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Listening to: Aimee Mann - I'm With StupidThe problem with naming your album "I'm With Stupid" is that you immediately associate yourself and the album with every idiot who has ever worn a shirt that says that. Now, it's not that the shirt was awful, it started out innocent enough, but ended up being, as far as I'm concerned, the beginning of a new era in the t-shirt universe. An era that has quickly become the dark ages of the t-shirt. The era I'm talking about is the era of "Hi, I'm Mr. Right, Someone Told Me You Were Looking For Me", "Sarcasm: Just One of My Many Talents", and "F.B.I. Female Body Inspector". The worst part is that we are still, to this day, drowning in an unstoppable sea of these travesties. Nobody reads those shirts and thinks, "Oh, man, that's good, I should tell that person I appreciate their shirt." Ninety percent of the time, I don't even read shirts that have more than three words of writing on the front, because you just know what's coming, and what's coming is inevitably a real disappointment. So, without really thinking about it, before I played any songs from this album, I prepared myself for a disappointment.
Fortunately, this CD starts off pretty cool; with a robust use of the f-word immediately offending my delicate ears. Just kidding. Anyway, after the opening track, the disappointment I expected slowly crept back and bit me. Not great, sorta grungy, definitely different than "The Forgotten Arm", and not really in a good way.
We're still buds, Aimee, just a little less so.
Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid ★★★★★✩✩✩✩✩
Favorite Tracks: Long Shot, Choice In The Matter
Least Favorite Tracks: Superball, Par For The Course
1. Long Shot
2. Choice In The Matter
3. Sugarcoated
4. You Could Make A Killing
5. Superball
6. Amateur
7. All Over Now
8. Par For The Course
9. You're With Stupid Now
10. That's Just What You Are
11. Frankenstein
12. Ray
13. It's Not Safe
8 things:
I have to disagree with you Ryan. I think the age of stupid sentence T's has made way for "Super douche" T's. I went shopping last week, and was hardpressed not to find a SDT. That's surprisingly close to what you would get from one of these dude's wearing a SDT.
You know the one's I'm talking about. Really full of designs with some kind of shiny part, uggghhh. I did end up buying a pretty douchey shirt, but hey, it was $7. Anyone makes a comment, it's as good as burned.
Yeah, I agree with you completely. I didn't mean that we haven't progressed to further idiotic t-shirts, simply that there were more and more of the stupid sentence T's. You're totally right about the SDT's. (That's pretty close to STD's, we could make jokes about the connections between SDT's and contracting an STD, but that's for another time.)
Sometimes I try to go buy t-shirts at Winners, and they are almost all those SDT's. The worst offender, in my opinion, is that Ed Hardy fellow. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Not sure who Ed Hardy is, but I'm going to go look now for sure.
Oh right. I remember that TMZ about it haha.
I do not watch or endorse the watching of TMZ, and this statement may or may not be fully truth.
Ian, your last statement seems to be pretty ambiguous.
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