Hes like, freaking out, she dances close up on him, its so wild.
The volunteer, Early notes, was literallytoohot, and quite tall.
Nonetheless, while making his seductive moves, he decided to throw a leg over the mans shoulder.
John Early at home in Los Angeles, September 2024.Maggie Shannon for Rolling Stone
Oh no, he thought instantly.
I fall on my knees, he says.
So I have a pulled groin, bruised knees, and nothing to show for it, Early concludes.
Yeah, Im going to figure it out, he says.
Itll just mean coming up with an actual dance.
And, of course, studyingJanet Jacksonsome more.
(Hitting the high notes had long been aparty trickof his.)
He buys them both.
Then he notices a shelf of VHS tapes: My eye goes right toMuriels Wedding.
I named my dog Muriel, he adds.
Something else was clearly going on in my life, he says of the obsession with the singer.
Hayes became the main source of the sound that he and the band wanted to achieve.
Yet the Seventies throwbacks provide a way to complicate all that intra-generational loathing.
Heres what it boils down to, he says at one point.
After all that comes the unexpected, romantic release.
The key is always wrong!
A diva deserves better.
