Juxtaposition!
ARF ARF
I finally heard “Friday” for the first time, by the way.
What’d’ya think?
Pretty good! Like Jonathan Richman, only bearable.
I’ll be damned. Thanks to my sworn hostility against all things memetic, the first time I actually heard “Friday” in full was at an event called Salon Saloon in Minneapolis (hosted by the inimitable Andy Sturdevant), where it was performed with a sort of flabbergasted giddiness by a small group of locals. I was there with Matos, who was in town visiting, and after the show ended I admitted that after hearing the song in full for the first time it reminded me a bit of Jonathan Richman.
(Matos resoundingly disagreed.)