I'm mainly doing this because I thought of a really good blog name. I actually thought of it 6-7 years ago, swear to gahd, but never made a blog, because I never got around to it. I guess partly because of laziness, partly because the world absolutely does not need another blog. Well, too bad now. For some reason on this very evening I feel inclined to finally make it and write some shit down. If nothing else, at least I'll be able to tell people the name and they might chuckle for a second. So thats pretty cool.
I've always wanted to write something about this song. For some reason I always thought that if I started a blog I'd put this song in the first entry and just talk about it. Weird, I know. Not really sure why. Maybe because its just a fun song. Its catchy and I've always liked it. I like catchy pop songs. Scratch that, I love them. Holy fuck do I love them. This is a bar rock song thats also a catchy pop song. Its not the one song by this band that everyone knows, so I like that too. Its the first song and lead single off the album after the Closing Time album. Expectations for more catchy bullshit were probably pretty high. But really, I'm not sure if this song is schlocky cheese or not. From what I've gathered as a casual fan of Semisonic, they have some actual substance to them that they don't get much credit for. For shame!
The video is a bit painful. I just watched it for possibly the first time ever. I'm not sure what happened. I think a lot of chemistry-related things. People were coming together and then getting pissed and one woman almost got hit by a car, that was weird. But the driver swerved and then met this other lady, so, hooray. I'm always down for some Rube Goldberg stuff. I've liked that wackiness since I was a kid. I used to make these crazy drawings of what I wanted my bedroom to look like, they mostly involved creative ways for me to watch TV and drink soda, but they were kinda inspired by Rube Goldberg in retrospect. Semisonic and I must have that in common.
So, the video, so very 90's-y. Part of me wants to watch it a second time. I won't. Dan Wilson (lead singer, duh) had some embarrassing dance moves. I mean, by this point Semisonic had probably made lots of dollars from Closing Time, so he was like, fuck it, I want to dance like a weiner and thats just what I'll got-damn do. I think he's still writing pop songs somewhere, right? This is the type of question that the internet could answer for me in three seconds, but I'd rather just leave it to mystery. There's no more mystery, you know? Wow that was a profound insight that I was probably the first person to ever make, thats neat.
Alright, that is more than enough about that. Excellent first blog entry about Semisonic. Surprisingly almost entirely written with very little knowledge of Semisonic. Also, I think I read somewhere that the drummer wrote a book about being a band and touring and managing money and stuff. The few times I noticed him in the video he looked pissed. He was probably busy thinking up business strategies.
