Dear Dear

by Boy Girl Party

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“Got hooked on Dear Dear because of "Be a Jerk", but "Cat" was the one that made me stay. It also got me through a 12-hour flight.”
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about

Dear Dear shows off sweet 3-part harmonies over pop melodies that punch & crackle out of gritty-but-clean power chords. The band's cumulative love of piano-based pop, post-punk, contemporary praise music and the American songbook burrows down into the fertile Brooklyn indie rock scene and emerges with 18 1/2 minutes of catchy indie pop which they are kind of sorry will be stuck in your head for maybe longer than you want.

They recorded it in Brooklyn at galuminum foil studios.

credits

released 11 May 2012
lead vox, piano, organ, tambourine - melissa lusk
guitar, banjitar - matt berger
bass, rhodes - pete scalzitti
backing vox, ukulele, piano, tambourine - leigh jones
backing vox, organ - emma koenig
drums, backing vox - hiroyuki matsuura
shaker - gary atturio
viola - emily bookwalter

produced by gary atturio at galuminum foil studios in BK
mastered by alex deturk at masterdisk

all songs written by melissa lusk and arranged by melissa lusk and matt berger

tags

tags: pop dance-pop folk indie indie pop rock New York

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Boy Girl Party has a little chip on their shoulder, but a few minutes on the dance floor shakes it off. Sincerely nerdy and unabashedly silly, they are on a constant hunt for new band friends and dance partners with a decent sense of time and a better sense of humor. ... more

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Track Name: Be a Jerk
I want money like a rich man's wife
Fantasize about an easy life
Rollin' in the Benz
Everybody's friends
With me

I want money like the government
Entourage just like the President
Wad of Benjamins
Everybody wins
With me

But if I gotta be a jerk
Yeah, if I gotta be a jerk
If I gotta be a jerk
To the ones who really work
To get ahead
I will stay behind instead

Well, I want money like the MTA
Pair of Jimmy Choos for every day
Paris to Japan
Everyone's a fan
Of me

But if I gotta be a c---
Yeah, if I gotta be a c---
If I gotta be a c---
To get everything I want
Then it's ok
I don't want it anyway

But if I gotta be a jerk
Yeah, if I gotta be a jerk
If I gotta be a jerk
To the ones who really work
To get ahead
I will stay behind instead
Track Name: Don't Bother Me
Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me anymore

Brave like pioneers
Sensitive like a cut
Pulling at the thread
That's keeping all the sutures shut

Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me anymore

Got a thousand bucks
Hidden under the couch
It's a human right
To keep your money in your mouth

Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me
Don't bother me Don't bother me anymore
Track Name: Feeling Of
You don’t look as different as I thought you would
‘Member when I kissed you just because I could?
And everything still looks the same, it feels the same to me
Maybe after all this time I cannot trust my memory

Same old ceiling, same old shirt you always wear
Never bought a new one ‘cause you never cared
Everybody knows your name ‘cause it’s the same one as your dad
We were talking so much shit, but things were never really that bad

And in between the lines I got
The color of, the color of
the memory of the color of your eyes
And in between the sighs I got
the feeling of the feeling of
the memory of the feeling of
the memory of the feeling of
the memory of the feeling of
the memory of the feeling of

And everything still looks the same, it feels the same to me
Maybe after all this time I cannot trust my memory

And in between the lines I got
The color of, the color of
the memory of the color of your eyes
And in between the sighs I got
the feeling of the feeling of
the memory of the feeling of
the memory of the feeling of
the memory of the feeling of
the memory of the feeling of
Track Name: Cat
I love my mama
I love my dad
I love my brother, my dog and my cat
But we can't have
The family that we had
It makes me so sad
Oh, it makes me so sad
But everybody says that's part of life
Yeah, everybody says that's part of life

Uh-oh, oh

Everybody says that's part of life
Yeah everybody says that's part of life

I hate this city
I hate this rain
People call it a gritty town,
But all they mean is that it's bleeding pain
Alone and scared
Overgrown and underprepared
And you know that nobody cares
Yeah, you know that nobody cares
But everybody says that's how it is
Yeah everybody says that's how it is

Uh-oh, oh

Everybody says, yeah everybody says...
Track Name: Know You Know
Brother gonna be a teacher one day
Yeah, he gonna tell you what it's all about
He gonna be an expert on everything
He gonna break your mind & let the knowledge out, oh
Brother gonna be a teacher one day
Yeah, he gonna tell you what it's all about
All like, this is that, it's complicated
'Cause I know it but I can't explain it

Sister gonna be a mama one day
Yeah, she gonna tell you what it's all about
She gonna be an expert on mama things
She gonna make her mama's mama proud, oh
Sister gonna be a mama one day
Yeah, she gonna tell you what it's all about
All like, this is that, it's complicated
'Cause I know it but I can't explain it

I know you didn't wanna hurt nobody
Know you did whatever that you thought was good
I know you're tryin to fix it like everybody
Tryin' to make a home out of a neighborhood
I know you didn't wanna hurt nobody
Know you did whatever that you thought was good
All like, this is that, it's complicated
'Cause I know it but I can't explain it

Can't explain it

Brother gonna be a teacher one day
Yeah, he gonna show you what it's all about
He gonna be an expert on everything
He gonna break your mind & let the knowledge out, oh
Brother gonna be a teacher one day
Yeah, he gonna tell you what it's all about
All like, this is that, it's complicated
'Cause I know it but I can't explain it

Can't explain it

But I know you know
(this is that, it's complicated 'cause I know it but I can't explain)
Yeah, I know you know
(this is that, it's complicated 'cause I know it but I can't explain)
I know you know
(this is that, it's complicated 'cause I know it but I can't explain)
I know you know