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| Popmatters |
 Sisterworld, the fifth release from Liars, is an album rife with illusion. “The Overachievers”, Sisterworld‘s second single, may be the most illusive song on it. One of the punkiest cuts from the band’s entire catalog, it is a character scribble of some earth-conscious folks who drive a bio-car that sounds like “a walrus / with ulcers” and who give up on their day jobs, only to end up sitting in front of the tube. The aimlessness of the narrative is conveyed not in a drone but in an aggressive yammer by Liars frontman Angus Andrew. Thus, the song is twofold ironic. Content-wise, it presents a story of a couple who don’t do very much, in spite of living in a song with a title indicating ambition and drive. Secondly, the song is a breakneck assault, equipped with a chorus of “L!A!” shouted in a way beseeching a riot. Returning to the former irony, a second interpretation could see it as really not being ironic at all. The song’s titular characters drive the aforementioned wheezy bio-car, surf in Malibu so as to better see the stars, and quit their jobs to go walking through forests: all activities that are environmentally ambitious. What for? In the end we see the couple in the same place as when the song began, getting high in front of the television. They have gone out of their way to accomplish nothing. The whole of Sisterworld takes place in L.A. In a way very different from other songs on the album, “The Overachievers” showcases the way in which this deceptive city renders its various inhabitants futile....full text |
| Mog |
| "The Overachievers", the second single from Liars' Sisterworld, may be the most illusive song on the album. Sisterworld, the fifth release from Liars, is an album rife with illusion. "The Overachievers", Sisterworld's second single, may be the most illusive song on it. One of the punkiest cuts from the band's entire catalog, it is a character scribble of some earth-conscious folks who drive a bio-car that sounds like "a walrus / with ulcers" and who give up on their day jobs, only to end up sitting in front of the tube...full text |
| Itunes |
| Customer Reviews Yep by low baron Walking in the forest ?? by Knight8om Awful. Don't listen to this. I can't believe this. Please find a new profession, people....full text |
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