Tapping into the same slacker / nerd culture as the Flaming Lips and Weezer (before it became the Rivers show) Ben Folds Five walk that tightrope between the kind of emotion driven and thoughful material that Folds would focus on with his solo efforts while at the same time playing the slackers hanging out, being dumped (Song For The Dumped) and even on one occastion being too short (one angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces).
Ben Folds best viewed as the Elton John for the MTV generation knows that the piano is not limited to one kind of song and instead like the aforementioned Elton John and Billy Joel puts it front and centre even if on occastion it sounds more like he's attacking the keys and only making his first song book "Learn to Play Piano With Ben Folds" all he more humerous as nobody plays piano like he does.
This track I first stumbled across when it was used for the end titles of the fantastic "Nirvana: The Band, The Show" and since then it's become one of those songs I can just keep on repeat and it never gets old with the video perfectly highlighting the lyrics of the song with it's use of changing scenery and theatre flats in a style reminisant of Michell Gondry though no details seemingly exsist about who directed it only making it more of a curiosity amongst 90's music videos.
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