The New Pornographers: “The Body Says No“

Just after shooting this clip, I realized what it was that I didn’t like about Twin Cinema, or at least that made me rank it well below Electric Version: The non-standout songs go on way too long. This is one of those songs. It’s a decent album track -- not a contender for song of the year by any means, but a good enough listen, until you realize that it ends with about a minute and a half of extraneous chorus repeats. If you realize this at a live show, you’ll also notice it happening with other songs from this album, but not with songs from their previous albums. I’m not sure why they took that approach, as all of the too-long songs could just end before the repeats, but there you go. The song in tomorrow’s clip, also from Twin Cinema, is perfectly compact, so maybe there is no good explanation.