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This Is Pop? Lyrics
In a milk bar and feeling lost
Drinking sodas as cold as frost
Someone leans in my direction
Quizzing on my juke-box selection
What do you call that noise
That you put on?
This is pop
Yeah Yeah
This is!
On a walkway and moving fast
All I get is transistor blast
Someone leans in my direction
Quizzing on my station selection
What do you call that noise
That you put on?
This is pop
Yeah yeah
This is!
We come the wrong way
We come the long way
We play the songs much too loud
This is pop
Yeah yeah
Drinking sodas as cold as frost
Someone leans in my direction
Quizzing on my juke-box selection
What do you call that noise
That you put on?
Yeah Yeah
All I get is transistor blast
Someone leans in my direction
Quizzing on my station selection
What do you call that noise
That you put on?
Yeah yeah
We come the long way
We play the songs much too loud
Yeah yeah
Andy wrote this with some inspiration from "A Clockwork Orange," and some inspiration from having read an interview about The Sex Pistols; Andy said that the interviewer wasn't sure what to call the band's music. Andy thought something like "If it sells a lot, it's pop." And "pop" is just short for "popular," so he's right about that.
The inspiration from "A Clockwork Orange" is the part where Alex talks to the two girls at the record shop. "Someone leans in my direction, quizzing on my music/station selection."