I keep forgetting to mention something awesome that happened…probably two weeks ago at this point: I found a song that’s been haunting me for almost sixteen years.
So, one day when I was around thirteen, my whole family is walking through JC Penney, and we pass this tv on which a music video is playing. And I only caught a snippet of it, but I loved it, and I tried to remember as much as I could so I could figure out who it was and get their cd and listen to it some more. At the time, I definitely knew one line of the song that seemed to be in the chorus (“Is it like today?”), but I was a little hazy on the rest of the lyrics. At some point between then and now, maybe even back then or maybe later as I looked back and tried to remember the video, I thought there were dinosaurs in it (which turned out to be totally wrong). Anyway, I tried to track that song down, and I figured that line might be part of the title or something (because it was the chorus, right, that’s common), and I didn’t find it, but I did end up buying the Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream, because “Today” was on it. Not the song I was looking for, but I liked the cd, so, happy accident.
Flash forward through the years, and the original song is still haunting me, still in the back of my mind, and every once in a blue moon I’ll try to find it by trawling the internet. Here’s the thing, when you search this: “is it like today” – even in quotes, you get a shit ton of stuff that’s not that song. So I never found it. It didn’t occur to me to search youtube for the video, I don’t know why. Anyway, so two weeks ago, for some reason whatever it is that tells me it’s time to check for that song again told me it was time, and *this time* I googled: lyrics “is it like today” – and it was the first hit, and it was right. And holy fucking shit, I goddamn love World Party. It’s every bit as awesome as I’d remembered, and especially for the moods I’ve been in lately, it’s perfect and apt. (The other song that I’ve been obsessively listening to lately is, actually, a Smashing Pumpkins song, “The beginning is the end is the beginning,” and yes, it’s the song from the Watchmen trailer. It’s kind of dark and depressing, which suited me for a while, but really, I didn’t need any more dark and depressing, because I had enough on my own. That’s really, for me, more of a wallowing song, while “Is it like today” somehow isn’t. It’s kind of about some fucked up shit, but it’s less negative. I don’t know – it’s not even just that the music is more upbeat, even the lyrics make me less moody that “Tbiteitb.”)
Anyway, with no further ado, please to enjoy World Party’s “Is it like today,” thanks to the wonders of youtube:
