Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Pick-Me Boys And Girls

It’s election day in California, the time when primaries dump that first, refreshing splash of cold water on our hopes for sweeping change in the mid-terms.

Especially with the Cheesecake Factory Menu quality of the candidates for governor, it’s hard not to get a strong vibe of “Pick Me”.

I’d never heard of RiRi, I don’t know anything about her, and I don’t even know what language this song is in. From context clues I’m guessing it’s from somewhere in south Asia? In any case, the song is silly and basically inoffensive and even a little catchy, even if it instantly evaporates the second it’s over.

It’s the least offensive out of everything that came up when I did a search in Apple Music, which makes it an even more perfect symbol for this election.

We’re in a situation where the candidate for governor with the most progressive platform is a billionaire who made a fortune as a hedge fund manager. Something he’s addressed in the non-stop ads we’ve been subjected to; he’s poured an obscene amount of money into the election, overspending his closest opponents by several orders of magnitude.

So maybe we’ve got to accept that Nada Surf was overly optimistic, and you can’t get “The One You Want.” You have to settle for the one who’s not enough of a sex pest that he was forced to drop out of the race, and the one who’s not running as an establishment Democrat even after the last presidential race clearly showed that people don’t want that, and we want to believe in actual, tangible progress again.