{"id":3953,"date":"2020-04-04T05:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2020-08-13T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:00:09","slug":"dealer-music-review-take-me-out-to-the-ball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/04\/dealer-music-review-take-me-out-to-the-ball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealer Music Review: \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens when a girl loves America\u2019s pastime so much she insists that all of her dates be at sporting events? Lyricist Jack Norwood and composer Albert Von Tisler give us the answer in their acclaimed single \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game\u201d (now available on iTunes for $0.99). The song is a catchy and upbeat earworm that is sure to make its way into your head, if not onto the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billboard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> charts, pretty soon. Granted, the single is pretty short \u2014 barely two minutes long \u2014 but that\u2019s no reason it can\u2019t compete for airtime with the likes of Taylor Swift or Billie Eilish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Norwood and Von Tisler, already celebrated musicians, reach a new high in \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game,\u201d which, at its core, is a love song. Whether its protagonist, Katie Casey, who \u201cwas baseball mad\/Had the fever and had it bad,\u201d is also in love with her boyfriend or solely with the idea of going to baseball games is left ambiguous. Musical storytelling of this sort is often hard to achieve, but \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game\u201d knocks it out of the park, so to speak, expertly balancing the song\u2019s infectious organ-backed hook with its charmingly carefree desire to \u201croot, root, root for the home team.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grade: <\/span><b>A-<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when a girl loves America\u2019s pastime so much she insists that all of her dates be at sporting events? Lyricist Jack Norwood and composer Albert Von Tisler give us the answer in their acclaimed single \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game\u201d (now available on iTunes for $0.99). The song is a catchy and upbeat earworm that is sure to make its way into your head, if not onto the Billboard charts, pretty soon. Granted, the single is pretty short \u2014 barely two minutes long \u2014 but that\u2019s no reason it can\u2019t compete for airtime with the likes of Taylor Swift or Billie Eilish. Norwood and Von Tisler, already celebrated musicians, reach a new high in \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game,\u201d which, at its core, is a love song. Whether its protagonist, Katie Casey, who \u201cwas baseball mad\/Had the fever and had it bad,\u201d is also in love with her boyfriend or solely with the idea of going to baseball games is left ambiguous. Musical storytelling of this sort is often hard to achieve, but \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game\u201d knocks it out of the park, so to speak, expertly balancing the song\u2019s infectious organ-backed hook with its charmingly carefree desire to \u201croot, root, root for the home team.\u201d\u00a0 Grade: A-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}