I Blame the Postal Service

If you ask anyone I know, they'd agree that I've got a pretty high tolerance for what most consider shitty popular music. I listen to the Get Up Kids and My Chemical Romance somewhat regularly. I've seen (and, for the most part, enjoyed) Fall Out Boy play live recently. Panic! on the Disco even makes me smile a little, and I've never hidden the fact that I'm a fan of The Killers.

So I get an email from the publicist for the band Say Anything. Lets forget about the band name for now. That's a debate for someone slightly older than me. I had heard of them. Am pretty sure they're aiming for the under 18, FUSE crowd. AKA my wheelhouse. I know they've sold out Bowery fairly quickly and I'm pretty sure they're on a major label. Prolly primed to be real big someday. I thought I owed it to myself to at least listen to the song they sent, titled "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too."

This song literally made me sick to my stomach.

I've had music give me an instant headache (Hi Dillinger Escape Plan!) but I really can't remember the last time a song made me physically ill. And it gets even worse after the first verse. Yes, it goes downhill after the lyric "I'd be chatting on the Interweb." The chorus, my god, the chorus. If you don't get any further than that, there's also some mention of shul and a Rabbi. I think. Maybe I had just become completely delirious by that point.

Anyway, I dare you to listen. Maybe the rest of their stuff is descent, maybe they're alright guys, but this song is the absolute worst. Makes LFO's 'Summer Girls' sound like a lost Pavement b-side.

Say Anything - Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too (mp3)

If somebody has the ability to mash this up with the new Mets theme song, please let me know. Thanks.

Comments

[david]

SHE TOUCHED HERSELF!!!

[Ryan97ou]

holy crap...these guys have to be joking? Right....please...it hasn't gotten that bad has it? please someone tell me this is a joke.

btw - the pavement line made me almost spit out my water

[J]

I'm not even going to try it.

Beware publicists who have the words "Big" (with one or two g's) and "Daddy" in their IM address...

[bmk]

thanks jeff for absolutely ruining my day.

[wes]

oh snap! haha i bet you and morrissey would get along well, no punches pulled!

i don't even mind the melody, production or even the way-too-affected singing much, but the words oh man, totally kills anything remeeding about these guys (the name doesn't help either)

just out of curiousity i checked, and yes they are on J Records.

[Max Power]

Cheese on bread my soul is BLEEDING!!!

[Robyn]

The first time I listened to this song, I didn't even get to the chorus. (It was obvious after a few seconds that this wasn't my kind of song.)

...But you made me curious enough to try it again.

Oh. God. Umm. Uh. NOOOO WHY?!

...Scarily though, I can imagine a lot of people liking it. Just no one I know personally.

[Forte]

this is not as bad a Federline's Papazoe or whatever it's called.

These guys did sell out the bowery ballroom for their May show...hell, maybe they'll even move it to webster hall!

Dumb question #1 - what's shul?

[david]

i wish i was a teenager.

[david]

i wish i were a teenager.

[sam]

Is it just me or does this guy have some weird resemblence to Ben Folds...? You know, a Ben Folds that makes me want to throw my computer across the room...

[Patrick]

This band is fucking terrible. The absolute worst of emo crap. What's sad is just how many kids think this shit is good. Ugh.

[george]

You'd think that someone involved in this(the producer, someone at the label, etc.) would've spoken up and confessed that they thought the song was completele garbage.

At first I was hoping it was kind of like a shitty joke song ala Bowling for Soup, but then it became sadly apparent that this band meant it.

[Nate]

This song ruined my day too. :(

[GoldenD]

It wasn´t that bad, stupid and forgettable maybe

this song kind of sucks, but their debut cd "is a real boy" is actually one of the best, and most criminally slept- on cds of the last year.

you should probably do more research into this band and frontman max bemis before you start bashing them. he has been around for a relatively long time and there is actually a really interesting story involved. if you have ever been to one of his shows, you would know that actually a lot of the crowd is in their 20s. nice try though.

He didn't bash the band, just the song. Which sucked. Back off, fanboy. No amount of backstory justifies that crap.

back off, fanboy? actually i'm a girl sweetheart and i never said i was a fan. i just have respect for max and what he is doing.

are you retarded? its a joke song...

[Fante]

This song supercedes any song that is being played on the radio right now and you should be hoping that it gets on to the mainstream. Why? The way his lyrics self consciously make fun of all the stuff we hate should make this our sarcastic anthem. You realize that all of the tools that listen to LFO are going to hear this song and blindly call it their new favorite thing when in reality the compostion/lyrics/production all mock those very songs and listeners. Please give Max Bemis' (the front man for Say Anything) last album "Is a Real Boy..." a listen. It is some of the smartest music i've heard in a long time. Just don't take it too seriously because the band (while concisely pulling off their sound) is sneering through every chrous and harmony.

[Sarah]

From what I can tell, most of you are very undereducated when it comes to Say Anything's history. First of all, when Max Bemis was writing ...Is/Was a Real Boy, he was going through mental problems that accompany his bipolar disorder. He is not trying to be 'emo' and heaven forbid they be slightly 'popluar'. Go listen to Admit It!!! - I'm sure you'd love that song of theirs.

[Dime]

(Why do you blame the Postal Service?)

I can't see a single logical argument as to why this song is supposedly so bad. Please note for the future: there IS a difference between "this song is god-awful" and "I don't like this song".

love it

omgz lyke say anything is the sux0rz.

dude, theyre gritty for a reason. sarcasm prevails, fuck the naysayers. don't you get it?