Look, I want the guy in the song to get the girl, but unless movies and TV have lied to me, the geek only gets the girl after he accomplishes something: punches out the school bully, pays the prom queen $1000 to pretend to be his girlfriend, teaches a mermaid or possibly a living department store mannequin about life on dry land, wins some kind of zany ski race, crosses his DNA with that of a fly, becomes a Jedi Knight, etc. Just waiting out the first two-thirds of a three minute punk-inflected pop song hardly qualifies.
If it was a Nerf Herder song, (or insert any other equivalent turn-of-the-millenium era geek-rock band here) the kid WOULD have hung himself in the third verse. In fact, I think that actually is a Nerf Herder song. I don't even want to think what a dour old Calvinist like Rivers Cuomo would make of this generation of instant gratification geek rockers.
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Date: 2005-03-21 02:35 pm (UTC)Look, I want the guy in the song to get the girl, but unless movies and TV have lied to me, the geek only gets the girl after he accomplishes something: punches out the school bully, pays the prom queen $1000 to pretend to be his girlfriend, teaches a mermaid or possibly a living department store mannequin about life on dry land, wins some kind of zany ski race, crosses his DNA with that of a fly, becomes a Jedi Knight, etc. Just waiting out the first two-thirds of a three minute punk-inflected pop song hardly qualifies.
If it was a Nerf Herder song, (or insert any other equivalent turn-of-the-millenium era geek-rock band here) the kid WOULD have hung himself in the third verse. In fact, I think that actually is a Nerf Herder song. I don't even want to think what a dour old Calvinist like Rivers Cuomo would make of this generation of instant gratification geek rockers.