Signs of Aging
Paramore, the emo band headed by barely legal Hayley Williams, will soon be remaking No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” from the highly successful mid-90s album, Tragic Kingdom.
There’s nothing wrong with this perse. I have no issue with remakes and covers and such in and of themselves. What bothers me is that a song that I grew up with is now considered in need of a remake. It feels not that long ago that I was drooling over Gwen Stefani… You know, before she started enslaving Asian children. Now some angsty good-fer-nothin’ whippersnapper is going to be a hippin’ and a hoppin’ while uttering phrases like “totally, yeah, Paramore rocks; they totally like redid this like old song by some band from like forever ago.”
My friend hit it right on the head when he said all we’ve got to look forward to now are prostate exams that come up negative.