| Young the Giant – Cough Syrup Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Cough Syrup" predates Young the Giant, when the band was known as The Jakes. The song appeared on the band's 2008 Shake My Hand EP, received regular airplay on KROQ's Locals Only radio program, and won a "Best Song" nomination at the 2009 OC Music Awards. Lead vocalist Sameer Gadhia explained that "Cough Syrup" was written at a time when the band was unsigned, had no money and "didn't really know what to do with ourselves." The group, he continued, "felt somewhat oppressed by the universal expectation of what to do in Orange County...in suburbia in general. I think we really yearned to break out of that and do something a little bit different." Gadhia said the song is "kind of a cry for help" to "break free, not necessarily from oppression, but the common symptoms of suburbia like boredom, normality and homogeneity." Bassist Payam Doostzadeh, in a 2011 interview, said that with "Cough Syrup" being the oldest song in Young the Giant's catalog, "it's kind of hard for us to play it." Doostzadeh added, "I mean, we've had it for four years and it's just now getting on the radio? But our fans don't know that." |
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| Young the Giant – Cough Syrup Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| moclov4 - From your previous post it sounds more like the INSPIRATION for the song came from the cough syrup, but that doesn't mean that song is ABOUT cough syrup. | |
| Young the Giant – Cough Syrup Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Doesn't MTV play to teenagers and young adults? Isn't that a large portion of their viewership? Why would they be covertly convincing people to do such harmful things? Besides, it's not like MTV goes and tells bands to write songs like this, even though this song obviously isn't trying to convince people to drink cough syrup. Maybe less obviously, it's not even ABOUT couch syrup. | |
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