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...NO AND THEN!

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It's time once more for our favourite activity: BREAK DOWN THAT SONG! Today on the docket is Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event . From the first time I heard this song, it really just rubbed me the wrong way. It was featured on the Indie Spotlight on a local radio station here in Ottawa. The DJ opened with the fact that the band and it's album weren't getting great reviews and that every reviewer was probably a fucking moron not to like it. So, of course being impressionable as I am, I immediately decided I was going to love this song...until I heard it. One thought rang through my mind as I listened to this song and it was "NO AND THEN!" "...and theeeeeeeen?" This song is another classic example of Every.Fucking. 'Artiste' . that I went to highschool with and the result of them putting together a backup band and of course, shitty writing immediately means nega.points. I had high hopes for this band. I honestly tried to like ...