German #10: Metro Station "Shake It"

Lady Gaga is still ruling the German charts and so, as always, I was looking for something else to review this week.
And I found a song that makes you wonder whether removing birching from the set of educational sanctions was really such a good idea.



A guy with some rubbish in his face and big bad motherfucker tatoos but gay hair has the vocal lead, being supported in yelling the chorus by some other dude, who definitely looks like a little fat girl. There are two more band members, but I am not sure I have seen them in the video and I do not really care to look again for them.
Shake It is a mediocre kids song that does not live up to the sorta punk heritage the band seems to have defined as their dress code, but fits the callow vocal abilities of the singers. The simple upbeat track combines an end of 80's rock chorus with lyrics of teenage shagging experiences and out of place dancers, who sport the usual mix of breakdance, popping and locking styles in the video to earn money on the side to buy food.

This is one of those songs that instantly gets on your nerves and makes you wanna punch the singers repeatedly.
With wooden slats.

Shocking to read comments like:

DoNtCaRe: This song is so cool, do you know miley cyrus'
brother and mitchel musso's brother is in this band!!!

Don't care!

XBaBieX15: omg metro station .. i am so despreate will you marry me

One of those sentences you'd never thought you'd read in your life... hm, so you wanna marry all of these guys?
What are you - polyandrous?! (careful - this is NOT a Greek goddess)

Anyway, time flies. And if you wanna avoid wasting 3:05 minutes of your life, don't watch the video...