Amerakin Overdose Prove That Sometimes You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover

Yesterday, I was introduced to a band called Amerakin Overdose. I immediately suspected they’d be bad because of their name. I know this is a weird complaint to make, but I don’t understand why it’s ‘Amerakin’ and not ‘Amerikin,’ since it’s ‘American,’ not ‘Ameracan.’ Not that ‘Amerikin’ is a clever pun, but ‘Amerakin Overdose’ makes it seems as though the band is saying some guy named Amer is analogous to an overdose. I don’t think that’s what the band is saying, though. (I don’t think they’re saying anything at all, actually. I think they probably have to look up words like ‘analogous.’)

My suspicion that this band blows chunks of cheese was only intensified when I saw their promo pic.

Then there’s the band’s statement regarding their new song and video, “I, Alone”:

“The album is a journey through the common struggles of the ‘American Dream.’ Be the biggest, richest, baddest, best looking, have the houses, cars, women, fame, drugs, sex, etc.”

This is already confusing. Are the ideas expressed in these two sentences meant to be related? As it stands now, it reads like they’re first telling us what their album is about, and then giving us instructions on what to be. But even if we pretend they said “Being the biggest blah blah blah,” that still wouldn’t really make sense. When you think of the “common struggles of the ‘American Dream’,” you do not think about the “hardships” of being the biggest, richest, baddest, best looking person with houses, cars, women, fame, drugs, and sex. Death of a Salesman isn’t about how some poor working stiff can’t handle all the drugs and pussy he’s getting.

“The album presents the listener with the temptations of the world. Like a drug, it has its moments of highs, lows and delusions. It shows the struggle of wanting it all, having it all, losing it all, and being reborn.”

Still doesn’t seem like this has anything to do with the American Dream, but okay, at least I understand what they’re saying here.

“Believing in yourself, and yourself alone, and freeing everything that slaves you.”

And freeing everything that… huh? You can’t free the things that slave you. Slaves couldn’t walk into the house and tell the dickhead who theoretically owned them, “Hey, you can go now.” You can free yourself from the things that slave you. I assume that’s what they meant. But, y’know. Words have meanings, and those meanings are dependent on the order in which you place those words. Just sayin’.

So why did I even bother listening to the band at this point?

AHEM! Actually, I was just checking to make sure the band wasn’t brilliant. Because, of course, if they were brilliant, their need for adult literacy courses and make-up remover would be a moot point.

But yeah the band isn’t brilliant.

So I guess I actually am pretty stupid. Or, are the very least, a masochist. 

[via Revolver]