Context

This line is from the song "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" by Jackie Wilson, from the album (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (1967).

Backed by the Funk Brothers, the studio band from Motown, Jackie Wilson rocked the airwaves with this blast of positivity. It went to #1 on the Billboard R&B charts back in 1967 and has been making people feel good about their love lives ever since. At least, if their love lives are going well; if not, then this song makes people feel awful.

Here's the song. And here's another famous version by Rita Coolidge.

Where you've heard it

You might've heard it on Ghostbusters 2 in the scene where the boys use this song and gallons of ectoplasm to bring the Statue of Liberty to life (it's a long story if you haven't seen the film). More recently, you might've heard your mom listening to this version by Rod Stewart.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

If this is pretentious, then so are Hallmark cards. And Hallmark cards are just… not pretentious.