I normally don’t watch MTV much anymore as I’m too old for their programming faire. But I have managed to catch the videos for the Darkness and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new singles. At first I thought both were kinda dumb. I hated hair metal in the ’80s and don’t want to experience even an “ironic” look back. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, on the other hand, have that “too cool to care” indie vibe that makes me wish that someone like James Hetfield would just pimp-slap the “cool” right outta them. And yet both singles are now looping through my head on an alternating, unending, unyielding basis. It’s both horrid and ecstactic.
