Like many children, my musical preferences traced an accelerated version of my parents’ own development–I was plunked down first into the music of the ’60s, and it took me 18 years to finally catch up to modern pop. I can’t remember the first time I heard “Night Moves”. Of course, I’m talking about the mono no aware (物の哀れ) in his hit song, “Night Moves”. What’s even weirder is that he can do this in a song about how he was constantly horny as a kid. It makes it weird, then, that his music so perfectly captures a uniquely Japanese aesthetic, one infamously difficult to translate. I’m not sure he’s ever even been to Japan. What does a quintessential heartland rock song have to do with a traditional Japanese aesthetic?Īmerican rock roll legend Bob Seger isn’t Japanese. Bob Seger and the 'Ah-ness' of Being: Why 'Night Moves' is the Most Poetic Rock Song Ever.
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