Avril Lavigne's awkwardly autobiographical song, "Here's To Never
Growing Up" came out last year, but I only recently noticed that it describes "singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs." One of my earliest blog posts was to complain about a Katy Perry song that made reference to making out in a Mustang to Radiohead. I questioned the likelihood of that situation - or any part of it - actually happening.
Once again, the band is being referenced in a way that doesn't seem to fit. Are they really a band you sing along to, especially at the top of your lungs? I'm trying to picture anyone, much less Lavigne, singing one of their songs in public with a youthful abandon. First there are the melancholy melodies that don't lend themselves to singing at high volume. Then there are the cryptic lyrics. Go out in the streets and yell "Kicking and squeeling Gucci little piggy" and see what happens
But the stranger lesson is that apparently Gen-Y sees Radiohead as the exemplar of youthful joy. Is that weird? I wonder what band represents experimental rejection of traditional structure to them?
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