A wise man once told me that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure songs, only jaded opinions. He was drunk, and lying to make me feel better about whichever crap band I was banging on about, but he had a point. If you enjoy a song then don't let anyone tell you you can't because it's uncool.
I'm not mentioning this because I'm in need of vindication, of course. I'm unabashed about my love for the band Hellogoodbye, and especially their new album, Would It Kill You?, which you should totally go buy. But the song which has arrested me this week is an early song of theirs, in fact the first song they (or their frontman Forrest) wrote. It's called 'Bonnie Taylor Shakedown [2k1]'.
It appears on their self-titled EP which I only came by recently and which was knocking around before their major label debut Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! and assault on the mainstream with their uber-poppy mid-to-late noughties hit 'Here (In Your Arms)'. Don't pretend you don't remember it. You do, and you love it. Stop lying.
Anyway, it's twee, it's high school, it's sickening teenage synthy twaddle and I love it. It's a damn catchy chorus which I can't stop humming to myself at work. I think it's because it tastefully borrows just a couple of lines lyrically from an old folk song and makes them into modern pop, which is always a winner. Check it out.
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