Kill Your Idols
Q. So, my coworker who sits next to me has TERRIBLE taste in music… I’m talking like Sugar Ray / Ben Folds territory. Now, to each his own is my philosophy. However, he’s taken to emailing me YouTube videos of his favorite songs and waiting for my reaction. Do I risk my reputation at the office by pretending to agree with his musical tastes? Or do I tell him how grating it is to listen to “Fly” for the 10th time, meanwhile risking office-neighbor tension from here on out?
A. Aw, he’s out of touch with modern music. I bet he stays up late to watch Last Call with Carson Daly hoping to catch Smash Mouth performing their greatest hits. That’s cute. Sad, but cute.
I think your coworker needs a reality check. For every YouTube link he sends you, reply with a clip that gives a more accurate representation of what the band is doing now.
- With the next Sugar Ray video he emails, you can send him a clip of Mark McGrath hosting The Search for the Next [Pussycat] Doll or sucking up to real celebs on Extra!
- Ben Folds Five performing “Brick” garners a link of Ben judging The Sing Off with those other has beens (here’s looking at you guy from Boys II Men and lead Pussycat Doll) or an article of Folds being mistaken for an already forgotten Chat Roulette meme.
- “Girl on TV,” LFO’s ode to Jennifer Love Hewitt, will get him news on JLH’s current relationships status
with Carson Daly, John Mayer or Jamie Kennedyas still single. - Smash Mouth performing “Walking on The Sun” during MTV’s 1998 Summer Share in Seaside Heights? Open his eyes to the wonders of Jersey Shore fisticuffs and fist pumps in Seaside Heights.
If you play it right, he’ll get the hint without being greatly offended.
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