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I’ve had a couple of songs running through my head continuously over the past few days. They’re both kind of departures for me in that they’re highly poppy emo-type fluff.
The first, “Sugar, We’re Going Down” by Fall Out Boy, is one of those songs that has been around but obscure for some time, then suddenly “breaks” and shoots up the charts for some reason.
It’s #3 on the iTunes top-ten list as of this writing, so I’m clearly not the only one with this track running a loop in my mental background state. The video (see previous link) is oddly entertaining too.
The second song, “Helena” by My Chemical Romance, is reasonably catchy but less listenable over the long term.
The video, however, is too good to miss for anyone in need of a solid belly laugh. This is either an earnest attempt to consummate the archetype of adolescent goth daydreams in music video form, or a brilliant high-concept mockery of everything those sullen souls with the heavy eyeliner think they stand for. It’s a mini-compendium of the essential elements of goth: striking presentational esthetic (clothes, hair, makeup, architecture) and people taking themselves far, far too seriously.
Also, do not ask why the funeral-goers are plumbing their emotional depths through the mechanism of a highly choreographed, Broadway-style dance number. Only Pat Benatar knows the answer to that.
