Plastic Girl

[ThatLetter]

This is the antithesis of good music. #playthephonebook

[JohnnyMcCormick]

Boyd said they wrote their best music during soundchecks on howard stern wrap up yesterday (Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/happy-valenti...n-wrap-up-show)

This song wasn't written at a soundcheck it was written in the studio!!!

[Julia Roberts]

Those lyrics look like an Insane Clown Posse song.

[hmich176]

Now how does this song get debuted this year? It belongs with the class of 2015.

[jenhen27]

I'm sure these aren't right but here you go:

Plastic Girl

Try to ? to make some sense
Freeing song inside my head
But in between now and then
I wasted time to try to fit in

This beautiful plastic world,
Beautiful plastic girls
The colors are brighter in there
Colors are everywhere

It’s a beautiful plastic world
And the beautiful plastic girls
I want to get inside there
The colors they everywhere

Oh that ends you dare
I try my best to fit in
But in between now and then
I waste my time to try to fit in

This beautiful plastic world,
Beautiful plastic girls
The colors are brighter in there
Colors are everywhere

It’s a beautiful plastic world
It’s a beautiful plastic world
I want to get inside there
The colors they everywhere

Scat
Oh out there

Scat
I said

A pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty lady
Lord oh

I want to get the ? the ?
Oooh sure
Oh no
Oh no
Ooohoh yea

Watch the plastic girl
In the beautiful plastic world
I want to get inside there
The colors are everywhere

In the beautiful plastic world
The beautiful plastic girls
The colors are brighter there
The colors they’re everywhere

It’s a beautiful plastic world
The beautiful plastic girl
I want to get inside there
The colors are everywhere

The beautiful plastic girl
I decide to love too much

(From this point it’s possible some of the below is from crowd noise)

Oh sexy ??
Scat (screaming)

A beautiful plastic more/boy?
Don’t get ?
She gonna get?
She gonna get?
?
She gonna fall?

Scat/nonsense

1:45 of outro

[hmich176]

Originally Posted by JohnnyMcCormick

Boyd said they wrote their best music during soundchecks on howard stern wrap up yesterday (Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/happy-valenti...n-wrap-up-show)

This song wasn't written at a soundcheck it was written in the studio!!!

DMB hasn't done a soundcheck in years.

[space_raven]

Yeah, I like it.

[greenpick41]

Not a bad tune IMO, but the lyrics need major work. I like the vibe.

[pigsmarching8]

If I'm Rashaun, I would walk off the stage. He is a musical genius and he HAS to know this and Be Youraelf suck! Seriously, when you write songs like Seek Up, Two Step, and Pig, you have to be asking yourself wtf are these two songs?! It makes me like VITR and DOTHS!

[C.S.]

WTF is this? Oh, just a boring, boring, uninspired, boring song.

[lafleurjp]

i have three daughters and am terrified at the prospect of what our culture is capable of exposing to them.... The lyrics need work but this is another in a series of new material (SC, DoTHA, Virginia, specifically) within which I see a guy grappling w the same things my wife and I talk and worry about. Worry about our kids.. How they are evolving and on what they are focusing on/ascribing value to. I actually really like the music too. The reality is that I am a relic. Started following the band in in high school. Labeling myself and those who disagree with my perspective is uniquely silly... I'm just hoping that people can consider the perspective of the song. The instantaneous, knee jerk, guttural reaction, and the corresponding impulse to share with the world is probably part of the mentality being critiqued in the song. Anyways...

[pigsmarching8]

I agree, it seems like Dave is forcing a message...

[pigsmarching8]

It actaually reminds me of stand up

[C.S.]

Originally Posted by lafleurjp

i have three daughters and am terrified at the prospect of what our culture is capable of exposing to them.... The lyrics need work but this is another in a series of new material (SC, DoTHA, Virginia, specifically) within which I see a guy grappling w the same things my wife and I talk and worry about. Worry about our kids.. How they are evolving and on what they are focusing on/ascribing value to. I actually really like the music too. The reality is that I am a relic. Started following the band in in high school. Labeling myself and those who disagree with my perspective is uniquely silly... I'm just hoping that people can consider the perspective of the song. The instantaneous, knee jerk, guttural reaction, and the corresponding impulse to share with the world is probably part of the mentality being critiqued in the song. Anyways...

