{"id":1663,"date":"2018-04-27T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2018-04-25T10:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T09:21:01","slug":"song-of-the-week-physical-by-julianna-hatfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Physical&#8221; by Julianna Hatfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Physical&#8221; by Juliana Hatfield:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfiMIK-x1uI\" width=\"352\" height=\"220\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Physical<\/a>&#8221; was a huge hit for erstwhile <em>Grease<\/em>r Olivia Newton-John in 1981, a time when your correspondent was far too young to really understand what Olivia meant about getting physical. In 1993, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jUAVbGoR81I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spin the Bottle<\/a>,&#8221; a song with one of the greatest rhymes in pop\/rock history, was a hit for erstwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blake_Babies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blake Baby<\/a> Juliana Hatfield (or, well, technically, The Juliana Hatfield Three, but anyway), a time when your correspondent was just the right age to understand what Juliana meant about five minutes in the closet with you (with me? No.). In 2018, Juliana Hatfield has released an album called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alr-music.com\/collections\/out-now\/products\/juliana-hatfield-sings-olivia-newton-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John<\/em><\/a>, and the long-awaited moment where your correspondent understands life* and both these songs in one place has arrived.\u00a0 Thanks, Juliana!<\/p>\n<p>*Your correspondent understands almost nothing about life.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Physical%22%20by%20Julianna%20Hatfield\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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