Sure, Why Not Come and Get Your Love?

That’s Toni Lindgren + Northsoul, whoever that is. She (they) seem to have embraced the current aesthetic and assembled a fine little cult on social media and whatnot. Semi-mucho views on YouTube. Got a webpage, too. Girl guitar players still rate some extra man-bites-dog attention if they’re any good. That’s her brother mandolizing nicely with her. The bass player doesn’t get in the way, a rarity in a world where bass players have strapped an extra treble string on their electric planks to play in the wrong register even more. God, I like kids doing things. Especially happy kids doing happy things. Happy young people, while not hunted to extinction yet, are on the endangered species list, surely.

I suppose I could inform the public about original version of this song. That would be bringing coals to Newcastle, though. There’s a reason why random kids would cover it. Everyone knows the words. It’s a karaoke hardy perennial. I gather it’s on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, along with an assortment of other songs that don’t have much to do with each other.

If you’re currently old and in the way, you’ll remember the original assault Come and Get Your Love made on the Top 40, and wonder why the kids didn’t do a rain dance before they started playing:

Lolly Vegas made the world incrementally, intergenerationally happier. How many people can claim that?