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The Blow Get Four Stars
by Zach Baron
There's legitimate beef to be had with The Blow's violent, the-world-is-yours, all-material-out-is-our-material appropriation of other people's shit. MySpace it: Now playing, The Police, except The Blow call it "Come On Petunia". And see here: Recognize those "Parentheses" handclaps? First five or six seconds of "My Boyfriend's Back", no? That said, said beef is not mine. The Blow detour the Angels' handclaps into "Stars Are Blind" reggae and midi-bass-groove before letting them go, then ride that goofy keyboard funk to the second best lyric in the song: "When you're, holding me/ We make a pair of parentheses." The bridge bottoms out, Khaela Maricich says, "There's something in the deli aisle," and you are sure the next lyric will be, "That makes you smile." But then she says, "That makes you cry." Heartbreaking not-rhyme, and it's all hers.
