These references include the television programs How I Met Your Mother, That '70s Show, Top Gear, and the video game Grand Theft Auto V.
Īs cultural references go, many commenters mention what brought them to find the song on YouTube. It might not have interesting melodies and chord changes but to Add these you would Subtract from the “Mood.” Some of the best songs are the simplest and this you do not understand.” Another disagreement ensues when one commenter states that they are a rapper and other commenters attack the original commenter’s career, claiming that being a rapper is a sad excuse for a career. For example, one commenter wrote, “You claim this song is boring but I think what you are missing is that it is a “Mood” song.
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Many comments are memories of commenters, such as this one: “Love this song…I remember this song and dancing around singing it, stereo as loud as it would go…” A few times a series of comments appear as a conversation between two listeners, more often than not arguing about music. The majority of these comments are instances of people relating to the song lyrics. The book contains 75 pages worth of comments from the YouTube music video. In an article edited from interviews in The Wall Street Journal, Seger (age 70 at the time) reflects on when he was 30 and wrote “Night Moves” as a reflection on his childhood and coming of age. Bob Seger's "Night Moves" Īccording to Slate, “Night Moves” was a 70s FM radio classic.
The nostalgic and relatable comments and the large amount of cultural references Barber saw here are compiled in this work of conceptual writing. Night Moves is a 2013 poetry book by Stephanie Barber which consists of a portion of comments posted to YouTube on the music video of the 1976 song " Night Moves" by Bob Seger.
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