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Alfred Soto: This Australian hit hoots its way to our shores, its principal attractions the strumming and shouting, which come off like Mumfordized Adam Ant. I don’t know what to make of those lyrics either: triumph of love with Geronimo as model?
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Anthony Easton: Geronimo spent most of his life in exile, after failing to stop Texans from stealing his ancestral homeland. He died on a military base in Oklahoma. His life was desperate, and almost classically tragic. One of the biggest energy companies in the world took its name from the nation that Geronimo was exiled from. They have an extensive presence in Australia and are a bit of an environmental nightmare. So little attention is paid to the context of songs that are supposed to be “fun.”
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Crystal Leww: Is this trollgaze? Actually, I don’t care. If it’s sincere, I don’t particularly like it either.
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Katherine St Asaph: Here’s the thing about “geronimo”: to the Australians that made this a hit, in the US even, it’s just another nonsense phrase, akin to “up and at ’em” or “cowabunga”; much like “lame,” most people probably don’t even know there’s an actual guy, let alone an offensive meaning. What the Aussies most certainly knew, however, is how Mumfordstompy this is.
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Patrick St. Michel: Impressive how quickly Mumford’s jamboree sound turned into a parody of itself.
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Brad Shoup: So in my mind — fair or no — the Jackson Jive are just humping themselves up a storm. But damn, there are all these juicy pop morphemes: two-chord riffs and counterpoint vocals and breakneck banjo and yes, the awful juxtaposition of those two phrases in the refrain, delivered so enticingly.
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Edward Okulicz: Not gonna hate on Sheppard for the clumsy use of Geronimo’s name; they’re just a bunch of dumb kids from Brisbane, and once I too was just a dumb kid from Brisbane yelling the name as I did a bomb dive into the pool or whatever. I knew the exclamation as something you said before you do something brave or impressive — “here goes nothing.” Here, unlike Aura Dione, it doesn’t seem intended to denote or connote anything at all, while some of the hooks are quite catchy, it’s bland and bloodless. “Bombs away” has never sounded so meek. Here goes nothing, indeed.
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