I think this has more to do with rejecting what the Velvet Underground sang about and embodied and glamorized (sex, drugs, and rock and roll), rather than the way that their music sounded. The background singers sing "white light white heat" because thats one of the VU's best drugs songs. They arent singing "sweet jane" or whatever. Also explains the verse about buying bunk drugs from some girl. Eddie Argos is a huge Modern Lovers fan and is basically trying to be the 2000's version of that band, and they were all about being a normal person and not about crazy sex and drug abuse and whatever. the "i don't want a girl whose with the band, i just want a girl that's gonna hold my hand" lyric is basically a paraphrase of the Modern Lovers song "someone I care about". the drug and sex fueled rock cliche life is just not the reality of the life Eddie and his band have lived i guess, same as with modern lovers and most bands. and its unusual to find bands like art brut, ML, the Undertones, etc who make honest music that is still rock and roll. Anyway, I think of this song as really more an anti-libertines song than an anti VU song. my 2 cents.
I think this has more to do with rejecting what the Velvet Underground sang about and embodied and glamorized (sex, drugs, and rock and roll), rather than the way that their music sounded. The background singers sing "white light white heat" because thats one of the VU's best drugs songs. They arent singing "sweet jane" or whatever. Also explains the verse about buying bunk drugs from some girl. Eddie Argos is a huge Modern Lovers fan and is basically trying to be the 2000's version of that band, and they were all about being a normal person and not about crazy sex and drug abuse and whatever. the "i don't want a girl whose with the band, i just want a girl that's gonna hold my hand" lyric is basically a paraphrase of the Modern Lovers song "someone I care about". the drug and sex fueled rock cliche life is just not the reality of the life Eddie and his band have lived i guess, same as with modern lovers and most bands. and its unusual to find bands like art brut, ML, the Undertones, etc who make honest music that is still rock and roll. Anyway, I think of this song as really more an anti-libertines song than an anti VU song. my 2 cents.