Faking it.

So, has anyone else heard the new Relient K album? There's this song on it called "Faking My Own Suicide" and I really need to know if it strikes anyone else as creepy. It is a song about a guy faking his own suicide (obviously) so a girl will realize that she's in love with him. That, in itself isn't too bad, I tend to be a fan of the macabre and I'm sure I could find plenty of examples of songs in my ipod where a guy tries to use death to impress a girl ("My Bloody Valentine," anyone). There's just something about the idea that when the guy fakes his death, part of the girl dies, but when he comes back she's so happy just to see him that she doesn't care that he lied to her and broke her heart. Also, I think part of my problem is that it is a Relient K song. It's one thing when a band like My Chemical Romance decides to mix love and death, but Relient K comes up on itunes as religious music, and that's really weird. The fact is, I find it to be more strange when relatively normal people write songs about death and other creepy things than when weird bands do it. Let's talk examples:

Clay Aiken's "Invisible." Nobody seems to notice what a weird song that is. The gist of it is as follows: I wish I were invisible, then I'd watch you in your room... oh, wait! I am invisible. See, that's creepy. I don't want Clay Aiken watching me while I dress or sleep or do whatever I do when I think I'm alone in my room. The point is, that song makes me feel really uncomfortable.

On the other hand there's My Chemical Romance's "Famous Last Words." In this song, the guy says "the words I thought I'd never speak" to the girl who is going to leave him and she does nothing. Maybe she's dead. And somehow, the idea that Gerard Way is laying next to a girl, seriously considering whether she's dead is kind of adorable and romantic, while Clay Aiken hiding in a girls room is creepy and makes me want to get a restraining order against his entire album.

Anyway, I was just trying to figure out how creepy is too creepy. I guess there's a double-standard going on there. Creepy people can act as weird as they want with little consequence while normal people become much too strange quite fast. Maybe it's just a matter of whether you're trying or not. I think if Relient K or Clay Aiken had meant to make me that uncomfortable, they would have made me a lot less uncomfortable.

Well, that's all for now, and remember: every breath you take, I'll be watching you.