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| Culprit | Sonny and Cher |
| Title | I Got You Babe |
| Year | 1965 |
| Written by | Sonny Bono |
| Submitted by | Mark W |
"I Got You Babe" is a stark reminder that a painful gearbox-crunching key shift is no barrier to a song achieving "classic" status. The gear change comes surprisingly early in the song – well before it could be accused of getting boring, although the vocals are rather soporific throughout – and so perhaps Sonny Bono (whose real name was Salvatore Bono), was trying to link it to the defiant nature of the lyrics at this point. "Don't let them say your hair's too long" – and don't let them say you can't just shove in a key change for the hell of it. That's how fuck-the-system Sonny and Cher were!
As a solo "artiste", Cher went on to re-offend with "If I Could Turn Back Time", although to be fair she didn't write either gear change. Her defence must be: "Don't shoot the messenger."
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