I can perfectly justify summing up all of Bowling For Soups work in one review. It all sounds the same. Every single song (half song technically, as they're all about 2 minutes, ideal ADHD fodder) deals with the same subjects: Highschool, and juvenile punning about biological functions. The ideal listener of BFS, therefore, is just reaching puberty.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a bit wierd coming from a group of 30 year olds? They sing about highschool, willies and poo. The only logical conclusion is that they're trying to lure 13 year olds into their gingerbread houses. Next thing you know, they'll be dangling children over balconies and making them wear Spider-Man masks.
I had the misfortune to see them live a while back, and whilst the ticket price was worth it to see the support act, Zebrahead, BFS themselves managed to be the childish shits I expected. Unable to play for more than two minutes at a time (no doubt they needed a break to move their fingers into another chord position) they talk incessantly about boners and make crappy jokes about their fat guitarist. Many people respect them for not succumbing to the trend of having skinny, attractive people in popular music, but they're missing the point. OBESITY IS UNHEALTHY. And they're popularising it? By playing guitar badly? This is a sad state of affairs. Especially when many talented musicians smoke and are villified for it. For example Slash, guitarist to Velvet Revolver, and formerly of Guns 'n Roses. I'm even gonna provide a citation, for the sake of journalistic integrity.
http://ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/slash_vs_smoking_ban.html
So back to BFS, a group of wannabe paedophiles who are yet to progress past psychosexual development, with minimal musical skill. Avoid at all costs I say.
-Az
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