Day 201: Say it Ain’t So

Say it Ain’t So by Weezer

In Ben Folds recent memoir A Dream About Lightning Bugs Folds talks about the definition of cool music in the nineties:

It was, after all, cool to be bored in the nineties. Apathy, like the beautiful feathers of an exotic male bird, is what attracted a mate in that era. Back then, we rockers worshipped the slacker above everyone else, except maybe for the suicidal…So I imagined a battle between two great forces of don’t-give-a-shit-ness: the characters General Apathy and Major Boredom. And though I poked fun at it, I secretly thought all this apathy business was, well…cool.

p. 276, A Dream About Lightning Bugs

Cue Weezer