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I really liked Who Will Cut Our Hair When We Are Gone? by The Unicorns from back in 2003, the songs were structured with a cartoonish glee,and that, balanced with fear of death vocals, really tickled me in the right spots. As Mars Loves Venus by The Brunettes began I was suddenly thrown back to the first moments of listening to WWCOHWWAG? Soon after I was thrown back down onto a lower plane of appreciation.
The Brunettes, of New Zealand, do have a cartoonish glee about them, much similar to the Unicorns, but thats about where the comparison stops. Lyrics seem as though they were pulled from a 14 year olds lovey dovey notebook, and performed in Grease-y "Summer Nights" style. While this is sort of refreshing, it's not the typical American Brand teen angst we have all come to know and loathe, it is a more playful innocence. For example on "Too Big for Gidget" Heather Mansfield sings her feelings away about not wanting a tall man, that it would be to hard to reach his lips, and that it would look silly to hug him and have her head at his waist more cutesy stuff of the like.
While the musical accompaniment sounds as though it would fit nicely on a soundtrack for Super Mario Sunshine, all in all being tickled with a thousand feathers for over a half hour could get kind of irritating... or could it?
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