No better way to highlight the pitfalls of a superficial, shallow world than with a superficial, shallow song!

I can sympathize with your point of view, but it seems like you're reaching a bit. I can't think of any reason why debuting this was a good idea. At least one could argue that Be Yourself is just trying to be fun; this doesn't seem anywhere near being done (at least I hope not).

[parks3923]

Wtf??????

[jwrice5]

I know Dave is in the middle of this "for my kids" kick, which, as a father of a young daughter, I can appreciate, but samurai cop did a much better job of conveying his message. Hell, Gaucho did a much better job than this.

Regardless of what message Dave may be trying to convey, how in the world does this, and be yourself, come from the same person who wrote seek up, the stone, pig, typical, pig, dreaming tree??!! I know that people change but damn!

[pigsmarching8]

Yup? It sucks. But better than Be Yourself...I think....

[C.S.]

With this one I think I've reached my tipping point where I'll be getting a sinking feeling any time a new song pops up on the set list from now on.

[bowa36]

love Timmy on this one

[jenhen27]

Davespeak before the song started:

There’s a lot of real shit
And there’s a lot of fake shit
That’s fake shit <kicks a beach ball off stage>>
And there’s a lot of real shit
Some some real shit is is awesome
And some fake shit is also awesome
Thank you
I hope this is some real shit

[ThatLetter]

Be Yourself is better because it is shorter.

[tyler3440]

Ugly ass song. Terrible. It's so fucking bad.

[wlperie]

Originally Posted by jenhen27

Davespeak before the song started:

There’s a lot of real shit
And there’s a lot of fake shit
That’s fake shit <kicks a beach ball off stage>>
And there’s a lot of real shit
Some some real shit is is awesome
And some fake shit is also awesome
Thank you
I hope this is some real shit

Dave is so deep.

[robby_idol]

Only slightly better than Be Yourself, thanks to the relatively nice vibe in the music. The lyrics and vocals are a mess of Blackjack proportions.

I don't like when Dave sings this way. It sounds insincere, like the lyrics and song don't mean anything to him (or anyone). Listen to Dreaming Tree, Seek Up, or even fun songs like Billies or Two Step. You can tell by the way Dave sings those song mean a lot to him (or used to). This just sounds like him half drunk on his porch at 2:00AM.

[C.S.]

Originally Posted by jenhen27

I hope this is some real shit

Wishes DO come true!

[tyler3440]

I hope this song is some fake shit. I never want to see it again.

[emp88]

Originally Posted by robby_idol

Only slightly better than Be Yourself, thanks to the relatively nice vibe in the music. The lyrics and vocals are a mess of Blackjack proportions.

I don't like when Dave sings this way. It sounds insincere, like the lyrics and song don't mean anything to him (or anyone). Listen to Dreaming Tree, Seek Up, or even fun songs like Billies or Two Step. You can tell by the way Dave sings those song mean a lot to him (or used to). This just sounds like him half drunk on his porch at 2:00AM.

ha it does sound like that. i feel like this style is kindof a shtick at this point

p.s. bob loblaw law blog...never gets old. brilliance.

[dmbetc]

Originally Posted by ThatLetter

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty

Please god no

[robby_idol]

The Seventh Circle of Hell with Dave Matthews lyrics:

"Love you, love you, love you you you you you you you"

"Derka derka derka derka"

"Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty"

[jakesomedevil41]

Originally Posted by robby_idol

Only slightly better than Be Yourself, thanks to the relatively nice vibe in the music. The lyrics and vocals are a mess of Blackjack proportions.

I don't like when Dave sings this way. It sounds insincere, like the lyrics and song don't mean anything to him (or anyone). Listen to Dreaming Tree, Seek Up, or even fun songs like Billies or Two Step. You can tell by the way Dave sings those song mean a lot to him (or used to). This just sounds like him half drunk on his porch at 2:00AM.

What the fuck are you even talking about?