Song of the Day: “Vans,” The Pack
The most insidiously catchy song of 2006 has a spiritual sequel of sorts, and you’ll be hearing about it very soon, but, for now, the song du jour is the original model. If the tambourine-tapping, revving-keyboard chorus were any more hypnotic, the CIA would eschew torture. The verses, which are mostly there to support the paean to the titular skate slip-ons, aren’t much, but there’s a inherent, languid snobbery that makes it eminently obvious the Bay Area boys are definitely the cool kids in class; their song is almost as icy, the most detached enthusiasm possible. It’s “My Adidas,” writ subdued, for the millennial generation.
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