This entire discussion is hilarious. Has anyone complaining about the lyrics of this song listened to the new EP or Third Eye Blind in general? How seriously do you think we’re supposed to take a band with lines like, “Why can’t you be/like a waterpik shower massager/a sweet reliable machine”?
Lyrically, what’s remarkable about Third Eye Blind is how utterly ridiculous and fun some moments and songs are juxtaposed with moments that are profoundly serious.
The song is simple, it’s catchy, it’s unashamed, unabashed pop-rock construction. It’s tongue-in-cheek both in sound and content. It’s fully self-aware, satirizing bubblegum pop.
This is like watching Army of Darkness and thinking it’s just stupid. Of course it’s stupid, it’s supposed to be stupid, it’s reveling in it’s stupidity. When this moment of profound energy and five-part harmony comes out as “Young Gay Republicans!” Third Eye Blind is taking full stock of how friendly this song sound, how light and digestible every moment in the song is, and is, with full awareness, pushing the realms of the absurd.
What makes moments like this even more fun is that the way Jenkins decides to mark his awareness of the absurdity of his own music is to talk about absurdity in our own culture from his perspective.
I don’t understand why people are looking at something that is meant to be light, fun, airy, overly digestible, corny, etc., and not realizing it doesn’t take itself seriously, never was meant to be taken seriously, and does so by discussing the very things that Jenkins views as the societal equivalent.
This entire discussion is hilarious. Has anyone complaining about the lyrics of this song listened to the new EP or Third Eye Blind in general? How seriously do you think we’re supposed to take a band with lines like, “Why can’t you be/like a waterpik shower massager/a sweet reliable machine”?
Lyrically, what’s remarkable about Third Eye Blind is how utterly ridiculous and fun some moments and songs are juxtaposed with moments that are profoundly serious.
The song is simple, it’s catchy, it’s unashamed, unabashed pop-rock construction. It’s tongue-in-cheek both in sound and content. It’s fully self-aware, satirizing bubblegum pop.
This is like watching Army of Darkness and thinking it’s just stupid. Of course it’s stupid, it’s supposed to be stupid, it’s reveling in it’s stupidity. When this moment of profound energy and five-part harmony comes out as “Young Gay Republicans!” Third Eye Blind is taking full stock of how friendly this song sound, how light and digestible every moment in the song is, and is, with full awareness, pushing the realms of the absurd.
What makes moments like this even more fun is that the way Jenkins decides to mark his awareness of the absurdity of his own music is to talk about absurdity in our own culture from his perspective.
I don’t understand why people are looking at something that is meant to be light, fun, airy, overly digestible, corny, etc., and not realizing it doesn’t take itself seriously, never was meant to be taken seriously, and does so by discussing the very things that Jenkins views as the societal equivalent.