What’s the deal with the seething hatred for the pop songs of their commercial peak (especially “Stand” and “Get Up”. I agree that “Radio Song” is anachronistic and pointless though.)? You point out how “Can’t Get There From Here” shows versatility and has a sort of tongue-in-cheek quality that sort of makes them relatable, and isn’t that song if anything a precursor to a song like “Stand”? It is pretty common knowledge how the writing process for ‘Stand’ was a deliberate attempt at making an inane bublegummy pop song as an homage to 60′s pop groups like fx The Monkees, and I personally feel it is pretty dead-on. ‘Shiny Happy People’ might be stupid but it was based on a gruesome piece of chinese propaganda which kind of gives it an edge, and it kind of reminds me of “Stand” in that it almost feels like an excercise in the sometimes boggling simplicity of effective pop music. It was a hit after all.

Probably because it’s a cover. Or obviously because it is…

goddamnit this song is so boring…