Don’t ask me how or why I do it, as some things are best left between myself and my MacBook. However, during one of my recent treks (and this is to your benefit), I’ve come across what might be the single most groundbreaking pre-teen pop trio who have one song to their name which happens to be about wanting to play videogames – in history.
*breath*
Their name is Black Out, and they’re concurrently the greatest and worst thing that has ever happened to me.
There’s something inherently cute about one of their parents being so overly proud as to set up their own website, and if the games ended there it would merely be cute, albeit in a kind-of desperate way. Like Voxtrot. But for the love of fuck, look at the video for their first (and only!) song, featured on the front of their home page. Christ, man, that thing has better production values than some network television shows. And the theater they rented out and filled with fellow pre-teens wearing neon-glow-whateverthefucks on their head? Yeah, check out the image section. It’s the VIRGINIA STATE THEATRE. Either one of these kiddo’s parents has money literally flowing out of their assholes or there’s literally no other bands in their town. It’s also apparently normal for a massively-popular band to get flanked by paparazzi while walking down a cramped corridor? Really?
The song itself? Yeah.
“I don’t wanna go to school
I just wanna be a fool
I just wanna play video games
Everything else is really lame”
It doesn’t help matters much that the poor kid’s voice somehow sounds like a more-retarded Daniel Johnston while taking a shit made of cement and failure.
“Gamecube, XBox, PlayStation 2 / Know all about them – as soon as they’re new”
Well if I do my math correctly, Mr. 11-Year-Old Lead Singer, you’d have been four years old when PS2 came out. You didn’t know anything besides dicking around with legos and contributing to your mother’s Depression. But seriously, no love for Wii, 360, or PS3? PC? Don’t tell me you don’t even play Starcraft or CS or WoW. Madden sure is fun, eh.
*ruffles hair*
But really, who doesn’t JUST WANNA PLAY VIDEOEOOOGAAASMMEEESSSS?
Black Out: They Just Wanna Play Video Games
It is my civic duty to scout this shit out.
Don’t ask me how or why I do it, as some things are best left between myself and my MacBook. However, during one of my recent treks (and this is to your benefit), I’ve come across what might be the single most groundbreaking pre-teen pop trio who have one song to their name which happens to be about wanting to play videogames – in history.
*breath*
Their name is Black Out, and they’re concurrently the greatest and worst thing that has ever happened to me.
There’s something inherently cute about one of their parents being so overly proud as to set up their own website, and if the games ended there it would merely be cute, albeit in a kind-of desperate way. Like Voxtrot. But for the love of fuck, look at the video for their first (and only!) song, featured on the front of their home page. Christ, man, that thing has better production values than some network television shows. And the theater they rented out and filled with fellow pre-teens wearing neon-glow-whateverthefucks on their head? Yeah, check out the image section. It’s the VIRGINIA STATE THEATRE. Either one of these kiddo’s parents has money literally flowing out of their assholes or there’s literally no other bands in their town. It’s also apparently normal for a massively-popular band to get flanked by paparazzi while walking down a cramped corridor? Really?
The song itself? Yeah.
“I don’t wanna go to school
I just wanna be a fool
I just wanna play video games
Everything else is really lame”
It doesn’t help matters much that the poor kid’s voice somehow sounds like a more-retarded Daniel Johnston while taking a shit made of cement and failure.
“Gamecube, XBox, PlayStation 2 / Know all about them – as soon as they’re new”
Well if I do my math correctly, Mr. 11-Year-Old Lead Singer, you’d have been four years old when PS2 came out. You didn’t know anything besides dicking around with legos and contributing to your mother’s Depression. But seriously, no love for Wii, 360, or PS3? PC? Don’t tell me you don’t even play Starcraft or CS or WoW. Madden sure is fun, eh.
*ruffles hair*
But really, who doesn’t JUST WANNA PLAY VIDEOEOOOGAAASMMEEESSSS?
August 1, 2007. Commentary. Leave a comment.