Tainted Love - From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar Potato ‘Fascinating… we often hear a

‘Fascinating… we often hear a barn owl hooting in a stand of pine trees behind the house

Catherine Clover

To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time

tasting unbaked chocolate balls

and therefore on the border of crackpottery”

Tainted Love - From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar Potato ‘Fascinating… we often hear aTitled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. Sometimes extreme, this twist to the conventional romantic ballad spans across gender and generational boundaries to subvert our understanding of both the genres function and its behavior. Each chapter of Tainted Love takes