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New Be Your Own Pet Video - "Food Fight!"

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Being an American school kid can suck, but at least rock 'n' roll will always understand. The educational system's trappings have inspired great art like "School's Out," "Hot For Teacher," and on. But the food fight, this is a relatively untapped phenomenon. Is BYOP's cut up to the aforementioned classics' standards? Time will tell. And by that we mean it's only 1:20 in duration so probably not (unless you want you don't mind your movie montage set to looped audio.) But as for band constitution -- punk-loving, young, snotty and fun, ready to throw attitude if you're a bit too touchy -- Be Your Own Pet bring the perfect blend of youthful innocence and punk violence. If there's a band set to pen a food fighting anthem, it's Jemina and the guys. Now that may not be music to Interscope's ears (the irony of a song with a pugilistic title coming on the heels of Interscope's fear-of-violence track omission is pretty perfect), but it definitely works for ours.

Get Awkward is out via Ecstatic Peace/Universal.

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Wow... That was fucking retarded...

What a bunch of hacks. Why do young bands think they can get away with just ripping off (obscure to them) acts from before they were born? This is just an attempt at appealing to people too ignorant to know better, or appealing to plus 30-something journalists who wish to remain children. It's immoral, artistically filthy, and just plain amateurish... I wash my hands of this generation.

Posted by: Huph profile link at 03/28/08 11:33 AM | Reply
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A "perfect blend of youthful innocence and punk violence"? Was that copied from a press release or something??

Posted by: grayflannelsuit profile link at 03/28/08 12:33 PM | Reply
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is this website corporate owned? it seems like you guys are pushing shit bands for money or something?

Posted by: serg at 03/28/08 1:44 PM | Reply
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why all the byop hating? sure their lyrics are stupid but it's all in good fun. lighten up....

Posted by: lint at 03/28/08 4:39 PM | Reply
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i never hear more than one note sung by this girl ....ever. i mean, even the background voices sing more.

Posted by: luke at 03/29/08 12:05 AM | Reply
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