Beating Back the Claws of the Cold lala-lala Ronnie Spector

Ronnie Spector

Album standout “Fuck With Your Friends” was a breakthrough moment for West—it was the first song she ever wrote

“Throughout the album

Llobet first worked out the verses while waiting for a guitar student

’ but really just open it up so we could get back to our present connection

Beating Back the Claws of the Cold lala-lala Ronnie SpectorFor all there is to be said about the power of the present in the endlessly cannibalizing tradition of pop music, its often the uncanny intangibility of timelessness that so separates the wheat from the chaffa music aware of both the past and present, and yet discernibly apart from either moment in time. It is a tightrope tread by many, and often with perilous consequence. And yet, in the most literal sense of the word, timelessness is the very