It's a well documented fact that Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard kind of creeps me out. I dig the band's music on occasion, but seriously, look at his weirdly cubical dome and tell me you aren't the least bit perturbed.
The band has released a video for their new single "I Will Possess Your Heart" off of their upcoming album Narrow Stairs.
I'm legitimately excited about the album, and not just because the cover reminds me of those weird water color-y transitions from Punch-Drunk Love. Mostly, though, I'm just struck by how similar this video is to another classic, semi-stalker-ish love song.
STEVE PERRY LIVES.
But seriously, all love songs are written by sad, obsessive beta males, and the fact that some women are actually turned on by tracks like this is a fucked up double standard that needs to stop. Every time a girl is awed by Ben Gibbard plaintively strumming a guitar and singing "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" she is innocuously condoning getting stalked by that "kinda-funny-and-probably-funny-looking" guy who works the mid-shift at FedEx-Kinko's with her.
Say what you will about Tawny Kitaen and other car-humping 80s metal babes, but at least they perpetuated exactly the kind of stereotypical male that most young women end up getting with. I'm not saying stop breaking hearts, ladies. Without your cruel help, there'd be no pop music.
I'm just saying stop encouraging fey, glasses-wearing, navel-gazing Elvis Costello wannabes by letting them hear you say how touching "Transatlanticism" was.
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