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Third Eye Blind's charming new single!
[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Seriously, this has to be an intentional effort to kill pop music out of spite. I don't know what else the fuck is going on. I caught the last thirty seconds of it on the way home from work yesterday. It was just that idiot singing "WHEN I SEE YOU... WHEN I <b>SEE</b> YOU" for the entire time. The song ended, and the DJ made fun of it. 30 seconds isn't that long, so I thought nothing of how repetitive it was. However, I just went to the mall for lunch. It takes me two minutes to get out of my parking lot and to where I turn to get to the mall. This song was playing and for the entire two minutes it was nothing but that guy chanting "WHEN I SEE YOU." I didn't have any real opinion of these assholes before this song -- the uncut version of 'Semi-Charmed Life I thought was OK, but everything else they've done (and I'm reluctantly admitting that I do otherwise pretty much dig what is called "pop punk" or emo) was unremarkable. I know their second CD sold worse than their first one, but the tactic they have employed to get back to where they were selling is apparently sko Scorched Earth "annoy the entire fucking country" plan. I don't see how pop music, beyond boy bands and the Spears/Aguilera segment, survives this song. Worse, I don't see how it *should* survive, or that it <i>deserves</i> to. If 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' killed off hair metal, then surely 'Blinded' here has done the same to pop -- and worse, it did it from within. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! [/quote]