Wrote this on a friend’s Facebook feed about Johnny Boy’s 2004 single “You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve,” which remains one of my absolute favorite songs of all time.  

(I wanted to be fancy and embed the song into this post, but I couldn’t figure out how. So I’ll just link you to JB’s MySpace page, instead: http://myspace.com/johnnyboyuk)

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Part of the song’s brilliance is that no one really knows what the lyrics are, due to the way the vocals are mixed, so it sort of invites you to map your own phrases and meanings onto it. You invest yourself in the song because it gives you no other choice. I’m sure that’s a large part of why we were all so obsessed with it when it came out. That, and because everyone loves the Wall of Sound.

“To see the sleek mystique reversed…”

At least that’s what I think she said. And I don’t want to be told any different.