fun. - Some Nights
The US mainstream scene is an odd place. You think you've got it sussed with your pithy remarks about Flo Rida, Katy Perry and Chris Brown and then out of a blue a totally random folksy band will burst into chart-topping stardom. Whether this is due to Superbowl advertisements and a guest feature from the undeniably talented & lovely Janelle Monáe - single-handedly responsible for the rise of "where the hell is the shortcut for that accent?" buzz up and down America - or just a genuinely talented band being rewarded is anybody's guess: there'll always be bands that the hipsters would prefer to get the success... and they invariably don't. It's just something about their inoffensiveness that uneases me. They have buckets of theatricality and cutenesses about them that's willing to account for the glaring lack of uniquity about them, and even though they drop the F-bomb twice in just the intro it feels more like an out-of-touch take on youth and reve