Why I will always love Blondie

"one way or another, i'm gonna win you ... i'm gonna meet you" at first this is a promise, which as the song progresses becomes slightly stalkerish "and if the lights are all out, i'll follow your boys downtown" but what it is is a fantastic piece of music, it's exciting, it's a piece of pop music that does exactly what it says on the record sleeve she's going to have this man "one way or another" and regardless of whether she's going to go on to be "X Offensive" to him or not becomes irrelevant because Debbie Harry's voice has an amazing captivating power to it, it got me from the moment I heard "Heart of Glass" age 12, I was hooked, smitten and most importantly enthralled. Not only is her voice outstanding but her lyrics, in "Atomic", in what was going to have to be an instrumental section Debbie Harry made the rap as she went along, live on stage. When I first heard Blondie I'd truly never heard anything like it, yeah there was manufactured pop on the radio but nothing with that power to make you go along and enjoy the ride, it's not about the story or the way the album fits together, it's about the glory of the syncopated beats and the richness of that voice. I leave you with this to consider, Blondie performing Maria: