I am almost completely ignorant about pop music of the last 20 or 25 years. I heard something in the grocery store yesterday that is partly stuck in my head, but not enough of it stuck for me to figure out now what it was. I’m assuming it was relatively recent, but the store’s audio was a mix of Top-40 type stuff from multiple decades (I heard David Bowie’s “Blue Jean” later, which I recognized from my high-school days, which is the last era I paid much attention to the radio).
What I mostly remember is that the song and especially the chorus had more sophisticated chord/note changes than your normal pop song. Boy George and his four-note range could not have sung this song, for instance. The singer had a nice mellow mid-range voice and could have been an alto lady or a tenor fellow.
The chorus had a parallel but self-contradictory structure in which it asked the same question twice, and answered it first *yes *and then no.
X Y Z? Oh yes definitely… (or something meaning basically that)
X Y Z? No, not at all.
I’m pretty sure “No, not at all” is an actual quote. But nothing I’ve got by Googling [“no not at all” lyrics] is it.
I think the beginning of the “X Y Z” part may have been “Did I”. but I’m not sure. I think the actual question in each iteration of the chorus was slightly different.
Anyone have any ideas? All help very welcome.