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Do you remember that day in high school when you woke up and looked down at the floor only to see a giant pile of stars that had been washed from your eyes like so much eyeball crust while you were asleep? The day that all your creeping liquid suspicions that life actually kind of really fucking sucks were solidified into a jiggly red Jello of certainty and despair? No? Just me and Cherry Glazerr then?
The Southern California teen band fronted by the winsome Clementine Creevy have recently been coaxed out of their (probably very adorably decorated) bedroom and into the limelight through their fashionable collaboration with Hedi Slimane on his first film for Saint Laurent, and their latest musical offering “White’s Not My Color This Evening” could have been the exact soundtrack to the day of my youthful disenchantment: the lyric “I don’t want to be seen/I don’t want to be heard” could have been ripped straight from my 9th grade diary.
(Photo via Cherry Glazerr Facebook page)
More important than me projecting my history onto strangers is the fact this song is evidence that while Cherry Glazerr may have started out charming the world with their sweetly twee lo-fi songs about grilled cheese sandwiches and kitty cats, they can also write multidimensional music that reflects the angst of aging. I won’t try to classify this genre-wise (SPIN called this new sound “crunchy-punk-metal”, whatever the fuck that means – see Lo-Pie for a good response to that) but it’s definitely a a testament to the fact that while disillusionment sucks, it tends to usher in the kind of growth that makes for really good music (or in my case, really bad poetry).
The music video for the song plays like a smart, angry girl’s weird dream: I will wake up and wear whatever I want, I will see hot skater boys, I will go procure my most favorite baked goods and secret-eat them in my car, I will be mocked by hot skater boys, I will get sad and then I will get MAD, I will beat up shit-eating hot skater boy, thus winning the heart of the one unicorn of a teenage boy who appreciates me, kicking and crumb-covered and all. And even though it usually doesn’t work out that way in real life, I still share Cherry Glazerr’s hope that it one day will.
Watch the video, directed by Jamie Heinrich, below:
CHERRY GLAZERR “White’s Not My Color This Evening” from Jamie Heinrich on Vimeo.
You can follow Cherry Glazerr on Twitter. Their debut LP Haxel Princess is out on Burger Records January 14th. Pre-order HERE.