“Make America Great Again.” Yeah, okay. These clowns have been in our country’s political scene for like over ten years now, and I haven’t seen much “greatness.” “Tariff” this and “complete erosion of our foundational political norms coupled with total egregious corruption and fear” that. But have I heard Sponge on the radio once in this period of neo-fascism? I certainly haven’t. I heard everything but the standout college rock songs of the 1990s. There’s nothing so “great” about that.
When I was a kid in the 1990s, Sponge seemed to be associated with all the fun a kid could have in that decade. “Rotting Piñata” was the soundtrack to every mall visit, miniature golf experience, and every custody battle I was involved in. There is not one bad memory of loading into the family car, driving to a roller skating rink with “Sixteen Candles” playing on the local college rock radio station.
Now, fast forward 30 years, and look at what our lives have become.
Now, it’s all “pay your electric bill” and “you have to stop eating all those Funyuns or you’ll probably die.” Man, back when America was actually great, I never had to worry about that stuff, or being thrown in an El Salvadorian prison. But worst of all, all of this shit is going on without “Plowed” popping on 95.1 as I’m crying on my way to work. No more malls, no more miniature golf, sure, maybe one or two more custody battles, but even they just aren’t the same. I hope you people who voted for this got what you wished for.
In order to truly turn things around in this country, I would suggest a total overthrow of the cookie-cutter, business-over-art state of the radio business. Then we implement non-stop 90s college rock radio across the airwaves. We could truly make “America Great Again,” through the likes of Sponge and even the Toadies, the soundtrack to our real revolution.