Artist: Sum 41
Song: Jessica Kill
Album: Screaming Bloody Murder
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Why this song is awesome:
Sum 41’s frontman Deryck Whibley spent most this year cooking up a dish called “misery stew.” Sprinkle liberally with divorce and garnish with drug binge rumours. Whatever the ingredients, it makes for a damn good song (and album).
Listening to Jessica Kill is like being slapped across the face with a teenager’s diary who has enough issues to annoy their friends, but not enough to actually need a prescription. I mean that as a complement to Deryck, however backhanded.
This song is intense, exciting, and it brings us back to the darker and heavier Sum 41 I’ve missed since Chuck, two albums ago.
If you’ve written the band off as pop-punk bores, forget what you know. Sum 41 is back.
Best lyrics:
Oh my love, how do I explain / how I’ve come to feel this way / I’m addicted to the pain, even more than words could say / Every hit hurts like your kiss / like a needle to a vein / My last words of this begin / I want you
Tell me the difference between love and death / Fear them both as they take your breath
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p.s. I’ve never had misery stew, but I imagine it would taste something like “sad gulash.” Which I imagine would taste like puppy tears.
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