Just A Little Bit Cynical

Courting “Popshop!”

“Popshop!” is a song expressing a bone-deep cynicism about the music industry from a band who’ve released a grand total of 7 songs to date. But like, you’d have to be a fool to think otherwise, right? The song is basically having a laugh at the notion that they’re willfully entering this rigged game if just because being a band is fun. Sean Murphy-O’Neill delivers his punchlines with a good-natured tone, coming off more like a clever guy with a wry take than an asshole shooting his mouth off. There’s quips at the expense of others – “if you stream ‘Shape of You’ you’re going straight to hell” and a goof on Belle Delphine selling her bathwater – but most of the humor is at Courting’s expense, since he’s so skeptical about achieving fame and fortune that the loftiest achievable goal in the song is a band outing at a chain British holiday resort.

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