box Hero: The second is lyrical clarity to the point of redundancy. You will know within 10 seconds of a Foreigner song what you’re in for, and more often than not the thing that you’re in for is rocking. And thus, without further ado, I give you: The Top Ten Greatest Foreigner Songs Ranked.Ĭlarity - Every great Foreigner song is absolutely unambiguous. I feel proud of this feat because it is in perfect alignment with the Oscar Wilde school of thought (a school I’m certainly enrolled in)- art is useless. I’ve written something so useless, so out of touch with the current age, that even if one million people were to read it, I’d wager that not a single one would come away with any relevant tidbit to bring up at a dinner party. In fact, I feel proud to say that I may have accomplished the complete opposite of those works. In recent memory these would include the short story Cat Person, the article The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence, and any of the many modern “Girl” thrillers (Gone Girl, The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl on the Train, etc…). They get passed around, referenced, and debated so much that you know you would be missing out on something essential were you to not read them. Every now and then certain pieces of writing crop up which so deeply capture the zeitgeist that it seems mandatory to read them.
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