Last fall, when it came out, millions of children heard it. Some played it over and over, often through headphones, learning the words and memorizing the dialogue. They danced to it on playgrounds, and they requested it on TRL. Some years from now, these children will either conclude that relationships are quite impossible to navigate and that cause and effect are fairly random, often isolated events, or else they will somehow find a way to resist the unspeakably well-crafted structures of songs like The Call and write songs of their own that conform more generally to our rather more linear world. We shall see. Somewhere, somethings got to give. | ||||