rukario | busted self-titled

for a time, i only knew busted as the band who originated "year 3000," a song popularized by the jonas brothers. i've seen many a comment regaling how their life has been a lie upon learning it wasn't a jb original.

i don't really have a rationale behind deciding to listen to this album, besides the fact that "year 3000" is on it, and i thought i could find similar stuff. you can tell it's a teen rock record because "she's my psycho girl, my psycho girlfriend" is one of the lyrics of all time.

the most… interesting song on this album is the first. the person who inspired this song does know about it, but it's just unhinged to me. this genius annotation speaks for us all. the jonas brothers covered this one too, and i'm rather impressed by how they chose to go about it. i guess a song about crushing on an upperclassman and successfully getting with that upperclassman is supposed to be marginally better than getting with your teacher (it's not, it's really not). if they had done a straight cover i would have cried.

the rest of the album is pretty meh to me, although i'd say the songs until "year 3000" are the stronger ones on this record. "you said no" (originally "crash and burn," they changed the title because of the 2003 space shuttle disaster) is probably my favorite. the last track, "loser kid," is kind of worth listening to, if only because "what i go to school for" is actually paid off.