Those kids in Blue Screen Love Scene sure are cute. And, while the Resonator obsession continues, their fan base, and show list, starts growing. If you happened to be in Athens (Georgia, not Greece, what the hell, do you think they’re turning a profit yet? First year business, son, first year business) this past weekend, and you happened to be drunk and leaving the Elf Power show wondering why they’re never as good as a naked Kevin Barnes tran-stravaganza, then you were probably on hallucinogens.
That being the case, you might have stumbled into Go bar, thinking what you were imagining was some of the cutest, most upbeat dance-pop you’d heard in forever. If what you saw was this:
it was not, in fact, a hallucination. It was, however, the first BSLS live show, and the reports from the larger-than-ADULT.-on-the-Gimmie-Trouble-tour crowd were that they rocked it out, albeit politely and with a Siouxsie Sioux cover tacked on at the end.
I wish I’d been there to hear this:
Blue Screen Love Scene: (I’m A) Scientist
As always, attempting any discernible lyrical theme in this one is tough, and trying to do so kinda misses the entire point of BSLS (does that, then, make them a prose contemporary of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe? Do I dare, and do I dare, draw that parallel?…nah.): perfect pop songs in under 4 minutes flat.
It’s the word “radiation” in this one that’ll grab you, though. “Scientist” comes through like a bolt of blue lightning, supercharged from the get-go.
If you’re in the southeast of the States and looking for a reason and a way to see BSLS, there’s one night you can’t miss: they’ll be playing Wordsmiths Books BGB Vol III, with Raw Shark Texts author Steven Hall (seriously, this book is so incredibly cool, a feat both of literary prowess and design genius) ’s only appearance on the East Coast, on April 24th. Cue that little info card:
You’ll be seeing the poster soon enough. R-r-r-raaadiation, and all that.
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