Twitter-sized reviews: The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games = Battle Royale for Americans. Via Lord of the Rings and Zoolander. Wait, wat? 7/10.

Unnecessary close-ups were unnecessary

Twitter-sized reviews: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold = Documentary about product placement/trying to get money from companies, funded by said companies in return for product placement. Boom. 8/10

TGMES is pretty much an extension of this joke with Morgan Spurlock and some interviews

Courage My Love have a new video, it's not as much fun as their other ones (But I still have a new music crush)

Every so often I become slightly obsessed with some new band I've just heard, repeatedly listening to their music, watching their videos and generally consuming anything they've done, like an Asian kid at a hot dog eating contest. And usually what happens is simillar to said kid, I overdose after a short but glorious time and can't look at a hot dog again for quite a while, before enjoying them again like a regular person.

Enter Courage My Love, a Canadian pop punk band who combine many of the things I (not so secretly) love/make fun of;

• Upbeat, catchy pop punk that could probably get on the radio
• Female vox
• Female harmonies on the vox
• EXTRA BONUS POINTS: TWINS WHO SING HARMONIES
• Silly lyrics
• Super posi outlook, all of the fun
•  Breakdowns!
• A ginger guy with glasses doing well for himself

 My twitter feed was fuller than an Asian kid at a... ok I'll stop, there was a lot of hype on twitter about their new video, which has PREMIERED today and I gotta say I'm kinda like totally stoked aswell brah.

• It looks srs, oh noes!
• 00.25 - vox in, still no band footage, wut?
• DAT DIALOGUE.
• The code is on a piece of paper, LOL. mega spies.
• Twin fight!
• Nevar trust a ginger

All in all, not what I was hoping for so here's their other (fun) videos

I'll still be front row at their gigs if I get to Canada like I hope to this summer. Singing like a tween girl and moshing training bras off. Still <3 u guise!

They're on bookface --> Courage My Love

Twitter-sized reviews; The Raven

The Raven= The Da Vinci code set in Sleepy Hollow. With lots of whispering for dramatic effect. 6/10.

Rita mishears: Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys

What will Can't Bear This Party do next?

There comes a point for most bands when either consciously or subconsciously they become more srs, with a 'mature' sound that they hope will show their evolution as musicians. This usually results in a craic-vacuum effect where all the fun is sucked out of their next album. This phenomenon is never more pronounced than in pop punk/easycore bands who ditch breakdowns and silly songs about girls for what they feel is better songwriting and penmanship. Boourns. Examples of this have been Four Year Strong, Title Fight, The Wonder Years and to a lesser degree, Man Overboard.

Now, consider Can't Bear This Party, a continental euro easycore band (French to be precise, but don't hold that against them) who have all the features we've come to know and love from euro easy core including, but not limited to:

• A redonk band name
• Silly accents/undecipherable lyrics
• Zany song titles
• Breakdowns/synth/multiple vocal styles/gang chorus 

I'm going to go as far as to define them as progressive easycore because not only do they tick all the easycore boxes they also have from the start included other elements not traditionally associated with easycore including:

• Fast skate punk rhythms 
• Breakdowns that are incorporated into the song as a whole, not just wedged in after the second chorus
• A drummer who does more than 3 beats and the odd fill
• Occasional decipherable lyrics!

Here's an example from their EP Modern Factory

It's a pretty bitchin' song but they then released Ain't No Princess in 2010 and added more elements to their arsenal of fun including:

• Novelty sound effects such as a microwave chime and telephone
• Even more ridiculous drumming, and more genres thrown in
• A xylophone and a breakdown featuring said xylophone
• Tasty melodic gang choruses

The album even has a generic breakdown intro song complete with zany video!

All of the breakdowns, all of the drumming, dat album artwork <3

So word is they have a new album coming out this year. But the question is; will they take the progressive easycore fun up a level or go srs?

Twitter-sized reviews: Project X

Project X: the best party you never went to. Dumb but fun. A bit like Cloverfield if you replace the monster with a PARTY ANIMAL. 7/10

How to be cool: 1.Throw party. 2. Change your personality and/or morals. 3. Drink loads and take drugs. 4. ??? 5. INSTANT COOL DUDES.