N URFACE!
This morning on my way to work, I was behind a big-ass truck with a personalized license plate that said "N URFACE." If it was supposed to make me feel threatened or something, it didn't work. I just giggled.
I recently purchased the new Train CD ("My Private Nation") and I must say that I'm pretty disappointed. I'm a big Train fan, but this CD does not live up to their standards. I like the music enough, but the lyrics are just awful. Gems like "tell me what it's like to be the house on the hill/ the number one diet pill" or "an airplane's faster than a cadillac/ and a whole lot smoother than a camel's back" or especially "my dad used to tell me I was lazy/ I got dance moves like Patrick Swayze/ I’m the leftover turkey for the world’s mayonnaisey/ the star next to the moon" make me embarrassed to be listening. It seems like they designed this album to capitalize on past hits such as "Meet Virginia" and "Drops of Jupiter," which had lyrics that didn't make sense--but they rhymed. Those songs are catchy, but far from their best work. I mean, there are a few songs I really like, but most of the songs on this album are exactly like the aforementioned hits: catchy but just a bunch of jumbled rhyming words. And there's definitely not as much feeling or that classic Train sound as the last two albums (I miss the banjos!). Check out those cringe-inducing lyrics here--if you dare.
And last but not least, a happy birthday shoutout to my sister (who doesn't even read this) on her golden birthday. Seventeen on the seventeenth!
I recently purchased the new Train CD ("My Private Nation") and I must say that I'm pretty disappointed. I'm a big Train fan, but this CD does not live up to their standards. I like the music enough, but the lyrics are just awful. Gems like "tell me what it's like to be the house on the hill/ the number one diet pill" or "an airplane's faster than a cadillac/ and a whole lot smoother than a camel's back" or especially "my dad used to tell me I was lazy/ I got dance moves like Patrick Swayze/ I’m the leftover turkey for the world’s mayonnaisey/ the star next to the moon" make me embarrassed to be listening. It seems like they designed this album to capitalize on past hits such as "Meet Virginia" and "Drops of Jupiter," which had lyrics that didn't make sense--but they rhymed. Those songs are catchy, but far from their best work. I mean, there are a few songs I really like, but most of the songs on this album are exactly like the aforementioned hits: catchy but just a bunch of jumbled rhyming words. And there's definitely not as much feeling or that classic Train sound as the last two albums (I miss the banjos!). Check out those cringe-inducing lyrics here--if you dare.
And last but not least, a happy birthday shoutout to my sister (who doesn't even read this) on her golden birthday. Seventeen on the seventeenth!