Gives You Hell by The All American Rejects is a multi-platinum masterpiece that swept the world for what felt like years, but there's SO much to appreciate about this song that we had to take the track piece by piece, and the music video frame by frame. There's a lot to love about this song that almost didn't even make it on to the record because the band had such little confidence in it.

The music video could easily warrant a 20,000 word thesis, but I've got like 1,000 characters so let's move quickly. This thing matches the song in terms of quality, catchiness, and total inability to consume it only once. There's SO much going on, and the most interesting part may be the relationship between our antagonist, the young rock star who doesn't give a flip about nothin', and our older domesticated board game aficionado "antagonist" and how OUR relationship with those characters has changed over time. All there is to say is we are do appreciate a quiet neighborhood.

Links:

Gives You Hell Narrative Music Video

Gives You Hell Performance Music Video

The Stacy's Mom Episode

The Hoobastank Episode

The Reason Music Video by Hoobastank

Boom Town by Sam Anderson

The Road Taken Podcast

Tom's Pop Punk Playlist

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2021 by Vampire Weekend

LOTL by 7 Minutes In Heaven

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