Drops Of Jupiter

did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?

[it's me, valentine]-- again, suffering from paralyzing fear of blog voice/lack of inspiration, I find myself once more cruising the "edit posts" venue and thank GOD Drops of Jupiter is here on GOL (thanks, ELF) to re-open up the floor for discussion: WHY IS THIS SONG ACTUALLY GOOD?

I just returned from a x-country road trip (departing from NAH NAH! no!) on which despite having made over a dozen mix tapes for the ride (eclectic! fun!), radio still ruled supreme (duh). Despite my differing musical radio tastes from my riding companion ("where's the RAP?!" these rural airwaves were lacking, to say the least), this song brought us when it came on around together when it came on his refined desire for bombastic beats and nasty lyrics and my purely opportunistic love for actually every song that came on in one big singing-out-loud (genius of) love fest. Is it correct to say the song gets to us cause lyrics are so bad they're good? Lines like "she checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo" and of course, "the best soy latte that you've ever had in me (?)" seem to suggest this, but there's something else there: in the epic, cinematic string instrumental that makes it sound like the closing scene of every bad female-oriented TV show? Or the incessant string of questions he lays on us (are they rhetorical? slightly angry? "Did you finally get the chance to dance across the light of day?" WELL, DID YOU?!?!) Or perhaps it's just the sing-along "nah nah nahs" that bring us all--lyric knowers and non--together in a moment of radio jubilance...

Personally, what gets me is when he asks, in a completely earnest and slightly off-key squeal: "Did Venus blow your mind?" Why yes! I don't quite get what kind of girl he's singing about, but I BET you anything she's related to the brazen and ever-talented woman from "Meet Virginia". Yes?