A double A side from Connie and, unlike her previous 'Who's Sorry Now', she keeps the cork in the venom bottle on both and instead showcases two other strings to her bow. Contemporary familiarity with 'Stupid Cupid' makes it surprising that 'Carolina Moon' was regarded as the lead song here, but it's not difficult to see the appeal of its lush, country balladry. Connie's voice is given acres of prairie space to yearn for her lover over in a spooky swoon that provided KD Lang with her entire career, whilst the underlying panorama of plucked guitar and harmonica safely roots the song to terra firma.On the flip, 'Stupid Cupid' is a far more frothy affair where Connie seems to have borrowed Alma Cogan's laugh for her voice with a glorious hiccup on the 'stupid' that's mirrored by a single detuned twang of a guitar string. The blowsy saxophone and handclaps give it a virtual continental feel, and though Connie is picking a fight ("Hey hey set me free, stupid Cupid stop picking on me"), she's not fooling anyone - she's only too glad to be "acting like a lovesick fool". The lightness of touch in 'Stupid Cupid' belies the craftsman's hand in its construction; with not a note wasted or out of place the barely two minutes of play time wraps up the charm of the past and the thrill of the present in one neat package that personifies for me what seven inches of vinyl were made for.
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