The festival season is upon is, the sun is shining, Glastonbury looks like it will be a submarine festival (check the rook nests: if they’re high, it won’t be dry) and My Chemical Romance have been piss-bottled off-stage. Again. Still, I hear their treatment was not as warranted as Evanescence, who acted somewhat, erm, arrogantly and received a faceful of bladder-fresh urea for their troubles. Wake me up indeed. So, bands that take themselves too seriously not going down too well? Cheer up, oh asymetrical ones, here’s a nice pro/anti emo anthem to check out.
I have been aware of Bowling For Soup’s presence for a while (they formed in ’94 – ah the mighty nineties) but have never actually, really, particularly listened to any of their stuff. I bet it’s happy, I thought to myself. So here I am, 17 years later (bloody hell), finally getting a bit of Soup, and by golly it is happy! Not only does the song revel in a triumphant chorus of ‘I’m Gay,’ in a Daley Thompson controversial T-Shirt explanation and meaning, but it jovially manages to celebrate and humiliate Emo culture at the same time, talking about guys who’ weren’t too popular at school’ then saying it’s okay to be sad and it’s okay to be glad and, basically, I’m gay. A bit Jack Black in the motivational talky bits from Jaret, very Blink 182 in the content, totally Busted in the guitars, it’s infectious, uplifting, fundamentally annoying and will probably outstay it’s welcome after thirty plays, but they will have to be consecutive.
It’s not the cleverest song out this year (that’s probably iLiKETRAiNS ‘Spencer Percival’ IMHO) but it’s the first of a hopeful slew of songs that will eventually soundtrack a happy summer and will have you shake off your winter blues whether you like it or not. Now I’m off to listen to Anathema to get my balance back…
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