You remember The Offspring, don’t you? They’re the ones that did that song about being ‘pretty fly’ despite being a white person. It’s a song which is basically about not mimicking black people. It’s one of those songs that has gone down in history as being the intellectual equivalent to ‘The Bad Touch’ by The Bloodhound Gang.
Well, if you were excited when that came out you’ll be delighted to hear that they’ve?confirmed they are putting the finishing touches to the follow-up to 2008?s ?Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace.? Our source for this claimed that it was the ‘much-anticipated’ follow-up but even we’re not that sarcastic.
Singer Dexter Holland and guitarist Noodles told a very, very strangely set up podcast that the band have already finished the?guitar and drum parts for the twelve tracks on the record and they are now working on the lyrics.
That’s how you write an album, isn’t it? You just record some music and then see what fits in. Maybe they’ll do another song about wanting to ‘hit something’ like 2003’s ‘Hit That’ from the album Splinter.
Speaking on a podcast, with special guest competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi (no… seriously), The Offspring’s creative powerhouses mull over a number of subjects but apparently didn’t get time to contemplate why they haven’t released a decent record since 1997’s Ixnay on the Hombre.
Holland said:
?So as you guys at home can probably tell we've been totally fucking off on not working on the record.?
Actually Dexter, no-one was that bothered but thanks for keeping us informed. The frontman insisted that the band have been working their behinds off in the studio every day ‘laying down tracks’ but are now taking their time to shoehorn some lyrics into the songs.
The Offspring admit that their latest, hotly-unanticipated release won’t be out this year but have been careful to suggest that the fans of the defunct genre won’t be waiting too long for their inevitable disappointment.
Guitarist Noodles stated:
?No. I don't think so (come out this year)? prove me wrong, dude!?Who knows at this point? It's definitely not gonna be a Chinese Democracy situation. It's not? you know, we're gonna finish it, we're getting close, you see the light at the end of the tunnel. You know? we're not gonna go in and scrap and re-write these songs, these songs are good. So don't worry about that.?
He seems certain, doesn’t he? All those ellipses don’t denote hesitation… or do they?
Actually, we are quite worried. Some of us in the hecklerspray bedsit have fond memories of The Offspring back in the day when they were quite good and quite fun. Given The Offspring’s last two or three studio offerings, fans of the band should be really, really concerned that Noodles thinks these songs are ‘good’. He’s clearly not the best judge. Especially given how strikingly awful Chinese Democracy turned out to be.
If you can’t control yourself and have already piddled your pants with excitement at the prospect of more Orange County surf pop-punk from the men who brought you that other song about getting a job or something like that then go and listen to 1994’s Smash and wonder why they can’t just do that again.
Tommy Romlinson says
The writer of this post is a cocky prick, not everyone shares your likes and dislikes. Some of us have been wondering what’s going on, so perhaps just because you and maybe some people in your life don’t enjoy this band doesn’t mean that no one does. No one would notice if you never posted another blog again, so they are a few steps ahead of your pointless existance.