Debbie Harry and a Bunch of Punk Rock Posers

I don't spend a lot of time posting stuff that fails to entertain, but this... this approaches a realm of badness that it's hard to resist.

We can argue whether or not kids assuming classic punk poses and statements of people 15 to 30 years older would ever be funny, but when a 7-year-old smears peanut butter on his stomach and says "I wanna be your dog," I think we can all agree that it's moved beyond funny into, well, sad. (You, my little one, are no Iggy.)

I'm gonna go listen to my Dan Zanes duet with Deborah Harry on "Waltzing Matilda" and try to forget this now...

(Via Stereogum.)

Comments

[Katy L]

Icky icky icky.

[Stefan]

Yeah, I agree.

[deb in sf]

wow. sad.

[Tito]

I just flashed back to high school where a kid in my class, knowing my love of punk/new wave music,commented that he also like it by referencing Blondie and the Police. My reaction was the same feeling I got from watching this clip.

[Stefan]

Y'know... explaining to kids what punk really was would actually be cool. Explaining to kids what the French New Wave was in cinema would actually be cool.

To do it in ways that kids would understand would be cool. But all they wanted to do was make a joke.

[debinsf]

exactly.

[kelli ann]

oh, man. oh, man, oh, man. can say nothing more...