This is one of those songs that I love but also rant about.
It's a great song. There are so many great versions; Cyndi Lauper, Roy Orbison, Celine Dion... I really like the version by The Protomen too. It's like the Roy Orbison version, but ramped up and more epic.
BUT!
I just want to say to the two guys who wrote this song... "No, it's totally not alright".
Seriously, if I was dating a guy and I thought he was 200 miles away but he got horny and drove up, snuck and crept in to my bed and woke me up by [surprise sexy times] I'd wake up terrified assuming it's an intruder and lamp him. If it didn't end in fatality it would end in "We need to talk".
And you know! You know by listening to the song the guy knows he's doing something terrible, or he wouldn't have to ask "is that alright?" so much. No it's not alright!
And I don't know if this is just what I get out of it, but I feel like he thinks he's earned his sexy times just because he drove so far, and he's going to be mega pissed off and act like a pest if he gets home to "go away, I'm sleeping!". There's definitely a sense of entitlement I get out of these lyrics.
The fact it's sometimes covered by women doesn't make it better. It's still creepy.
And I know this was written before mobile phones so phoning to ask "is that alright" before driving all that way isn't that simple.
This song... I have so many problems with it and I don't think of it as romantic at all, but I still like it, and I really like the various artists who've performed it. I suppose that's a bit weird.
