Moe Lane

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“Stuck To You,” Walk Off The Earth

At first I was only kinda OK with it, but the cover grew on me.

Via the Walk off the Earth Patreon.

How do they keep making me like songs that I don’t like?

Teenage Dirtbag, Walk Off the Earth

Started at 8 PM – nearly was late; had issues with finding a parking spot and then with the ticket – and went on until about 10:20 or so. They had a kid called Gabriela Bee open, who is a good kid and a good singer and who has the professional acumen to keep her song intros down below ten seconds*. That was about a half hour, and then they did a charity pitch for sponsoring kids in African communities. Simultaneously nice, and relentless.

Forgot I bought a ticket. Should be fun: I like the band and I expect that Walk Off the Earth will put on a good live show. I also assume that I will be the oldest one there, and honestly that has a certain appeal. I am now approaching the age where I can produce a certain amount of bemused cognitive dissonance in certain venues simply by showing up. If I get one confused look on somebody’s face at the site, then my work there will be done.

Besides, it’s good for the kids to be not-scared surprised every so often. Keeps the old neurons firing, and so forth. There’s been studies done, surely.

Gonna see them Wednesday, actually. Kind of hoping for a spit-take from somebody else in the audience, tell you truthful.

Cheerleader, Walk Off the Earth

Someone on YouTube once told these guys something like “What is it with you guys? You keep making me like songs that I hate.”

…Yeah.

Girls Like You, Walk Off The Earth

Feliz Navidad, Walk Off The Earth

Details here.  At a site close to me, too.  I did have tickets for the Walk Off the Earth tour earlier this year, but I was simultaneously sick and a bit down in the dumps that weekend.  Hopefully I’ll be better next time.  ‘Course, I’m probably also likely to be about twice the age of everybody else there, but I can live with that.  As long as it isn’t noise yet, I should be fine.

Moe Lane

PS: I listened to a bunch of pop music on my way back from Atlantia’s Unevent (SCA kingdom-level business meeting; I’m a baronial officer now. Just as exciting as it sounds).  It was thankfully not noise.  I even quite liked some of it.  Then again, I have forgiving tastes in music.

‘Cheerleader,’ Walk Off the Earth

The kids?  …They’re all right.