Well put, Grishka.

Ray - Sure...it could take about 10 minutes to write that song. Why not? Most of the songs I've written have happened very quickly. We're not all like Leonard Cohen (who says he takes months or even years to finish writing some of his songs). Most of Bob Dylan's great songs were written down in a quick flash of inspiration, so why would it have taken Sarstedt very long to write "Where Do You Go To, My Lovely"? This stuff just springs out of the subconscious and you have to be attentive and get it down fast when it happens...at least that's how it works for me.

What's interesting about the song, though, is not how long it might have taken to write it, but what Grishka had to say in his last post. He has explained it perfectly, in my opinion. It's about "class treason", as he says. It's about selling out for personal gain. It makes me think of someone like Veronica Lodge in the Archie comics, only she was born rich. ;-) So she couldn't commit class treason by joining the jet set. The weakness of the song, again as Grishka says, is the undercurrent of envy that weaves through it. A true social revolutionary is not supposed to envy the material advantages of jet set fame and fortune, he is supposed to despise and reject them utterly...otherwise he has slipped from revolutionary grace, hasn't he? ;-)

These were important issues in the 60s.