Song: "Lovefool"
Artist: The Cardigans
Album: First Band on the Moon (1996)

I heard part of this song in a commercial today... and immediately I was picturing listening to the radio at the time this song was popular. I haven't heard it in ages so it was more reference-specific for me than music has been for a while... All of this blog-related over-analyzation and genre-specific listening has taken a lot of the casual referencing out of music.

In any case, the song sounded cold and wet and metallic like my room at the time. I pictured my best friend and didn't know why until I looked up information on the song - it's on the soundtrack of her favorite movie then. I didn't like it... Probably because I think the story sucks bad enough as is.

Youtube wanted to remind me of that fucking "Kiss Me" song, and that reminded me also of recording in the back part of where I lived then, and Savage Garden, and playing Donkey Kong Country with my nephew, and laughing my fucking ass off about "birthing season". And more recent, sadder memories about how my same-aged friends are still listening to shit like this when there's newer artists out there that need a little lovin'.

The song also reminds me of going to the mall, seriously, and looking at dresses. Girly, frilly, scary as fuck prom type of dresses. I never did the dress thing, but my friends did a few times... Yikes. Hot Topic was a couple of doors down, and I remember one of the first times I set foot in that store, I heard "Kinda I Want To" by NIN for the first time. My best friend was a little over-enthusiastic about it. I had no idea it was Nine Inch Nails.

I went looking through old papers and photos the other day from when I was, mostly, in elementary school... and the horrors to my brain that ensued have resulted in this entry being more nostalgic than I've been in a while. You know what's crazy? My ten year high school reunion/anniversary is in six months. And I still act twelve...