Jonny Lives! - Get Steady

Why would I want to hear “It’s a cliché, everything I say/and all the games that we play, every single day” when I can hear “I’m a jet setter/I fuck her and forget her” instead? Is it clever to write a vapid song full of boring lyrics and call it “Cliché”? Not when you’ve got a song called “Get Steady” that shames that forced sincerity in every way. Jonny Lives! envisions mainstream success by getting a song on the Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj soundtrack, a potential indication that they’re not aiming any further than to be pleasantly forgotten among a bunch of other bands that aren’t quite as good. But then lead singer Jonny Dubowsky goes off and says “There's a copious amount of debauchery going on, and it's all inspiration for our music” and Taj seems like it might be a forgettable misstep. As of right now, Jonny Lives! is way too safe to do any of the things they’re capable of, but if they shake some shit up, like if one of them deliberately crashes his car into a school bus, this band could kick ass. [www.jonnylives.com]