What makes a song "cool"?
That's certainly an age old question, hell, what makes anything "cool"? What even is "cool?"
"Cool", in and of itself, seems to be quietly vanishing from our cultural landscape, does it not? Things these days are new, exciting, adventurous, challenging, scary, frightening, wondrous, woke, anti-woke, and the list goes on and on. Cool, however, keeps fading out, keeps falling lower on that list.
I'm old school, I'm always for things that are cool, especially cars and music. A 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback will always be cool. Forever. "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield will always be cool. Forever.
I think songs are cool if they stop you in your tracks. If they can, almost instantly, get you into it's groove. Songs are cool if they speak to you, or give you new insight into a person or idea. Cool songs can be long or short, but they can never be meh. Bland will never equal cool. Groove will always be cool. Forever.
I think the Cadillac Three are cool.
