I talked a lot of shit on TikTok for years, to my wife, who used it for a long time before I finally caved in and started using it. But all it would show me was half-naked women dancing poorly, so I deleted it for a year or two until picking it back up again, and these days my feed is a lot of DIY music, dachshunds, horses acting like big dogs (which I didn't know I had any interest in), and occasionally better clothed women dancing pretty well.

For quite a while, the DIY music I would get was really bad, but in recent months the music has started to get a lot better. Now, you might be listening to this song now, thinking, "Is this supposed to be the better music he's talking about?" to which I answer, yes, actually, I am! No, wait, don't leave!

Well, whatever, I guess not everyone is going to get it, but that's okay. Victor Jones calls this dance punk and, you know, that is probably the best description for it. It's like a bizarro mix of Electric Six and... uh... some other music... like... LCD Soundsystem... god, I asked Google AI and it said Jeff Rosenstock and Gilla Band... what?? I mean, I guess I can see the Jeff Rosenstock comparison, lyrically, especially with Jones' 2025 breakout hit "Shoulder Song", which might be more your speed if you don't like this one.

There's a term people use derogatorily toward music on TikTok, if it's painfully mediocre, they call it "coworker music"–and good lord, if I ever publicly post music and someone calls it "coworker music" I will curb stomp myself–and you know what, if Victor Jones' songwriting wasn't so goddamn strong, this would probably be coworker music, but the kid's got heart, he's got a big ol' heart, and I can feel it in my bones. If you don't like this, fuck you!