a little more mustard

from the lesley gore “lives they lived” (i have basically 8 saved drafts about different folks from this issue, don’t want to deluge anyone, but glenn ford? amelia boynton robinson? god-DAMN):

That first hit [lesley gore’s song], ‘‘It’s My Party,’’ lasted just 2 minutes 21 seconds, and still the phrase came at us more than a dozen times, each one, it seemed, with a little more mustard: ‘‘I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to.’’

2016: WITH A LITTLE MORE MUSTARD