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 TITLE: My Future Twentieth High School Reunion
BY: Vile Hour (N. Fischer and C. Drake)
WRITTEN BY: N. Fischer
GENRE: Anti-folk, indie folk, baroque pop, jazz, indie pop
LABEL: Chaos Records"I started writing this song because I heard the word 'eisteddfod' and I wanted to write a song with that in it," Nichole said about this song, titled My Future Twentieth High School Reunion.
"No matter how famous I get, I fully expect to show up at my twenieth high school reunion being the least sucessful person there," Nichole said once when questioned about it. "I mean, of course I'll go, but I know that probably only half of the people there will know about my music career, and only half of that half of people will have actually listened to me... And then maybe one or two people out of that group will have enjoyed my music." Both Nichole Fischer (at the time Nichole Shade) and Castor Drake attended Osborn Collegiate Academy of Mathematics, Science and Technology - a high school targeted for young men and women who have large academic aspirations in life. "I never really got a real high school experience. At Osborn, you were cool if you made straight A's and were president of the chess team. People like me? We were the freaks," She said later. "Both my parents were scientists. Both of their fathers were scientists. And me? I'm the piano player. It's a weird world to live in."
This Vile Hour song is Nichole Fischer's prediction of what she will witness when she gets to her twentieth high school reunion. The scene she paints in her music of people who are barely getting by, but trying to seem like they're doing better than what they really are is exaclty what America is made of. She talks first about her former classmate who became a model, which may seem like a completely glamorous job, but is not all it's cracked up to be. The former classmate is now "living on disorders, cigarettes, and lettuce" and living in an apartment with her friend, Cindy. Not so glamorous. The former school captain, she predicts, will not even show up to the reunion, but there will be, of course, people gossiping about him. The former school captain will be seen in food lines, asking for charity, and still be in love with a woman who broke up with his seven years beforehand. And, of course, everybody will be having spoiled children that everybody else will hate, but would never tell the parents that. Nichole finishes the scene with her making out with somebody else's boyfriend, claiming that she's "learned fuck all since high school," and that "... we can never have it all / But sure, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure / We're all pretending." The point of this song? To show that, even outside of high school, people are still trying to figure out who they are and what they're doing with their lives.
The song has a very happy tempo to it as Nichole's voice jumps around with a childlike happiness, like she's taking joy in seeing how horrible everybody's lives have turned out. You can tell from Nichole's voice that she is taking some sort of sick joy in seeing how phony everybody's happiness is, making her feel like she's not the only one that has to pretend like she's just fine when she's (emotionally wise) barely getting by. The song both gives hope for the future, but also lets the listener know that if they don't feel like they're where they should be in this point in their life, everybody else feels that way, too, and not to worry about it.Well, you know
You can never have it all
No, you can never have it all
But who wants that kind of weight now?
And I hear
She's a model now, my friend
She's a model now, my friend
Living on disorders, cigarettes, and lettuce
In the apartment she shares
With Cindy, her friend
With Cindy, her friend
And all the songs she knows now are catcalls
And you know she can never have it all
No, she can never have it all
She's so far away
From that eisteddfod
And Joe says he saw the captain in the dole line
School captain in the dole line
And he swears he's a broken man
Still missing his ex-girlfriend
Still loving his ex-girlfriend
It's been seven years
But he thinks there's still a chance
And you know he can never have it all
No, he can never have it all
He's so far away
From that regatta
And she listens
To the weather now, my friend
To the weather now, my friend
Got to worry about the children's sweaters
In the playground with their friends
And the children of her friends
Who she thinks are spoilt brats
But who's telling Sarah?
And she knows they can never have it all
No, they can never have it all
They're so far away
From the breadline
Now I'm kissing Tom's new lover at the bar
Yes, my new lover at the bar
Guess I've learned fuck all since high school
Oh, yes, I've learned fuck all since high school
And you know we can never have it all
No, we can never have it all
But sure, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure
We're all pretending
SOUNDS LIKE:
Regina Spektor - Sailor Song
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