Another single from the new album, I think this is even better than the last one I reviewed. This is a song about finally having to ‘fit in’ and become part of the ‘mainstream’ and I imagine this is something of an autobiographical song?
It is a very simple arrangement. Man and guitar, female backing vocals, unobtrusive additional instrumentation is all it takes really: “Everything falls apart/ The van won’t start/ The boy is late for school and that fool on FM is playing mainstream. Lift me out of here...I tell myself I subverted from within...I kid myself I’m happy as I am”.
It is resigned, fatalistic even and it makes me feel bloody terrible about myself but I feel something and that’s a good thing right? A Hey Jude for the ‘teenies’.
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