UPDATED!!! BEND IT LIKE TOWNSEND
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 10:00am by Axl RosenbergUPDATE: HERE’S A QUOTE FROM DEVIN HIMSELF:
Oh ok…here it is. ‘Bend It Like Bender’
(You! …in the Nasum shirt! …look away!!!)
I know…I know…it’s a pretty bippy-boppy-Euro-type dance track, but you know? guilty as charged when it comes to loving that stuff. I remember hearing The Vengaboys ‘We Like To Party’ back when it came out and it nearly brought me to tears (I was cutting onions at the time…) something about EASY, FUN music that takes very little effort to enjoy…or detest as the case may well end up being .
So yeah, I wrote a song like that. ppppttthhhhhhhhhpppppppphhhhhhhh…..
I’m working on album three of the DTP quartet right now, Deconstruction. And it’s such brained out, complicated nonsense, that while I was writing it (all 4 albums were written during the same period) I remember just finishing the track ‘Traestorz’ (Deconstruction) and my brain was reeling. Super complicated metal madness, and I was like, ‘ENOUGH!!!’ and threw my lube down in revulsion and laid into Bender with a ‘phat ass beat’ y’all.
‘We are one and we have found they only wanted you around
To hold it down, so hold your ground,
We won’t be here forever!
We are young and we have fun and all we’ve found in being around is ‘All and all’ and ‘Holy cows’ While things keep getting heavy! Hang on to your man and Hang on to your woman and HANG ON!!!’Whats it about? Ah, indeed young knave, gather ye round and I shall dispense the benevolent meaning of this cosmic connundrum upon thee:
ready..?
It’s a play on the title ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ and the robot from Futurama named ‘Bender’, because he’s into partying, and the records called ‘Addicted’. Yup. Oh…and ‘Bender’ and ‘Bekham’ both start with the letter ‘B’.
Anneke VanGeirbergen ladies and Germs…Anneke VanGeirbergen. Did I mention I love Abba as well? Well I do. AND we’re still metal.
Again, all 4 records were written together…which was good for me, because when I would get all antsy with Ki, I would unload with Deconstruction, then get offended by my own pretension and rock some good vibes with Addicted, then when I would feel like it was ALL stupid, I’d write for Ghost, and make some dead country voices.
So yeah, enjoy. Or don’t. I do.
Lastly, There’s a time and a place for fat, shirtless men with head tattoos to bump into each other and yell, and a time and a place for women to move like the beautiful creatures they are.
…just sayin’
dev.
SECOND UPDATE: I THINK THAT’S THE FIRST TIME DEVIN HAS ANNOUNCED GHOST AS THE TITLE OF THE FOURTH TDTP ALBUM. HOO-RAY!
The first time I heard “Bend It Like Bender” from The Devin Townsend Project’s Addicted, I honestly didn’t get the reference. I mean, I understood the play on the phrase “Bend It Like Beckham,” but I had no idea who “Bender” was. Vince and I grew up with a kid named “Bender,” but I was fairly certain that a) Devin Townsend does not know our Bender, and b) our Bender never bent anything of significance.
So I Googled the phrase Bender, and learned that the robot character from Matt Groening’s Futurama is named Bender Bending Rodríguez:
I never really got into Futurama, but if Devin Townsend likes it, I have to assume I’ve been missing out on something awesome.
ANYWAY, this is all me taking way too long to tell you that “Bend It Like Bender” is now streaming on Townsend’s MySpace page. But be careful before you listen to it – it’s so catchy you may only be able to get it out of your head if you blow your brains out.
Addicted comes out November 17 on InsideOutMusic. MetalSucks is still hosting an exclusive stream of the track “Universe in a Ball,” which you should definitely check out.
-AR
“I never really got into Futurama, but if Devin Townsend likes it, I have to assume I’ve been missing out on something awesome.”
what the fuck is wrong with you?
