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Memoryy's Video "Feels Like the First Time" Makes You Wonder about High School Reunions

They're a bad idea though, aren't they?

Honestly I don't understand the point of 10 year high school reunions. Inevitably you'll only stay in touch with the school pals who are actually awesome and all the others will fall to the wayside. That's just how it should go, it's OK, moving on is important. This then means that high school reunions serve a few purposes and all of them are depressing.

1. You're wildly successful and attractive and lost all that baby fat you had puffing you out during sophomore year. You've returned to gloat. Your life is fabulous, everybody take it in. You want to feel superior but actually you leave feeling like a hollowed out pumpkin two weeks after Halloween. Your insides are blackening.

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2. You're doing OK, everything is pretty chill but you're kinda bored with the relationship you've been in for the past five years. You're down to rekindle with your high school sweetheart, Sally or Johnny or whoever. Surely the spark is still there? Cue, an affair that will ultimately be more soul-destroying than the knowledge that with every passing hour Adam Levine continues to achieve more popularity, fame, and money than you will ever know. It's amazing how the biggest douches always come up trumps.

3. You want to relive the glory days. You want to get tanked up. You want to forget you wear a polyester suit and that you don't even have four actual walls to stare at, but just a four flimsy cubicle partitions. You get too turned up and you end up puking under the table. SMH.

But maybe I'm just a cynic! A bummer! Brooklyn's Memoryy—that's Shaun Hettinger—is way more optimistic. Above is the premiere for "Feels Like the First Time." He returns to his high school with his oddball band—an old Deadhead acid casualty on guitar and a bored, bespectacled hipster on keys. Hettinger is AMPED. He's wearing a bow tie, he's grooving like a wedding singer, he's working the white man's overbite, he's extremely interested in his high school crush, who once danced with him at prom.

BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW? Perhaps this song (and his dancefloor skills) will help seduce her. It's unabashedly pop and I can totally imagine Napoleon Dynamite throwing some sweet, sweet moves to this little number, which is a very good thing.

Memoryy Tour Dates
10/11: Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory (CBGB Festival) w/ The Echo Friendly
10/22: Brooklyn, NY @ Coco 66 (Official CMJ Showcase)

Memoryy's Young Oblivion EP drops 9/30 via Wondering Sound.