Jeremy Strikes Again

This is an episode of Carl's Pop Song Reviews. Jeremy sings the song "Drive By", a song that Carl doesn't like. Carl thinks the lyrics are terrible and make no sense.

Memorable Quotes
Carl: Let me take you back a couple decades.

(screen shows Phineas playing a guitar and singing)

Carl: See, back in the nineties, we had a genre of music that we called "Adult Alternative". It was a genre driven from the grunge from the nineties, but was intended for people who didn't like the sheer loudness and edginess from those bands. And instead of being inspired by metal or hard rock, it took its inspiration from a variety of different genres, like the college rock from the eighties, singers from the indie scene, and the Roots' rock from the seventies.

(screen shows Candace singing "Firework")

Carl: Easy listening seems to be taking over again, and most likely, you'll hear something made from studio (bleep)s, such as "Firework" or "Just the Way You Are", rather than stuff written by actual artists.

Carl: So, I guess I should be grateful that among the last remaining hitmakers in this genre, we still have a band like Jeremy and the Incidentials around to keep things interesting. Yeah, believe it or not, I called Jeremy and the Incidentials "interesting". Believe me, I would have never said a band who made the song "Calling All Angels" was interesting. When they first came out, I thought they were a bunch of lame Love Handel wannabes. Even their name was dull.

Carl: (in reference to Jeremy and the Incidentials) That's just the kind of band that Jeremy and the Incidentials are. They don't seem to be very interesting, they weren't anyone's life in high school, no one doodled their band logo on their notebooks, no one had posters in their locker. Who cares, right? So what changed in their late period work that I suddenly find so interesting?

TBC