What makes a hit pop song? Lady Gaga wearing a frock made from balsa wood? ABBA cheerfully singing a date-rape romp called "Waterloo"? Lindsay Lohan shrieking in bathtubs? Beyoncé spasming in spandex?
What's she missing? How do you write a popular song huge enough to be heard distorted through the tinny speakers of a cheap knock-off iPhone on the Frankston-bound train?
She's sung with Paul Kelly and Debra Byrne, written a song for Hamish Blake and played with a pianist who accompanied Ella Fitzgerald. Now Geraldine Quinn (Spicks and Specks, Comedy Channel, BBC Radio) will uncover the secrets of pop to write a SingStar-calibre hit. Move over Fergie! And pull your pants up, for God's sake.
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Geraldine Quinn: Shut Up And Sing at Mebourne Comedy Festival
Geraldine Quinn’s always wanted to be a pop star, but has now come to reluctantly realise that she’s ‘too old, too overweight and too ginger’ to ever achieve…
2/08/2010