Word: apeshit
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...busy being served / Sworn enemy of the waitresses there”) but here it works, lending a darker edge to an otherwise exuberant song. Many of the tracks gradually escalate in intensity to the brink of self-destruction. Just when a song is about to devolve into apeshit hysterics, Bejar invariably rescues it, slowly luring the melodies back to something catchy. “I’m not the kind to tell you what is true and what is totally out of control,” he quips on “Foam Hands...
First, a party trick. Freshmen: walk up to any group of five or more upperclassmen. Ask if any of them has taken Science B-62, “The Human Mind.” Step back and watch. Without fail, at least one of them will go apeshit...
...warm embrace. Adored by hordes of sobbing alterna-teens, Oberst has generated an elaborate cult of personality that often obscures the mediocrity of his music. Photographs of his skinny indie-bod and endearing bedhead hair frequently appear in the music press, which predictably enough, has gone apeshit over his weepy singer-songwriter crooning (as if atoning for the loss of Elliott Smith). Thanks to their relentless firehose of hype, Oberst has become the pouty poster boy for an uninspired mass of faux-alternative artists whose gentle yet tearful lyrical confessions sell millions of records to disaffected youth squealing...
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