Man Like Me “Single Dad”
Nearly bursting out of it’s seams with a kitchen-sink-like musical make-up that dabbles in DIY electro-pop, Streets-y UK rap and bits of 2-Tone, “Single Dad” from London trio Man Like Me, almost feels too rambunctious for it’s own good, but in the end it emerges a keeper, it’s ever-morphing bag o’ sonic tricks held together under an amusing lyric about one of the most frightening things that could ever happen to a responsibility-phobic young man.
“Shock! Horror!” cries singer/ rapper Johnny at the news that he’s about to become a dad, “How can you be a father?/ Yourself you can’t look after/ Let alone another”. If this was Maury Povich, he would be the one frantically racing to that damn back hallway, Povich hot at his heels, not to console him, but rather to cruelly continue informing Johnny that he’s “99.9% sure” he’s the pop.
As the track’s lively main boogie of bobbing basslines and blaring horn fare illustrate the pressure-cooked chaos his life now falls under, Johnny dizzily speeds his way through all kinds of panicky emotions, at one point selfishly wondering aloud how this sudden revelation will disturb his music career aspirations. Alas, he eventually cools down and comes around to accepting the new “tag” thrust upon him, resulting in “Single Dad”‘s greatest moment: a charmingly melodic detour that finds him re-assuring himself that “It’s gonna work out in the end sometime/ I’ve got to…believe it”.
A contagious serving of real-life humor delivered under an equally wacky musical pedigree (we’re especially fond of the out-of-nowhere steel drum celebration that arises towards the song’s end), “Single Dad” has enough entertaining ideas bubbling within it’s four minute frame to generate some curiosity in what other intriguing hilarities their Spring-set debut will have to offer. In the meantime, hit up their MySpace to peep more LOL-worthy video clips and download (for FREE) their B-Sides & Rarities mixtape.
The single will be digitally available February 9th.
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