Maybe I'm just being a little too new wave for my own good here, but I find this young gentleman's video terribly (embarrassingly?) enjoyable.
The star is one "Mr. Kane" aka: Kane Chukro, a sweet-faced 20 year-old from Saskatchewan/Vegas/LA who is currently in some kind of video-contest on Yahoo. The video for his home studio recorded pop nugget - which he insists cost all of $30 to make in his garage (that's the spirit!) - is acres more pleasant than anything else in the contest it seems - not to say the competition was anywhere near stiff.
A quick tour of the Mr. Kane website reveals plenty more clever little power pop songs, the kind that would make Jason Falkner, Ben Folds, or members of The Knack surely want to sit down and split a beer, er... Mountain Dew with the gent. Some tracks go too long, but that's the folly of youth; others become too damn slick for their own good - reminding one of a yet unwritten theme song to a show about ironic young people on the WB, but all of this is just splitting hairs. At the heart of it all there's Kane's disarmingly well-honed knack for finding a hook and beating it into your skull until you can't help but sing along. And that means this young mister probably won't be label-free for long.
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