OK GLASS and the AUDACITY OF THE GROOVE

OK Glass songs are short. Careful attention is paid to how many corners can be cut, so as to present the song in such a bite-size format that if you aren't enjoying it, at least you don't have to suffer it for long. As Mark Twain famously etched onto ancient limestone, "If you don't like the OK Glass song, wait a minute."

Dance music does not regularly feature short songs. Some short songs get extended dance remixes. A cynic might claim some dance songs consist of a very short piece of music that is repeated ad nauseum. But the medium is the message. A dance song that is 6 seconds long is danced to by nobody. The repetition of the groove is figurative and literal - as a band plays a groove over and over, they tighten up, lock into each other, perform miniscule acts of musical communication. The dancers have more to dance to, and the Dionysian energy compounds over and over as the groove is repeated.

OK Glass knows that if a bad point is raised once, it fades into the background, quickly forgotten. But if a bad point is repeated over and over — on television, radio, in print, on social media — it becomes absolutely insufferable, leaving a bad taste in the mouth of those unfortunate enough to be alive that day. OK Glass does not want to leave you with any taste whatsoever.

But OK Glass has stepped out of the proverbial comfort zone and dared to declare some of these Grooves as worth repeating, if only for a little while. Is this a selfless act to try to see the world from a more extroverted person's view? No. Just as jaded as ever, OK Glass has finally recognized that nobody is going to hear what you are saying unless you say it over and over and over and over. They're going to have to edit the limestone: if you don't like the OK Glass song, wait two minutes.