This is the greatest song in the Motown canon (though it has a LOT of competition--so many great songs), and that moment (you know the one) is one of the great moments in popular music.
One reason the song is so great is that I'm not convinced that Bernadette is actually his woman. Oh yeah, he's talking a good game, but when he shouts her name it's as if he's shouting into the dark void of his soul, begging the universe to make it so. But is it?
This is the greatest song in the Motown canon (though it has a LOT of competition--so many great songs), and that moment (you know the one) is one of the great moments in popular music.
One reason the song is so great is that I'm not convinced that Bernadette is actually his woman. Oh yeah, he's talking a good game, but when he shouts her name it's as if he's shouting into the dark void of his soul, begging the universe to make it so. But is it?