From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
I'm John McWhorter, and listen to this music in the background.
Not my usual style, but...
Listen, darling, to every word I say.
I left you long before...
My sweet darling, don't even try to sway.
Love is lost and I must walk away.
I know I've said it once before.
But now I'm feeling more and more.
That is actually a new single from Danielle.
Ponder.
I think she's new on the scene.
And the album is called Some of Us Are Brave.
And it's called Only the Lonely.
I happened to be listening to NPR while I was in the car.
And I heard it come on.
And, you know, no, it's not the kind of music I usually listen to.
And maybe partly for that reason,
I was listening to it more as a linguist than as whatever kind of artistic soul I am.
And I was just thinking to myself, hmm, Only the Lonely.