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New Counting Crows Single Deeper Than It Seems
06/10/2002 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Billy Altman
(6/10/02, 5 p.m. ET) - The Counting Crows are enjoying substantial airplay with "American Girls," the first single from the San Francisco Bay Area group's forthcoming album, Hard Candy (due out July 9). The song is an upbeat, boppy kind of track, marked by backing vocals from Sheryl Crow.
Crows frontman Adam Duritz tells LAUNCH that the lyrics are darker than might be evident from just a cursory listen to the tune: "It's kind of a nasty song. It's taking a nasty look at the guy taking the girl for granted, and getting what he deserves in the end--which is left, dumped. It fits, in a way, because that's his tone--that's how he acts, you know? It's sort of breezy, and it's a big joke to him, until it's not. At the end, it's not a joke. You know, 'You made me cry, you made me cry,' you know, it's, like, 'It's not funny anymore,' at that point."
The group begins a weeklong stint opening for the Who on June 29 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, California.
-- Gary Graff, Detroit
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