“hey there delilah”
this just in: wannabe lead singer of wannabe emo band wrote song about wannabe girlfriend:
“there was never anything between us. it was kind of funny — kind of sad, actually. the story of my life… i thought she was the most beautiful girl i had ever seen. i told her, ‘i have a song about you already.’ obviously, there was no song. but i thought it was smooth…”
the girl firing his passion was delilah dicrescenzo, “a columbia university graduate, and steeplechase runner training for the 2008 olympic trials.”
“it was so beautifully written”, she says. “there was pressure to live up to this ideal. i didn’t know how to be polite but, you know, ditch him.”
your song for delilah isn’t quixotic; it doesn’t deserve my consideration when flipping radio channels because my cd player is broke. you’re a no talent hack. you write love songs about woman you meet in passing. how does your band feel knowing they are famous because of an acoustic song headlined by you. “deliliah” is clearly out of your league. call punk sensation avril lavigne.
congratulations tom higgenson, you’re on my hate list.
I am not even embarrased to admit my love for this jam. And yes, I said jam, because it’s one of those quality pieces I lip-sync with on my iPod. (It doesn’t make it that special, I pretty much do this to anything on my iPod… but I digress.) Yes, maybe our wannabe-lead-singer who could use more than a little help is whining per usual emo kid tendency, but the bigger idea is that he fell that hard for someone. Insert obnoxious sigh and AWWWWWW from female readers here. I’d say the vast majority of girls would love to be the girl a guy writes a song about. In theory, it sounds great, right? Have someone think you’re so beautiful, so wonderful, that you captivate them just by being you? I am a cynic so I know this man doesn’t exist, which is why our singer comes off as a stalker. But the girls who have hope, why crush their dreams? Maybe he actually creeped out Delilah, I can see where if you were a stalking victim that could happen. But if the intentions were better, it’d be considered sweet to those who would love the men who drift in and out of our lives to show a little emotion, dammit. Maybe he was a virgin at the time he wrote it, no one really knows, but this Delilah chick likely just had better options at the time.
This guy WISHES he knew a girl named Delilah. In reality, he sort of has a little crush on a girl who works at Dairy Queen named Lisa and she has a D.B. boyfriend Brad so she wouldn’t even talk to him anyway.
I couldn’t have said it better myself! Thanks a lot!!!
Thank you for sharing!