HIGH SCHOOL NEVER ENDS - BOWLING FOR SOUP
Frat band Bowling for Soup, which hit party pay dirt with 2004’s “1985,” returns with another madcap anthem about how the same petty rules that made high school miserable for most carry on in the real world. Set to a frantic beat and sing-songy rhymes, Soup’s lyric is utterly cunning, while being frighteningly spot-on: “Reese Witherspoon, she’s the prom queen/Bill Gates, captain of the chess team/Jack Black, the clown/Brad Pitt, the quarterback/ Still care about your hair or the car you drive/Doesn’t matter if you’re 16 or 35.” Set somewhere between Simple Plan and Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” this song is as catchy as it is universal. Billboard
