Hello again Internet.
I’m just going to cut the crap and hit the ground running. I’ll sit around and talk in circles about what I think I can and can’t write in the blog later.
This is the most incredible video I’ve ever seen:
I can’t decide how I feel about Andrew WK. On one hand, I think that his music is a little bit goofy. I can’t quite shake the feeling that I’m listening to the music for a beer ad whenever I hear his album.
Andrew WK the band is hard to not get excited about when you find out more about Andrew WK the man, however. You saw the video above. Sure, most of his songs start with some 80′s keyboards, but it’s really hard to stay focused on that when he’s flying around the stage in a fucking wheelchair. If you ever go to his website, it reads like something out of a Tony Robbins book. And I mean, this is the cover of his album “I Get Wet”:
How am I supposed to NOT get pumped up about “Party Hard” when I’m listening to it and looking at that picture? Is it really even possible?
And still! I mean, for Christ’s sake. He’s in a fucking wheelchair, and he’s kicking more ass than 90% of the bands out there. He’s rocking circles around them.
Speaking of bands that I don’t like as much as Andrew W.K. (a.k.a. “All of them” at least until the complete fucking sweetness of the above video wears off and I remember how much I like screaming and breakdowns) I’ve noticed something about Mtv that perplexes me a little bit: They are completely obsessed with the band Flyleaf right now. I don’t know if they play their videos or not, because unless it’s Headbanger’s ball I usually change the channel the second they’re not rotting my brain with Mtv True Life or Cribs, but I do know that pretty much everything they show in between in Flyleaf. The ads for their other shows feature Flyleaf. They play snippets of their songs in between shows. They show random clips of them just sitting around and talking.
I mentioned it to my little sister, and she pointed out to me that they did the same thing with M.I.A. last month. Then I thought about it a little bit more, and I realized that when I was much younger, they did the same thing with Godsmack. I remember how brutal that was. Every five minutes they were like “Lets listen to the next big thing, Godsmack! This is their shitty song for the 100th time in a row! Don’t like it? Fuck you, maybe you’ll learn your lesson if you have to hear it a few hundred more times! You like Godsmack! You fucking LOVE Godsmack!”
If that was any indication, Flyleaf is going to be incredibly popular in a couple of months.
Here’s what I wonder, though: Why do they do that? I mean, I assume that they don’t just decide that they’re going to will everyone that watches their channel to listen to some random band on a whim. My best guess is that record company pays them to do it. Which makes me wonder: How much does it cost, exactly, to get Mtv to ram your band down their viewer’s throats during every moment that they’re not showing a reality show? I bet it’s an astronomically high price.
I was just wondering.
Well, Happy New Year! I missed you, Internet.