I’m embarrassed to say I’m jamming…

April 20, 2010 I’m embarrassed to say I’m jamming…

Hanson…Now I know, I know…you’re really beginning to wonder why you read this blog at all.  You might be thinking, “I thought you at least tried to be cool Brittany”.  Well, this is supposed to be about what I am honestly jamming, no matter the public humiliation I may suffer.  No matter how many trendy points I am penalized!  I will STAND FOR WHAT I…woh, hold on…got a little Braveheart on you…sorry.  Anyways, for many of you whose heyday was the late 90′s, you might just have only one mental picture of the brothers Hanson that probably looks like this…

 

they all have kids now...ya...I thought it was weird too...

…well things have changed my friends.

  

I was more of an //\\//sync (yah, I just did that, deal with it) girl myself in the late 90′s, but Hanson was on my radar.  Soon they began to fade from my 11 year old memory and then, like a celebrity who appears on Dancing With The Stars, they resurfaced from the icy depths of obscurity.  I was in college and my friend Charity, who is my “hey Brittany, check out this new band” guru, handed me a CD (a CD, i know, how archaic) and told me not to ask who it was and just to listen.  I thought to myself “why not?” and popped it into my ’96 Camry and gave it a whirl.  I was jamming it so hard.  I mean windows down, breeze in my hair, singing at the top of my lungs jamming.  When I finally asked who it was, Charity paused very cryptically and said “…Hanson”.  My mind was blown.  First of all…they’re good, very good, very non-mmmboppy.  Second thought, where the heck have they been?!

 

Well, first off, they’ve been having about a million kids…check out the proof…

 

I mean…that’s a lot of kids…they practically have their own minor league softball team.  In addition to offspringing, they have been making some pretty good, nay pretty amazing, pop music.  You may be one of those Snooty McSnootersons who say “ugh I don’t like pop music, blah blah black eyeliner blah blah jnco’s”.  Well, you have to admit that it takes some skills to craft truly solid pop songs to please the mob, and Hanson has the formula.  The CD I was jamming to my Freshman year in college was called “Underneath”.  From there they have dropped many more suprisingly great albums. 

From then on, Hanson has ebbed and flowed from my radar depending on the new music they are impressing me with.  Last night my friend Heather and I were talking about how Hanson was coming to town with The Bamboozle Roadshow (please go check out that lineup…it could possibly be the most random tour ever devised).  When we parted ways, she went home and found the video that is currently my OBSESSION and what this post is truly all about.  This new song from Hanson is possibly the most toe-tapping, smile enducing, sing-along jam that I have heard in a very long time.  The fact that they recreated a scene from “The Blues Brothers” only adds to the amazingness.  So without further ado, here’s what I’m jamming…enjoy…also, try and find the cameo from Weird Al…yah, “Amish Paradise” Weird Al…I promise he’s in there…

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=104317949

*Revision: Hanson is a little less jamming because they are so tight on their copyright rules that I can’t even embed their video…NBC much?  WATCH AND ENJOY!

 

 

 

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