I should add, I got no beef with Wheatus. They're catchy little buggers. I just think it's all a little too easy.
My friend Steve addressed the complex American Hi-Fi / Wheatus issue in an off-list email I feel I must post here.
So, I have not heard this American Hi-Fi song but I did read likely error-riddled lyrics online, which, when you come right down to it, is probably the way most musicians wish people would approach their art. I don't have a lot of substance to support these feelings, but after reading the lyrics, I feel these things.
"The geeks get the girls" is meant to be a joyful exagerration of the actual event, which was one geek getting one girl. That may seem obvious, but it reduces the question from "How do the geeks get the girl?" to "How did _that_ geek get the girl?" And I think the answer is: it's the girl. I mean, said geek certainly did nothing to help his case, so it almost has to boil down to external factors. God in the machine, you suggest? No no. As all geeks must believe, there are woman who will love us in spite of -- heck, in large part because of -- the awkwardness and the dice and the Weezer allusions and references to X-men plots from 1986.
Thus, what I propose is that American Hi-Fi intends to unteach the very attitude you blogged, and bring this back around to all the geeks in the world: you don't need knock-down drag-out teen fights and ski races to win the girl. Be you, and your time will come. A glorious hymn of hope and optimism!
Or it could just be that your paragraph about the song was about three sentences deeper than anyone in the band approached the lyrics. These guys did rhyme "week" with "weak," afterall.
Too stoned, Nintendo,
~Steve
He may have something there. At any rate, it's this kind of determined application of thought to an idiotic question that makes me cry to the heavens, why doesn't this guy have a LiveJournal?
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My friend Steve, my very good friend Steve...
Date: 2005-03-21 07:21 pm (UTC)My friend Steve addressed the complex American Hi-Fi / Wheatus issue in an off-list email I feel I must post here.
So, I have not heard this American Hi-Fi song but I did
read likely error-riddled lyrics online, which, when you come right down
to it, is probably the way most musicians wish people would approach their
art. I don't have a lot of substance to support these feelings, but after
reading the lyrics, I feel these things.
"The geeks get the girls" is meant to be a joyful exagerration of the
actual event, which was one geek getting one girl. That may seem obvious,
but it reduces the question from "How do the geeks get the girl?" to "How
did _that_ geek get the girl?" And I think the answer is: it's the girl.
I mean, said geek certainly did nothing to help his case, so it almost has
to boil down to external factors. God in the machine, you suggest? No no.
As all geeks must believe, there are woman who will love us in spite of --
heck, in large part because of -- the awkwardness and the dice and the
Weezer allusions and references to X-men plots from 1986.
Thus, what I propose is that American Hi-Fi intends to unteach the very
attitude you blogged, and bring this back around to all the geeks in the
world: you don't need knock-down drag-out teen fights and ski races to win
the girl. Be you, and your time will come. A glorious hymn of hope and
optimism!
Or it could just be that your paragraph about the song was about three
sentences deeper than anyone in the band approached the lyrics. These guys
did rhyme "week" with "weak," afterall.
Too stoned, Nintendo,
~Steve
He may have something there. At any rate, it's this kind of determined application of thought to an idiotic question that makes me cry to the heavens, why doesn't this guy have a LiveJournal?