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“But I was like, I think people love when you do that because it’s weird and funny and hooky. It makes you remember the song more because it’s not correct.”

“I just tried to think, what's really hooky and what would be fun to sing with a crowd. Those were my parameters.”

Supposedly playing hooky from filming a movie, he visits the walrus diorama at the Natural History Museum.

He developed a sound mixing folk, classic rock, blues and hooky pop, and signed to local independent label Beserkley Records to release his first album in 1976.

As vigorously as she was moving, her vocals were gutsy and precise in “Femininomenon” and “Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl,” to name two of the insanely hooky, ’80s-coded jams from “Midwest Princess,” which the singer made with Rodrigo’s most trusted collaborator, producer Dan Nigro, in the wake of being dropped by Atlantic Records in 2000 and moving home to small-town Missouri from Los Angeles.