that gin blossoms record, new miserable experience, it’s so fucking fantastic. the first couple notes and i’m hooked all over again. the guitar riffs for “found out about you”? fucking killer. “hey jealousy”s cred as a top-notch pop song? undeniable. and i’m listening to the lyrics tonight for the first time, you know actually paying attention to them. i’ve sung along to them for years without paying attention.
it’s really depressing shit about alcoholism, losing love and chasing after it once it’s gone. asking psychics if “she’ll” come back again. drinking till things seem new again.
honestly, i’m really resonating with them, and i’m looking for answers anywhere i think i can find them. so i start looking into the singer. is he married? did he ever find love? did he cure his alcoholism? i’m looking for a light at the end of the tunnel, you know? for one of the few people i resonate with to tell me that things are going to be okay. that life gets better.
and i can’t find anything about the singer, but it doesn’t matter because he didn’t write the lyrics. doug hopkins did, and he shot himself in the head shortly after “hey jealousy” went gold.
j.
i have to say, even though it is difficult in my life right now, that things do get better. not always the way you expect them to. and not always so smoothly, but they do get better.
i will say do not compromise your integrity in order to make things better sooner or faster.
more discussion in private.
i adore ‘hey jealousy’. better than ezra is another group i had on constant rotation. check them out.
ah! thanks for the reminder about those guys. i listened to friction baby hundreds of times, but i don’t think i’ve heard it in over 10 years. time to find it again…