Yes. This. Good lord, man…
It’s better than (that’s right, I said it) The Simpsons.
Also (to be viewed while listening to song):
http://media.ign.com/boards/images/icons3/futurama_benderDancing.gif
+1
people who run this site hate good tv (apart from arrested development); ‘how i met your mother’ and now ‘futurama’?
You guys need to watch more cartoons and the cartoons are even better when your HIGH. Try out Adult Swim on a Sunday night.
Great song. Great show.
All hail Hypnotoad !
Man, I’m really on the fence about this new stuff, and I love Townsend’s earlier work. I guess I need to just hear the new album all the way through, from beginning to end, to see how it all blends together.
Anything referencing Bender is bound to be pretty good
anything but this song.
You’ve been missing out on something awesome.
Hey what kinda party is this? There’s no booze and only one hooker.
That chorus is criminally catchy
Wow, first you keep Suarez, and then you don’t know who Bender is
“In which we just fucked up the entire week”
Agreed. Not knowing bender is unacceptable. Futurama kicks so much ass
Word, B-dizzle keepin it real.
That song sounds like modern rock radio ca. 1990.
Futurama > The Simpsons
SYL > Devin Townshend solo
spelling Townsend correctly > spelling it incorrectly in a post where it’s stated correctly 100 times.
move out of your mom’s house, get a girlfriend, and get a life. you seriously have nothing better to do than to check the spelling posted on a message board? your existence must be very boring. bitch.
Instead of a Google search, you could just get it from the man himself: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=48634966
Is it just me, or does Devy with his head shaved look an awful lot like Timothy Olyphant from that Hitman movie?
Also, good song.
Lmfao
haha now that you mention it, i totally see it.
Jesus….this song is awful. But Bender is one of the best characters on Futurama. I love alcoholic robots.
Horrible song… worst stuff he’s ever done
Congratulations on joining the human race.
So, does this mean album #4 is called “Ghost”?
Yeah, I pointed that out this morning, but no one took notice. I’m kinda sad about it.
Not metal.
Queer shit for dick eaters!
damn that song sucked in my opinion.
i still listen to ki, great album
I can dig it. This song inspired me to go watch a bunch of clips from the Gathering’s “A Noise Severe” DVD on YouTube. I love her.
I’m loving the new song like I love Bender.
Gtfo, Axl. Futurama is fucking epic.
What I find most hilarious are the people who think it sucks, because it’s not metal.
Maybe you should read, and think again, about the last thing Devin says (if not the whole article). There’s nothing wrong with “fluff” music that’s catchy and easy, or a good dance-y beat.
I don’t hate it because it’s not metal. I hate it because it sounds awful. Good talent thrown together in the gayest way.
Vengaboys? i thought there is a law against ever mentioning that cursed name. No matter how much metal credit you have built up over the years/decades, you put your reputation on the line big time when you say the V word….
I was hoping ‘Bender’ was a BREAKFAST CLUB reference. Infinitely cooler than FUTURAMA.
Oh well, the song is killer. And if that makes me a dick eater than so be it. At least I’m a dick eater with great taste in music.
Your charges are two counts of obvious homosexuality.
This song is why devin should have stopped writing music a while ago
I just noticed all the titles of Addicted end with a ! exclaimation mark !
That song was not my bottle of booze… but Futurama is excellent.
Futurama fucking rules. How could anyone not know about it? It’s been one of the best cartoons of the past ten years…
Msalonen , I dont think the song sucked cause its not metal, I just think it sucked.
Both Futurama and the new song are amazing.
Buying this album because Anneke’s on it.
BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS!!!
I cried at the end of one episode of Futurama where Fry’s dog waited for him to come back to the Spaghetti Shop and he never came. But the dog just waited there for years……….*sheds tear*
And you call ME gay…
I already like this album better than ‘Ki’.
Having heard all of the album and this song finally in the context of the album I can honestly say you’re all retarded.