{"id":61901,"date":"2016-08-21T20:43:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T00:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=61901"},"modified":"2020-07-22T23:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T03:24:44","slug":"audio-review-street-angel-song-paul-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=61901","title":{"rendered":"audio review : Street Angel ( song ) \u2026 Paul Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of this ditty, the closest Paul Simon&#8217;s come to hip-hop since his Wyclef Jean feature, sounds splendid. &#8220;My heart goes out to the street angels,&#8221; he says over blastworthy drums, but it&#8217;s a delightful background vocal sample that sells it.<\/p>\n<p>After the first twenty seconds or so, the song instantly goes awry and becomes a bit of a mess. The main problem is the structure or lack thereof, specifically the fact that Simon never properly brings back the aforementioned chorus section.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcellee.com\/?p=58578\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marcellee.com\/posts\/58578-1.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : Stranger To Stranger ( album ) ... Paul Simon\" title=\"audio review : Stranger To Stranger ( album ) ... Paul Simon\" style=\"height:100px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of this ditty, the closest Paul Simon&#8217;s come to hip-hop since his Wyclef Jean feature, sounds splendid. &#8220;My heart goes out to the street angels,&#8221; he says over blastworthy drums, but it&#8217;s a delightful background vocal sample that sells it. After the first twenty seconds or so, the song instantly goes awry and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=61901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : Street Angel ( song ) \u2026 Paul Simon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[36,90],"class_list":["post-61901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-paul-simon","tag-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61901"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97097,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61901\/revisions\/97097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}