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Blake Sennett, the man behind The Elected and Rilo Kiley, used to be on the Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts, which I watched growing up. (He looks so young!)

God, know that I’ve spent half an hour looking up stuff about Salute Your Shorts on Wikipedia, I don’t even feel like writing anything about this song.

If you’re sick of the bullshit that Rilo Kiley has been putting out, all that ya ya ya moneymaker we’re soulless assholes dancey pop shit, then you need to listen to The Elected. Blake Sennett splits away from Lewis and creates the music (I bet) he wants to create in Rilo Kiley. I am not a fan of Lewis (in fact I pretty much hate her and her country posturing bullshit–Lewis, you’re from San Diego, stop pretending you’re from the south, it’s so goddamn insincere it kills me) and after/during More Adventurous my love of Rilo Kiley started dwindling, and Under The Blacklight killed it solidly dead. If you miss albums like The Execution of All Things, and don’t listen to The Elected yet, you’re missing out. It’s Sennett who carried all the creative weight behind Rilo Kiley, not Lewis. The Elected’s albums prove this.