I have this bad habit of getting involved with crappy pop songs way after their expiration date. Take for instance my latest mini-binge on Panic at the Disco!’s “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”.

It’s the song…it’s so damn catchy! I can’t stop it. It’s weird. I don’t even listen to all that much music anyway but one day I’m in the car and happen to be scanning the radio and BAM! I can’t get enough! But here’s the thing - I don’t buy the song or buy the album - I just download the song and listen to it over and over again. For four hours. Over and over on repeat.

Then I never want to hear the song again…..

What is with that!???? Ahhhhh!

I should be impervious to this type of pop infection. My musical tastes are varried but defined. I don’t follow specific bands, and I really like albums as opposed to singles. The music I do listen to is made soley of my large but stagnant collection housed locally by iTunes. I don’t watch TV so I don’t care (or even know) who the cool bands of the week are, and I dislike much more “new” music than I enjoy.

But Panic At the Disco! has infected me…at least for a little bit. I know the song is bad for me, I know the band is bad for me, I know admitting this opens me up for all kinds of closet suspicion, and I know I’m wayyyy late to the party…but I JUST WANT TO SING ALONG!!!! AND I CAN’T SING!!!!!

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In my defense, I saw some promotion online for a band named Cartel and I will have you know that Cartel - for me will always be the dope steezey binding still made by Burton. Cartel is not a band - its a boot holder, and a damn fine one at that (tweak those hi-backs, G).

Also I’ve never been infected by Hoobastank….(oh but there was this song for like twenty minutes. That’s only five times in a row).

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Listen, I know the music is crappy and I’m not ashamed. Hell, I had a Taproot phase once *, but maybe you did too so lets not point fingers. Listen to “rock/metal” over the last ten years? Yeah, I bet you own a Korn CD (I have 3…)

I digress. Maybe YouTube will incorporate an auto repeat function soon.
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Panic at the Disco! “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”

Fall Out Boy “Dance Dance”

*also see AFI “Leaving Song Part 2″ and The Used “Burried Myself Alive” and Justin Timberlake “My Love”, and to go a ‘lil further back Ma$e, Puffy, n Biggs “Mo Money, Mo Problems”, and the song following below - my vote for the “Best Music Video To Ever Use a Gold and Platinum Tank On A Basketball Court”…

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And yes, I just referenced Master P’s “Make ‘Em Say Uhhhh!” as pop. Na Na Na Na.