What is passion often attached to, not just in sports, but in life? The goal of pushing the right button is to ignite passion. But it’s true that, because athletes are individuals, each competitor is built with “buttons” that trigger different reactions when pressed. The phrase “push the right buttons” has become clichéd in sports.

But there’s a special genre of music that select athletes now listen to pregame that provides a little extra boost. Music is scientifically proven to increase physical performance. He was only 25 when we lost him.A pregame pump-up song doesn’t generate the same adrenaline rush for everyone. But the best thing about the song is that it always reminds me of Jimmy Scott. “If someone wants to hear it, it’s always a pleasure. “I enjoy singing it these days,” says Hynde. All I ever wanted was to play venues the size of Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and that’s the kind of place we still play today. I don’t remember it having any huge impact in terms of us playing bigger venues. “In terms of my career, Brass In Pocket was about as big as it got,” the singer says, “but globally-speaking it was more like a B-movie. Hynde and the rest of the band attended his funeral while the UK was going Pretenders-mad. The sad backdrop to The Pretenders’ only chart- topper was the heroin-overdose death of her friend and flatmate Kevin Sparrow. When Brass In Pocket went to No.1, no champagne was popped chez Hynde, and not just because of her conflicted feelings about the song. The closing shot shows the band driving off and me looking out of the window, weeping. “He had the band showing up with their girlfriends in a Pink Cadillac, and me trying to get their attention and failing. “I’d cast off my apron and we’d all ride off into the sunset.”Īlas the video’s director – missing the fact that Hynde was an alpha female – had a rather different idea. “My idea was that the band would show up on motorbikes,” she says. The Story Behind The Song: The Logical Song by SupertrampĮven if Hynde hadn’t conceived Brass In Pocket's meaning as some kind of feminist anthem, she was frustrated when the accompanying video cast her in a passive role, playing a down-at-heel waitress at a Nowheresville diner – a woman with far less drive and tenacity than the real Chrissie Hynde.11 Collaborations Starring Chrissie Hynde.The Story Behind The Song: Teenage Kicks by The Undertones.If it was really, really good stuff they called it ‘reet petite’.” “One cartoon of his had this pot gauge a machine for measuring the quality of marijuana. “I was a big fan of his comic books”, she says. It’s actually very tongue-in- cheek – that’s why I have that line where I sing: ‘I’m winking at you.’”Įlsewhere, the meaning of ‘ Detroit leaning’ is a style of driving where folks lean way back in the front seat and stick their elbow out of the window her ‘ Got new skank/It’s so reet’ is a little tip of the hat to famed US artist and satirist Robert Crumb. We want our rock singers to be confident and cocky, and Brass In Pocket was an act, my attempt to write a song that sounded like that. For me, Brass In Pocket was supposed to be real traditional, because tradition in rock is what turns me on. “The ‘girl’ thing seems to be real important for other people but I’m mystified by it. “When people say that there’s this strong female persona driving the song, it drives me fucking crazy!” she blasts. It’s a small, if crucial, detail but Hynde maintains that any girl-power the song packs is as much by accident as by design. Hynde sings: ‘You’re special’, rather than the cockier, much more self-assured ‘I’m special’ on the finished version. Interestingly, the demo of Brass In Pocket that appears on Rhino’s 2007, two-CD re-release of The Pretenders’ self-titled debut album has somewhat different lyrics.

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