I’ve got a theory: It could be bunnies.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling

Okay, listen, here’s the thing. I’ve seen one and a half episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and firmly have no intention to see more. Maybe if I was in junior high, emo/goth, and a girl. I find Joss Whedon to be… ehhh… I’m going to go with ‘an interminably pretentious douchebag who writes irritating, ever-so-hep shit that has the nose-clenching scent of reaching beyond its grasp’ (just like me, and I hate me; disclaimer: I’ve never watched that space western show he did that so many people I know wet their pants over, so I may be missing out, fine, fuck off). The episode and a half I’ve seen did not include the one this soundtrack is from. So I haven’t the foggiest what the devil they’re all going on about, nor any abiding interest in it. Who are these goddamned people?

Now add to that the fact that I find showtunes for the most part embarrassing, at best eyebrow-raising ‘oh really now’ sort of songs. Teen comedy makes me break out in hives and I regard modern musical theater as a crime perpetrated against humanity by jilted theater majors who never got laid or had any friends in college.

…and yet, and yet, and yet, I still kinda, sorta enjoy this album. It has all the right influences (maybe a mite too much Elfman sans Boingo) and it wears them well. Sometimes it’s a little too cutesy-poo and self-indulgently quirky, but usually it lands on the side of genuinely funny. It could be bunnies.

Anyway, that I can even sit through this is a testament, although I could frankly do without the tacked-on music from other episodes (which is pretty decent stuff, but you know, whatever, really). Well then. Carry on.

64% => ***

~ by jshopa on June 12, 2008.