Kid Blue - Louise Goffin

Name: Kid Blue - Louise Goffin
Uploaded: 1979-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: This video documents Louise Goffin at the very outset of her solo career, as a teenager signed to Elektra/Asylum — the premier label of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter movement. Released in 1979, the year of the Knack's breakthrough and the New Wave's commercial arrival, Goffin's debut occupied a stylistically conservative space…

1979 · Late 1970s Singer-Songwriter / Early MTV Pre-Era (1979) · music video

1979Late 1970s Singer-Songwriter / Early MTV Pre-Era (1979)Late-1970s LA singer-songwriter pop / Elektra-Asylum soft rock lineage

What this video is

This video documents Louise Goffin at the very outset of her solo career, as a teenager signed to Elektra/Asylum — the premier label of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter movement. Released in 1979, the year of the Knack's breakthrough and the New Wave's commercial arrival, Goffin's debut occupied a stylistically conservative space relative to the emerging post-punk landscape. As the daughter of Carole King and…

Why it matters

Represents a critical transitional artifact at the boundary of 1970s soft rock / singer-songwriter pop and the emerging 1980s video era. The track's guitar-pop energy sits between the AM radio craftsmanship of the Carole King lineage and the more energetic, youth-oriented pop that would define…

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