suburban robots that monitor reality

So I finally got around to checking out some Devo 2.0 songs today. You've probably heard of them, but I hope for the sake of an interesting post that you haven't. Okay, so Devo 2.0 is:

- a Devo cover band
- composed entirely of children, and
- released by Walt Disney Records.

Okay. So it's sort of like the insipid and horrible Kidzbop, except that the 'casting', production and most of the record's instrumentation were done by original members of Devo. Oh, and the songs are all great, and performed energetically and with some of the weird vocal quirks that make Mark Mothersbaugh so fun to listen to, as opposed to the shit that gets shittily covered by the shitty Kidzbop singers and the shitty production team that shits shit all over that shit.

The whole thing is so... random. Who at Disney decided that Devo was going to be the next big thing with 8-year-olds? And who decided that the only thing keeping Devo from being the aforementioned next big thing was the age of the nerds in the band?

The best part of the whole thing is... okay, well, it's that the songs still sound awesome and I love Devo. But the SECOND best part of the whole thing is the fact that some lyrics were changed to be more kid-friendly, with hilarious results. I don't remember "Uncontrollable Urge" being about between-meal snacks, but maybe I just missed the subtext in the original version.

Okay, I take back the part about Devo 2.0 being targeted at 8-year-olds. It's pretty clear that this record was made for me alone, perhaps as an apology from Disney for [i]Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles.[/i]