No One To Recognize

Poor Moon “People In Her Mind”

This is the sort of pop song that practically begs the listener to step back and appreciate it as “songwriting” – the structure and melodic turns signal a neat, impeccable craft that calls attention to itself. It’s a very old school composition, and the lyrics follow the form, as the narrator sings with great empathy about a lonely girl who has come to realize that she is constantly blending into the background. I quite like the lines about how she gets hung up on trying to recall people’s names – there’s an OCD collector impulse going on there, and she seems to be oblivious that her impulse to catalog all these people puts her at a remove from them.

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