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I always forget to post about new songs/bands I love, and by the time I remember, I’m really late and its sort of pointless to write about. Actually, I always seem to write about Fueled By Ramen bands, which makes me feel like a total scene girl wannabe or something, but c’est la vie, right? So, here I go again, writing about some scene band that I’m sure most of the world hates, but they make me smile, especially when they parody summer hits like “I Kissed a Girl.”
So I’m not exactly sure how any of this came about, but yesterday I ended up on FriendsorEnemies.com after forgetting about it for a couple months, and Fall Out Boy has this viral marketing thing to support their new album Foile a Deux going on. I really don’t understand it, but that’s not the point. There’s a Decaydance Mixtape available for free download and on it are some new FOB songs and a bunch of songs from Decaydance bands and some of their friends. One of those songs is Cobra Starship’s parody of Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl”, aptly entitled “I Kissed A Boy”.
Now I love Katy Perry, and “I Kissed A Girl” doesn’t bother me as much as it does other people, but Cobra Starship’s version is a thousand times better, sheerly because its making fun of the scene in the truest form. You just have to listen to it, and then you’ll understand:
Ever since I heard the words “I’m not saying it’s your fault, but I know you could have done more,” I’ve been in love with The Kooks. Inside In/Inside Out was fantastic, and their new album Konk is just as great, if not better. The first single from Konk, “Always Where I Need To Be,” is one of those perfect songs that you love to get stuck in your head, but the practice-space/roof top video left something to be imagined. Luckily, they’ve redeemed themselves on the music video front with their new video for “Shine On.”
Not only is the song a real toe-tapper, but the set and fashion in this vid is inspired— do you remember when people used to say that? The blue floral wallpaper could have been ripped from the walls of Chloe Sevigny’s head, and I love the shabby chic-ness of the girls water-logged apartment.
Though the set was wonderful, and I can’t wait to hear the song on the radio (indicating it’s arrival to the world), my favorite part of the entire video is the girl’s head gear. Not only does she get to sport this giant, whimsical flower and feather hair clip in her super-cute pixie-cut hair. I’ve watched the video at least four times and every time I see the floral clip I want it more and more, but she wears this awesome blue, at least I think its blue, chapeau, which again is adorned with the obligatory feather. It reminds me of Sarah Jessica Parker’s hat at the London premier of Sex and the City; The Movie which comes out tomorrow on a side note!
Now that The Kooks are going to have girls around the world dressing up like flappers, what should they do next? Well, I think they should make a video for “Do You Wanna” where everyone is dressed in 80s disco attire, and ask me to be in it!
So, I’ll admit it, Metro Station makes me a little fangirl-ish. I’m not exactly sure why, but I know for sure this time it has nothing to do with the subjective attractiveness on the band members. It may actually have something to do with every song making me want to dance around, shaking my hips sometimes while swinging my head, arms, legs, and what ever else I can swing without falling on my ass. When I realized vocalists, Trace Cyrus and Mason Musso were siblings of some of the Hannah Montana actors, I really wanted to denounce Metro Station because of my loathing of that show, but then one of their songs plays on my i-Pod and I’m right back where I started, making a fool of myself.
“Where is this going?” you ask.
Well, I also happen to have a big thing for their music videos in which there always seem to be a crazy party going on. They constantly make me feel as if I’m not the only one who has a bit of a Metro Station induced flailing problem, except for their newest video for “Shake It,” because instead of casting the usual party monsters as extras, they got real live dance crews. Yup, there are real dancers crumping, breaking, and pirouetting about the screen giving me a slight inferiority complex.
Before you click the play button on the video, I suggest you stand as far away from any furniture or high heels strewn around your room because I can’t be liable for any injury cause by listening to the song. Now, excuse me while I go ice my elbow.
“These guys are aces!” To be completely honest, I’d never say aces, unless I’m playing cards, but after listening to every song on OK Tokyo’s myspace page, aces was all I could think of. Its as if the culmination of their grinding, grungy, powerpop beats, fairly naughty lyrics, and snarky “we stole all the hit songs from the future and made them our own” attitudes took over and sent me straight back to Las Vegas in the 70s.
The guys of OK Tokyo, Sammy Tokyo, Jonny Tokyo, and Matt Tokyo, hail from Reading, UK (or the past/future, it depends who you ask), and are currently saving ears around the UK from the everyone-sounds-the-same doldrum taking over the music world. After only playing a few gigs, OK Tokyo decided to skip to the big-time and play Glastonbury last summer. Well, maybe that’s not exactly how it happened, but since they’re my new favorite rock superheroes, a little extrapolation is necessary. They were actually picked to play Glasto out of hundreds of other bands (I guess that’s rad too, if you’re into that kind of stuff). Unfortunately, the evil genius, Dr. Atlantic O. Cean, is keeping them from playing shows in the US, but I have every faith they will defeat him very soon.
For now listening to their songs over and over again on myspace will have to suffice. Make sure you listen to “TV Evangelist” and “Sums”, they’re ACES and watch their homemade music video for the song “Presidents of Outrageous Behaviour” below (that’s ‘behavior’ for all of you in the US); its hilarious!
For more information on OK Tokyo, visit their website and myspace.
“These guys are aces!” To be completely honest, I’d never say aces, unless I’m playing cards, but after listening to every song on OK Tokyo’s myspace page, aces was all I could think of. Its as if the culmination of their grinding, grungy, powerpop beats, fairly naughty lyrics, and snarky “we stole all the hit songs from the future and made them our own” attitudes took over and sent me straight back to Las Vegas in the 70s.
