I was listening to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters and marveling at the brilliant lyric explaining how smoke gets in your eyes because your heart is on fire. Then fascinated by the strings in the bridge imitating Bolero – and even more amazed by the outro. There are like 4 or 5 different moments that each could serve as great outros. I had to look up who arranged it – Buk Ram. I never hear of him. Reading all about him now. He was also a songwriter, wrote Only You. The lyric to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is almost 100 years old, written for a broadway musical by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. People born in the 19th century. I found a recording of it from 91 years ago. The styles are so different for what was popular. There have been at least seven different popular styles over these 90 years which pass for contemporary. The ideas of what the singers took for song in 1933 vs. what is taken for song currently have so little common except breath leaving the throat. I know to imagine future singing trends one must imagine what seems implausible or ridiculous.