It's an unfortunate fact about the American music business that when Be Your Own Pet's Get Awkward came out here in the states (their home states, mind you) the album was edited of three songs that the label considered too outlandishly violent for the fragile hearts and mind's of America's youth. Never mind that Be Your Own Pet themselves are a band composed of said fragile hearts and minds... In lieu of a proper release of Get Awkward, we get Get Damaged, which contains the three songs deemed unsuitable for American audiences.

Becky reminds me of the movie Brick in that it casts high school in a light slightly different than what it was. I might have only gone to high school for my freshman year, but I remember days where I felt like I was a detective, trying to protect some girl (or someone) from sinister influences. I remember girls (and guys) declaring war on other kids. The drama was real and palpable, even if it never went to such extremes (such as a whole brick of drugs resulting in a murder, or just a regular girl deciding to stab her former BFF to death) we can still remember high school as seeming to be a harsh black/white reality of Sin City-style proportions.

Now, in a society where we've got 14 year old boys shooting 15 year old boys in the back of the head for allegedly hitting on them I guess maybe Becky hits kind of close to home to some people... but...

Well, I've got nothing else to say.

This song is fun and I don't give a fuck!