Best Coast are rapidly becoming the names embedded in the mouths of music loving teens as “their new favourite band.” Their debut album Crazy For You released this year has successfully charmed everyone around them. They are not concerned in the likes of death and religion for song inspirations they just want to express the pain, envy and joy that comes and goes with love. The album opener Boyfriend is considered to be the best song on the album. The unashamedly envious lyrics that lead singer Bethany Consentino displays in their lo-fi style underlines a certain amount of playground jealousy that I’m sure almost everyone has felt in their lives at some point. This combined with her honest and self-conscious look at herself “The other girl is not like me she’s prettier and skinnier/She has a college degree/I dropped out when I was 17” means we can’t help but feel for her as she laments that she’d “love him to the very end” and it leaves us feeling slightly heartbroken for her. Here they prove why they should stand out from other lo-fi bands that have sprung up in the last year or so and completely justify the acclaim that has so rightly come their way.
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