“Paid Holiday” doesn’t strike one immediately as an offbeat song but not many songs by don’t get lemon do. The music video shows a man dressed like a character from a movie set in the Napoleon Dynamite universe and looking like it’s shot on Super-8. It fits the song about a guy living with delusions of low rent grandeur and constantly living a life of “adventure” unattached to obligations and somehow skating by on fantasies of a nomadic “lifestyle” thinking he’s living the high life on the cheap, going on until the wheels come off and dreaming of that life of being his own man with no expectations for himself than dubious luxury. It’s a way of being in which you have to tell yourself it’s what you want even if it’s ultimately unsustainable. And yet the song has a beautifully fuzzy melody and lends the depicted a soundtrack to his dreams of freedom and dignity. It’s an expansive synth pop song that like certain Wes Anderson movies the style brings a sense of romance to the unromantic and the contrast between the images of the video, the lyrics and the music is what sets the song apart from most other synth pop. Watch the video for “Paid Holiday” on YouTube and follow don’t get lemon at the links below.
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