Anything But Joey scored a local smash with its superslick single "Girl Roommate," a sugar-pop confection that left area scenesters divided. Some loved it, others detested it, but few could deny that it was a damn catchy tune -- perhaps a little
too catchy. As with the musical Hades that was "The Macarena," one had to hear the sing-songy chorus of "Roommate" only a few times before it was permanently etched into the brain, like it or not. But the song's wry lyrics, which recounted the frustrations of sharing living space with a
Victoria Secret catalog-subscribing über-tease, were dense with clever lyrics: The protagonist is charmed by the girl's
too-cute frog stuff in the bathroom, and has a dream --
You know the kind that change your mind/About life, about love/And about you too, not the band but the friend I know. The audience at Memorial Hall last December, when Joey opened for Good Charlotte and Jimmy Eat World, sure liked it -- the 3,000 attendees sang every word at the top of their lungs, cementing this Kansas City quartet's reputation as a hot local boy band and annoying the shit out of everyone else.
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