This is awful

For someone who believes in the importance of community in music as much as I do, I sure do a lot of shit-talking. That said, when Punknews.com brought the existence of this video to my attention I realized that I really wanted to do a post on it.

I don't know exactly what about this bothers me so much. I think I could start by pointing out how blatant a rip-off of New Found Glory this is. Starting with the lead singer, who's voice seems to be calculated to mesh perfectly with that of a 14 year old girl, it progresses through the bros-before-hos lyrical content reminiscent of "My Friends Over You" and layers it all over the sort of bubblegum hardcore riffs and drums that NFG and later Fallout Boy would build their careers upon. Even the promising (to me) gang vocal lead-in to the (albeit cookie-cutter) break down got ruined by the falsetto garbage that carried on straight through.

On the video side of things, the viewer is allowed to pick their poison. Will you find the 'Mean Girls'-esque background action grating to the nerves or will it be the ubiquitous food fight that concludes the video? Will you be more annoyed by the range of stereotypically scenester outfits the band is clad in or concentrating on the obnoxious posturing of the lead singer? The finger-pointing and elbow waving alone are enough to do it for me.

On the positive side, I have to admit that for the godawful bubblegum pop that this is, it is at least done well. The hooks are hooky, the chorus memorable (sort of) and the breakdown is a clearly a breakdown without you needing to worry about getting roundhouse kicked by a guy named 'Somerville Pete.' If I were a teenage girl looking to diversify an mp3 player already overfull with Rufio and Cartel I would snap this up.

Post Show Recap -or- Name-Drop-Link-Fest '09

On Friday night, Kid Omega played in the Fighting Freuds Battle of the Bands here at Clark University. It was fantastic. Playing live with this band has never felt so good. We had fun and it seemed like the crowd did too. We played a short set of Swagger, Overwrought pt. 1, Rainn Wilson, Elysion, and Song for Geoff. We have video of the last three for everyone who wasn't there. You can find the video of Rainn Wilson Stopped the Drought over at Greg's Blog. The video of Elysion is posted over at our band's blog. That was easily my favorite because at the end the crowd clapped and sang along when we asked them to. This leaves me with the video of A Song for Geoff to Sing to post on my blog so hear it is:



We had a great time playing the show and to cap it all off, the battle itself was eventually won by Sister City aka Adam. To be honest I'd never really listened to his stuff but I sat in on some of his practices with Sean, who he borrowed to do the show, and I was really impressed. He writes songs like a pro. You can hear more of his music at their myspace or you can read his blog here.

Final Note: If bouncing from blog to blog in search of videos isn't your thing you can find all three videos from the show on youtube and also on Kid Omega's myspace. Also thanks to James for being our videographer (he's the one you can hear whooping after every song), keep your eyes out for his band Tiger Trap.

A Little Rock History

I'm back from break and now that I'm spending more time in front of my computer hopefully I will be blogging more, but for now I thought I would share a fun fact about this week in the not too recent past. This comes straight from the newsletter of Musician's Friend. The week of January 8th marks the 4 year anniversary of Kid Rock being kicked off the roster of acts to play as part of George W. Bush's inauguration festivities. How awesome is that? He got iced because tons of concerned Christians wrote in an complained about how he promotes a negative lifestyle of sex, drugs and partying. It must have been a bitch to find acts trashy enough to be willing to play at Bush's victory party and yet not so trashy that they offended the delicate sensibilities of the trashy people that elected him.