Tsunami Bomb – Lemonade

Album:
Invasion From Within [EP]
Year :
2001
RIYL :
Less Than Jake / The Bouncing Souls / Pretty Girls Make Graves

My first post to the daily soundtrack! A seminal moment for me, because I love music as much as these guys. It feels pretty great that Alex invited me to post songs that I love occasionally. As it turns out, I’m the only lady in this mix at the moment so when picking my first song, I thought it’d be good to hit the ground running with one of my favorite, and now seemingly defunct, female-fronted punk bands.

Tsunami Bomb came into my life when I had all the fists to throw into the air during aimless car rides through New Jersey back roads, when gas was hovering around a dollar a gallon so it didn’t matter if I drove for hours, when every heartbreak seemed like total destruction, and any song that pointed the finger back at the offender was emotional gold. Agent M, Tsunami Bomb’s lead singer, was tough (and I knew it) as she wailed through the tiny, round speakers in my car. She wasn’t going to let anyone keep her down. And as someone heading out of my teenage years and into my twenties, I wanted to be like that.

In retrospect, the fact that music like this got under my skin—rather than the bubblegum pop licks heard on any run-of-the-mill Top 40 station—may have saved me a lot of trouble. Despite being so young, I started to become someone who refused to fall apart when life got hard, as it always does. I ran into situations (both good and bad) head first and tried to ready myself for whatever was coming. Now, at 30, I know that being fearless is just who I am. This reminder comes at a good time because I’m about to embark on something really big, another huge change in my life that will set me off in a brand new path. I needed to be reminded that I have faced worse and will likely do so again and that with the right mindset, I can face anything and come out tough, fist in the air, and smiling.

Tsunami Bomb’s “Lemonade” isn’t about big life changes, it’s about a failed relationship, the hurt and how to deal. So even though Agent M is telling her ex to fuck off because he/she sucks, there’s a lesson here. At least there was for me. How to deal. It’s a lesson a lot of folks miss without even realizing it.

“Not broken, still standing, been ripped apart but I’m demanding… No more shit, this is it. I’m leaving for myself and no one else.”

In short, fuck the haters, keep your head up, and be bad ass because it’s much better than the alternative. Cheers.



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