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Sure, The New Cats’ ‘Memory’ Is A Popera Furball, But Whose Fault Is That?

MUSIC Posted: December 23, 2019 4:45 am

Let’s talk more about what Andrew Lloyd Weber did with this music, and what’s been done to it since it premiered. Erm, the LAT‘s pop music critic isn’t a fan: “To hear the song’s dreary opening arpeggios now is to reflexively brush off the possibility of encountering something that might move you; the tune, a happily trashy bit of ersatz Puccini, has become a kind of showbiz parody of the emotion it once sought genuinely to embody.” – Los Angeles Times

MUSIC Published: 12.20.19

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