I’m a legend in the locker room.

I enjoy the Gym Class Heroes. Really only As Cruel As Schoolchildren, but Papercut Chronicles is good too. I never cared about them — I liked Cupid’s Chokehold and didn’t know anything else — until I saw them live, and I fell in love. Travis McCoy is an amazing frontman. He’s neurotic and funny and energetic. He got two girls from the crowd up on stage between songs, and was talking about how beautiful they are for a while. He then said, “but looks can be deceiving,” and started talking about how women are bitches and shit and then played “Cupid’s Chokehold” or something. It was great.

Anyway. I saw them twice, listened to them all the time, and then broke up with my girlfriend and haven’t listened to them since, because we spent hella time driving around with Schoolchildren on my stereo. I decided the other day, though, that I don’t care anymore, so I’m listening to them again. They still rock!

“Cupid’s Chokehold” is still an amazing love song, and “The Queen And I” is rockin’. They do a great job of keeping a pop sensibility while touching on more serious subjects: “The Queen And I” could be a dance song but it’s about dating an alcoholic girl and not being able to fix it because he’s scared of losing her, so he won’t leave her or try to stop her drinking. It’s depressing!

“Viva La White Girl” bores me, I never really got the hype on that one.

“Clothes Off!” remains an amazing dance song, with such sublime lines as “on a scale from one to awesome, I’m the shit” and “My leg’s going numb from keeping my phone on vibrate to hide the fact that your girlfriend keeps texting me.” His cockiness is awesome. On the other hand, “New Friend Request” is just funny (and I rather like the video). It’s one of the only sort of joking song about technology and nerdiness that I think stands up as a good song, because it’s about how sad he is that he can’t even find a girl on Myspace.

Some of the songs get sort of boring from their guitar-riffs over rap drum beats style, which gets tiresome unless done extremely well. Overall, I think the album sounds good, has a lot of content (the songs aren’t all silly pop songs) and he’s got a good flowing going. It’s worth a listen.