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Hanson Hanson - understandably reluctant to reveal the utter lack of wisdom or experience that informs their music - relied on a mishmash of made-up words and non-sequitors for its first single, "MMM-Bop." This song's global appeal may well stem from its nonsensical lyrics - unintelligible in any language, they are equally accessible in all of them. Slightly more daring is the band's second single, "Where's The Love?" Grappling with this eternal enigma, it finally offers as its refrain the (non-)answer, "It makes the world go round and round" (adding a bonus for the physics boys to Hanson's usual treat for the philosophers. But Hanson only finally perfected portentous pubescent pontificating in its third single, "Weird", an idiotic 'anthem' to alienation, loneliness and despair with the with the almost unthinkably stupid - yet excruciatingly characteristic - chorus, "Isn't it weird/Isn't it strange/How we all feel a little bit weird sometimes?". Is this the gut-wrenching musical "Howl" for our millenial moment? Or the musings of an unimaginative teen trying to elevate his frustration at failing to get a date to some form of soul-rending angst as he absently-mindedly fingers the ridge of pustules on his chin? Quit moaning, Hansons - the day you feel like putting on a Charleton Heston T-shirt and plowing down your science class with an Uzi, come back and we'll talk. But what more could anyone expect from three under-aged, over protected boys from the American Midwest? |
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