Saturday, June 07, 2008

Not gonna write Drew a love song.

Did you know there’s a song about me?

I discovered it one day when I was scanning through the radio after getting tired of listening to my regular station play Guitar Hero songs all day long. It isn’t really my usual genre of music, but it’s still nice to have my name mentioned in a song. I now have the honor of joining a select lyrical few including Lola, Delilah, Luka and Jude.

I just wish it wasn’t such a depressing tune. A song about a girl pining over me who can never have me? Who wants to be remembered that way? I don’t want to be the reason for any girl’s teardrops on her guitar.

I’d rather be the reason for her sweatdrops.

I should just go back to the way I usually get my name in songs – inserting it manually. Whenever a song feels the need to use “you” in its lyrics, I simply replace it with a rhyming “Drew.”

It works the best when I’m in the car with other people. I make sure to start singing along with the song, and as soon as the “you” comes up, I blast in with a “Drew.” Do it enough times around them, and every time they hear that song later, they subconsciously insert the “Drew” themselves.

Gotta love rebranding. It has totally ruined The Reason by Hoobastank for all of my friends.

I’ve found out a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is Drew.