I went to Ben Folds’s Myspace page and heard some pretty awful songs that were supposed to be on the new record. I later found out that he recorded nine joke versions of songs to leak on the internet intentionally.

“Hiroshima” apparently isn’t a joke song though, and I am still crossing my fingers that the album won’t be disappointing. Ben Folds hasn’t let me down before. I don’t know why I’m so skeptical now. The clips on the Rolling Stone article give a decent idea of how the record is. It seems pretty produced/electronic, so far. I guess we’ll just see.

I am the biggest Ben Folds fan I know. He has an album coming out at the end of September. The first song that I’ve heard off of it is called “Hiroshima.” I can see the catchiness, I can see the hook, but the song just seems boring to me, like I wouldn’t care to listen to it more than a few times.  Maybe I’ll change my mind about that, maybe not. I can see myself being disappointed if the whole album sounds like this one song. My experience with Ben Folds is to immediately love almost everything he does. I guess we’ll just see.