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** (out of four)


Man, these days I can't tell my Switchfoot from my Breaking Benjamin from my Killers from my Hoobastank. Their singles all have that bland, indistinguishable quality. The only thing that makes this "Stars" at all different from everything else on the TGIFriday's Muzack playlist during a random Tuesday happy hour is - this guy cannot stop looking at the fucking stars.

Yeah, the singer gives his bandmates an occasional look to the left and right, and he sings very intently into the microphone at times. He even ends up floating in mid-air, kicking his Converse around and flopping like a fish. But his favorite thing to do, in the whole wild world? Stare at the goddamn stars. Because the stars make him feel like himself.

This guy keeps looking up to the stars even when rain starts pouring down on him and his band and their electrically powered equipment. Hey, man - I know what it's like to lose a CD open-box discount boombox you bought for $34.80 from Best Buy to a rainstorm because you're busy staring at the sky for hours.

This guy's a modern-rock frontman, I was a 25-year-old slacker on mushrooms* during a camping trip, but I know I'll never leave equipment out in the rain because I'm absorbed by nature's light show again. Psychotropic drugs or not.


* = Haven't taken them since, uh, Mom.