Is "Go to Current Song" supposed to flash the song?

Since upgrading to iTunes 10.4 about a week ago, whenever I use "Go to Current Song", iTunes jumps to the current song and then flashes it (the background color changes from blue to gray and back a few times). It didn't do this before iTunes 10.4.
Does it happen to everyone else? Is this supposed to happen? Is there any way to disable it? It is annoying; I preferred the old way, especially since now, after the song flashes, it will sometimes have a blue background and sometimes a gray one, so it isn't even consistent with its design.

Thanks for figuring that out.
I thought that command-L was working when I first switched to iTunes 11, but then it wasn't working anymore. That's the ticket: I changed the display to show the sidebar.
Still, I'd like to be able to use the command-L feature whether I'm showing the sidebar or not.
I'd also like it if iTunes would keep showing the currently playing song when in Grid or Artist view modes. It doesn't, so I have to keep using command-L to see the current song info.

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