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Jaret Reddick on the Funniest and Cringiest of Bowling for Soup
“I’ll never understand creating something that people like and then not wanting to perform it.”
On a tour last year celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album A Hangover You Don’t Deserve by playing the full tracklist, Reddick warned crowds that this was the earliest in a show they’d ever hear Bowling for Soup’s biggest hit before launching into “1985” — technically an SR-71 cover, but a BFS staple. His line was, “She rocked out to My Chem / Not a Five Finger Death Punch fan / nobody understands / still wearing beat-up Vans.” I thought that kept the whole idea and vibe of the original. Apparently in things that Dan and his co-creator Swampy had worked on previously, like The Simpsons or Rocco’s Modern Life, Bowling for Soup had been a reoccurrence in the writing room.
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