If youve ever spent time scrolling through a YouTube comments section, you know that even a seemingly innocuous viral video can inspire angry and idiotic rants. But now, thanks to the Decemberists, Internet stupidity sounds a lot sweeter. The band dropped byJimmy Kimmel Live!on Thursday to promote their new studio album,What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful Worldbut they also teased a fictional (but hilarious) LP of songs set to YouTube comments.
They write interesting, very intelligent songs about uncommon subjects, Kimmel said of the band to open the clip. Its not the usual, I wanna get busy with your bottom kinda thing. The band then performed a handful of selections from the YouTube album, as the videos and grammatically incoherent comments flash behind them. They opened with a major-key sing-along inspired by responses from an adorable panda video. Yeah cute now but theyll eat your ass if theyre hungry enough, sings frontman Colin Meloy.
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Other highlights include Noisy Kittens Waiting for Dinner (anchored by that classic chorusI CANT BELIEVE I MAKE $5000 A MONTH WORKING FROM HOME!!!! CLICK LINK BELOW TO FIND OUT HOW), a catchy tirade against Justin Bieber (or Beaver) and a dramaticrun-on sentence defense of Kim Kardashians plastic surgery, or lack thereof (OMG she proved she didnt have a butt implants [sic] with a butt X-ray and she admitted she gets Botox she does squats her nose still has a hump in it if you actually at [sic] a recent pic of her nose you will see it).
In December, Meloy talked toRolling Stoneabout the Decemberists new album and the effortless chemistry he has with his bandmates. Weve been around long enough and were adults, so everybody comes back to it in a very I hate to say professional way, because it sounds so austere and sterile, but everybody knows what they do well at this point, he said. Not to say that there wasnt room for us to challenge one another, but for the most part, it was as if we were all climbing under the same comfortable duvet on a cold winters night and snuggling close.