Bayside call out "bullsh*t" bands in new single, "Dancing Like An Idiot"

February 17, 2015

Bayside have premiered a new single, titled “Dancing Like An Idiot,” along with an accompanying lyric video, over at Billboard. Check them out below and leave us a comment with your thoughts!

“These bands are just writing giant curses on t-shirts and selling it to a kid cause they know the kid is stupid enough to buy it,” frontman Anthony Raneri told Billboard on the inspiration behind the track. “You're telling them it's cool to buy a t-shirt to piss their parents off. There's nothing cool about that — that's mall rebellion. That's not real rebellion. I grew up liking the Smiths, liking Nirvana… I fucking hated Guns N' Roses. It was bullshit, misogynistic, it was fake rebellion — nothing is more corporate and commercialized.”

“We thought that it was just too obvious and not smart enough to put pictures of the bands we're talking about and want to make fun of,” he continued. “So the middle ground is that we used all their fonts to write the words… In the background it's all clips from movies – clips from Idiocracy, clips from Wizards from the '70s, clips from The Three Stooges, clips that sort of told the story from the song.”

“Dancing Like An Idiot” is taken from the band's upcoming reissue of their latest studio effort, Cult, which is due out on March 3 via Hopeless Records. The re-release will also feature three other new tracks alongside “Dancing Like An Idiot.”