Add Me

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The song is "Add Me" from Chumbawamba's last album, "The Boy Bands Have Won" or, to give it it's full title; "The boy bands have won, and all the copyists and the tribute bands and the TV talent show producers have won, if we allow our culture to be shaped by mimicry, whether from lack of ideas or from exaggerated respect. You should never try to freeze culture. What you can do is recycle that culture. Take your older brothers hand-me-down jacket and re-style it, re-fashion it to the point where it becomes your own. But dont just regurgitate creative history, or hold art and music and literature as fixed, untouchable and kept under glass. The people who try to guard any particular form of music are, like the copyists and manufactured bands, doing it the worst disservice, because the only thing that you can do to music that will damage it is not change it, not make it your own. Because then it dies, then its over, then its done, and the boy bands have won."

If you are interested, here are the lyrics:

"I'm a loner alone with neuroses and hate
Anger is a permanent character trait
My letter bombs are primed and ready to send
Would you like to add me as a friend?
I'm a wound-up whiner with a fetish for guns
I'm almost 50 and I live with my Mum
I hope my nude picture doesn't offend
Would you like to add me as a friend?

Add me. Add me
My mother says she wished she'd never had me
Add me. Add me
Would you like to add me as a friend?

I'm a recovering alcoholic I rarely leave my room
Peeping through the curtains in my dog costume
The voices in my head aah they'll get me in the end
Would you like to add me as a friend?
I'd really like to mail you the picture that I drew
It's Kylie's body but the head is you
I've asked you fifty times before I'm asking you again ?
Would you like to add me as a friend?

Add me. Add me
My mother says she wished she'd never had me
Add me. Add me
Would you like to add me as a friend?

Here's a picture of me in my Nazi uniform
doing a trick with an egg that I like to perform
at a monster truck rally that my Mum and me attend
Would you like to add me as a friend?

I've added Britney and Paris and you and Tom
I'm going to find your address so I can visit you at home
I don't like people but I like to pretend ?
Would you like to add me as a friend?
Add me. Add me
My mother says she wished she'd never had me
Add me. Add me
Would you like to add me as a friend?"