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    Niagara Falls: Harlem Shakes (2009)

    This might come out sounding like a backhanded compliment, but really, I swear, it’s not. I think Harlem Shakes have put out a better Peter Bjorn and John record than Peter Bjorn and John. Go ahead and scoff - all this hipster stuff is knock-off fad music anyway blah blah blah. Well, whatever. Nothing is original. Everything is a little Beatles, blues, and Bach.

    And to me, “Niagara Falls” seems to address the head-in-hands weariness of trying to stay fresh and relevant a scene overflowing with noncommittal, ironic gestures. “I don’t even know what I’m in the game for,” Lexy Benaim sings, followed by my favorite line, ”I don’t even get your T-shirt’s pun.” If there’s a lesson to be learned, it comes from a natural wonder, always there, always relevant, always fresh. Stay awake, break and break, crash and crash, flow and flow.

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