The Bad Actors and The Infamists Reviewed
The Bad Actors – Knock-Off Rolex
You want to sell something? Are you looking for advice on how to do it, and are you willing to ask the experts? Well, I’m sorry to tell you, but all of them will start, always, with the same instruction.
They’ll tell you to head online. They’ll advise you to buy a camera and broadcast, preferably, every moment of your life to whoever is scrolling for hours online and who might feel a connection to you.
It’s sound advice, I suppose. But then you look around at all the people doing the same thing as you are. You see them bragging, flexing, showing off. And you don’t believe a word that they’re saying. The Bad Actors have a new song about this breed of online serial liars.
“Knock-Off Rolex” is angry and hilarious. It’s a song about people obsessed with impressing others who they’ll never meet in the real world. It’s a song that looks to bring back the hard-edged funk and hip-hop stylings of the early 1990s. It’s a song about what’s real and what could never be.
The Infamists – Necromojomancer
If you’re like hasn’t exactly helped you land where you hope it would, you need to start making stuff up. Don’t waste any time! Do it now and go all out! No, I’m not suggesting that you start shamelessly lying on job applications or that you tell your parents you’ve moved into a mansion when you haven’t. It doesn’t just work as easily as that.
But it is some kind of magic; make no mistake about it. The whole thing not only balances out your psyche, but it also gets the Universe whistling along to your tune.
Best of all, you can do it in any way that you want. Write a story, pen a song, or join a bunch of similar-minded geeks for frequent sessions of Dungeons & Dragons.
The Infamists have done all of the above for the geek swaggering “Necromojomancer.” Yes, yes, it’s a song about wizards and the supernatural. Sure, it’s the sort of song that would make Ronnie James Dio smile, call his former bandmates and scream at them: “Told you so!” And, damn, it’s the truth as long as you want it to be.
