ARTIST: Black Kids
TITLE: I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
LABEL: Almost Gold Recordings
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 204 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 00:08:59
SIZE: 13.9MB
RETAIL DATE: 2008-00-00
Track List
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1. I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To 3:40
Dance With You
2. You Turn Me On 2:51
3. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover 2:28
Release Notes:
Jacksonville, Fla., five-piece Black Kids aren't the type to go on YouTube
offering instructional videos for their shit-hot dance moves, and it's hard to
blame 'em. You practice for hours, pour out a lifetime of blood, sweat, and
tears, and then one day there you are, impressing this awesome indie-pop girl
with your Chris Brown-caliber (OK, Napoleon Dynamite-caliber) steps. You're both
having fun-- so much fun, in fact, she wants you to reveal your tricks to her
mook boyfriend. Well, what-the-fuck-ever.
"I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You" (sometimes referred
to as "I'm Not Gonna Teach You", but the band prefers the long title) describes,
you guessed it, pretty much just such a situation. From Black Kids' MySpace and
their Wizard of Ahhhs demo, this little juke joint grabs attention like a
breakdancer at a wedding reception with its scraggly lo-fi guitar, peppy synths,
and ebullient melodies. Reggie Youngblood's vocals put a lighthearted spin on
the ol' Robert Smith/Conor Oberst quaver, while keyboardists Ali Youngblood and
Dawn Watley cheer back Go! Team-style atop Kevin Snow's emphatic drums. The
reverb here can get a bit cavernous, tending toward epic grandiosity over, say,
the Boy Least Likely To's low-key charm. But we're not suggesting Black Kids
should start biting anybody's moves.