cheap trick’s surrender is a banger but the verses sure are something. first batch being addressed to the “i’d meet girls like you” as the narrator here presuming this girl is Too Sexually Actively since this focuses a lot on like sti / stds for a while?? this framework of [the narrator is addressing a Girl] is also immediately dropped. and then also the “stds exist” savviness comes from My Mommy Served In The WACs in the Philippines and that mommy not being one of the recruited “old maids” and the soldier and the indonesian junk going around which i used to chalk up while half listening to like...the boat?? but it’s like, this is a hell of an angle about how your parents have unexpected histories and surprising supposedly informed lectures about the dangers of not staying away b/c you’ll never know what you’ll catch and focusing on that for the majority of the song for some reason. and then it’s like, also my parents like rock music & they fuck. and that’s the end like okay. anyways and also the way “before we married Maaahmmy served” (lol) and “Greg’s all right” makes me laugh every time, which is fun. i like things that are a little sonically weird & grating. like, the lyrics of uh, what is the weird paul mccartney song. temporary secretary. are as bad or worse and it’s not a banger but when i sit down to listen to it it does just make me laugh throughout lol. not in the kind of I’m Tickled way that even ramps up my genuine enjoyment of other songs for having some of those “grating” elements lol but. for example i love a like really nasal and rhotic and drawn out EER sound. anyways this has been a segment.