I like it when a song has a meaningful or funny title, I also like it when there is a good story behind the music. Those two things undoubtedly apply to this rock ‘n’ roll tune. Highly prolific 90’s kid Brett Newski saw Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies live when he was 13. That changed his life – their frontman Steven Page became his first musical hero – and he even went to work at McDonald’s to pay for his first guitar. Fast forward, last year Newski uncovered old notebooks of song ideas from that period while still in high school, including early lyrical ideas for the “coming of age” tune I Should’ve Listened to Ferris Bueller, which is now the lead track to It’s Hard to be a Person, a book and soundtrack album about defeating anxiety, surviving the world and having more fun. To complete the story: while finishing the song, Newski reached out to Steven Page to see if he would guest-vocal on the track. No sooner said than done. See and hear the result here, with illustrations from the book in the video. Likeable on multiple levels!
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PS For younger readers unfamiliar with the name mentioned in the song title: the teen comedy film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) is a classic.
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