“Like You Mean It” by Watashi Wa ft. Freeto Boat, Saturday, February 11, 2023
Pinkerton is a foundational album in the emo genre. Weeze r’s second record was a commercial failure at the time of its release, especially following their massive debut record. Many successful bands look back at the album almost as a kind of bible of guitar tones and lyrical content. Pinkerton produced three singles, including “ Pink Triangle ,” a song in which the speaker, a boy in college, falls for a lesbian who doesn’t return his affection. The song explores the complexities surrounding sexual identity, which seems progressive for the time but a little cringy today. And it’s that cringe that seeps into Watashi Wa ’s 2022 People Like People , an album I’ve talked about before, but today I wanted to look into why a self-identifying “ministry band” quoted Weezer to “say it ‘ Like You Mean It .’” SO HERE COMES THE SON TO REMIND YOU OF YOUR OWN BELIEFS. Watashi Wa started as a punk band when Seth Roberts and the original band were in middle school. Inspired heavily by early Tooth