when you’re happy like a fool, you let it take you over
(or: august 8’s honey from the hive)
posted at 5:25 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
OneRepublic — “Good Life” (from Waking Up
It rather boggles my mind that these guys aren’t considered cool by the current musical cognoscenti, most of whom likely wouldn’t know real cool if it tried to strangle them where they stand. It is my measured opinion that Ryan Tedder, this band’s fabulously fearless leader, is a mad, raging genius, and I’ll take these guys in place of those overblown gatecrashers Arcade Fire any day of the week. (Plus: isn’t there something strangely heartening about the fact that, some two years after this band’s sophomore disc was released and immediately written off for dead after it failed to instantly light the sales charts on fire, the album is still throwing off slow-burning radio hits right, left, and center? Proof positive that it ain’t where you start, it’s where ya finish.)
