It also sounds sorta like Styx. Nowadays, however, songwriters who voice such Paradise Theater-sized aspirations are an aberration. It's a gutsy, genuinely alternative move.
Bleu pulls it off in style.
Not in Bleu's world. This dark, desperate song bounces along with uptempo, shout-along fervor worthy of any beach blanket, summer mix tape. Ballsy is more like it. Vocal overdubs are piled high as an arena-sized stack of Marshalls. Twenty years ago, this kind of studio hocus-pocus was in vogue.