So apparently The Bird and the Bee, another of your adorable indie pop duos, is putting out an album of Hall and Oates covers in March. And let me tell you, judging by the like five-second clips on that Pop Justice post, it is going to be so harmless. Like, imagine the band you put on when you want to impress some Zooeyalike who wears $200 vintage-inspired dresses and prefers her friends and lattés fat-free. Now imagine the band that your dad puts on in the car when he gets to choose the music but he wants to please your mom. (Digression: realize that Dad is you in fifteen-or-so years; freak out.) The same sort of socio-emotional dynamic. Square it. I think even your grandma is wincing from the gentleness right now. Hall and Oates may be an “ironic appreciation” sort of band now, but they earn that title by virtue of having been great pop songsmiths. The songs are so dumb but they are catchy as hale! And my question to the Bird and the Bee is, why do you need to do this? It’ll be interesting to see, as we hear more from the album, how much re-imagining they do of Hall and Oates’s work, how much they make it “their own.” ‘Cause the Bird and the Bee are way closer to Hall and Oates than your twee girlfriend would be comfortable admitting.

So apparently The Bird and the Bee, another of your adorable indie pop duos, is putting out an album of Hall and Oates covers in March. And let me tell you, judging by the like five-second clips on that Pop Justice post, it is going to be so harmless.

Like, imagine the band you put on when you want to impress some Zooeyalike who wears $200 vintage-inspired dresses and prefers her friends and lattés fat-free. Now imagine the band that your dad puts on in the car when he gets to choose the music but he wants to please your mom. (Digression: realize that Dad is you in fifteen-or-so years; freak out.) The same sort of socio-emotional dynamic. Square it. I think even your grandma is wincing from the gentleness right now.

Hall and Oates may be an “ironic appreciation” sort of band now, but they earn that title by virtue of having been great pop songsmiths. The songs are so dumb but they are catchy as hale! And my question to the Bird and the Bee is, why do you need to do this? It’ll be interesting to see, as we hear more from the album, how much re-imagining they do of Hall and Oates’s work, how much they make it “their own.” ‘Cause the Bird and the Bee are way closer to Hall and Oates than your twee girlfriend would be comfortable admitting.