Here's a challenge. I want my fellow oldheads to name me a Semisonic song besides "Closing Time" without using the Google. If any of you youngbloods can tell me what a Semisonic is without looking it up, you get two kudos. The band has been mentioned twice in the past thirty years. The first was when their hit was on MTV TRL (shout out Carson Daly). The second was yesterday when they complained about the White House using their song to brag about deporting criminals.

It was this hilarious video:

The song is "Closing Time" by a band called Supersonic. It's a song about lowering your standards at the end of the night. Since then, it's morphed into a generic background track when you need to mark the end of something.

Not unlike how chasing heroin anthems like "There She Goes" and tweaking on crystal meth jams like "Semi-Charmed Life" found their way into Pfizer commercials, movie trailers, and teen dramas (shout out Dawson's Creek) just because of their happy, up-tempo beats. The 90s were a weird time. And don't get me started on the 80s.

As I'm sure you could guess, the band is speaking out! After finding out who from their management company had their Twitter password (and shutting off replies once they caught a ratio), lead singer Guy Incognito (I don't feel like looking up his name) had this to say:

We did not authorize or condone the White House’s use of our song “Closing Time" in any way. And no, they didn’t ask. The song is about joy and possibilities and hope, and they have missed the point entirely.

The song is about hooking up with a 4 once all the 8s and above have already left with someone. "Possibilities?" Sure. "Joy?" Mayhaps. "Hope?" Your hope ran out of the bar two hours ago.

Trump's Department of Edgelords took the lyric "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" to help illustrate to people here illegally that they don't have to go home... but they can't stay here. A more appropriate use than hook-up culture or pharmaceutical commercials, no?

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