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Carole King's 1971 album, "Tapestry," garnered some interesting reactions--by 2023 standards.
While men were surprised and somewhat shocked by Carole's lyrics, many women were thankful for--and respectful of--her conduit into the state of feminism at the time.
For example, the Great Song "It's Too Late" was labeled groundbreaking because it featured a woman breaking up with a man! (We highlighted that song, and discussed the album, way back on 6/13/20) https://manage.wix.com/.../09d2e0c8-53c6-4c48.../edit...
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bigger reaction came from "Tapestry's" opening song, "I Feel the Earth Move."
You might not remember this, but "I Feel the Earth Move" was the "A" side of the single---with "It's Too Late" as the "B" side!
Music critics--all of them male--fell all over themselves trying to describe the song. Phrases like "hippie-chick eroticism" were tossed around...and then there was THIS gem, posted a few years later by the All Music online database: "It "sounds like the unleashing of an entire generation of soft-spoken college girls' collective libidos."
Good grief.
Cashbox, on the other hand, missed the point entirely: "a forceful earthquake song."
Radio stations had to make a decision about which side of the record they'd play, and they had three choices:
Billboard Magazine would occasionally count a two-sided hit as one record, and that's exactly what they did in this case.
Therefore, BOTH songs went to #1 on the Hot 100.
And BOTH are "Great Songs of 1971," from Carole King's "Tapestry:" One of the Greatest Albums of the '70s!"
"I Feel the Earth Move:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6913KnbMpHM
"It's Too Late:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKxmnrRVHo
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