Again and Again and Again Forever a Lake Effect Kid

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This year, the Midwest had a doozy of a wintertime. Throughout October and November, we were lulled to a false sense of security through mild temperatures and a lot of rain, with the occasional quick snow. It seemed to be all over by Dec, and even into early Jan. But February began the winter of our discontent.

The great Polar Vortex of 2022 shut downwardly West Michigan for an entire week, and longer in some places. I had my first snow day(s) from work every bit an developed. Temperatures dipped well below zero, so much so that there's a video on my Instagram somewhere of me throwing hot water into the air to see if it would freeze. That calendar week, I drove through a blizzard to a Panic! at the Disco concert that wasnot cancelled(and thank goodness it wasn't, because it was awesome.)

We in the Midwest are pretty used to that kind of atmospheric condition. Maybe not to that extreme, but cold winters come with the territory up here. Most of us are too proud to mutter, fifty-fifty though by March most of us crawl down the street bleary-eyed, searching for the sun. Thankfully, our cute, temperate summers make up for it. All of us will withal tell you lot that Midwest is best.

All of us deport the markings of our upbringing – culturally, geographically, biologically. A Texan can tell a Michigander from a mile away, in the aforementioned way that a New Yorker might stick out like a sore thumb in California. There's a different vibe to where people come from, and if yous movement across the land or across the state, you take that vibe with you lot.

I grew upward in the mid-sized Midwest town of G Rapids, Michigan, and I still live here. Information technology'due south a adequately "typical" Midwest big-small town – not as big as Chicago or Detroit, but enough to get by. Every other town I go to has a different vibe. Mayhap some of them are a little more hip, or touristy, or granola. The only identify I really feel "right" is in my hometown.

And I always find myself right back hither.

Solar day eleven: Lake Effect Kid – Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Male child feels the same way near Chicago. Michigan is not the but country susceptible to lake outcome weather – northern Illinois likewise gets its share of polar vortexes. That weather condition pattern is the inspiration for the title of this song, off of their 2022 EP of the same proper noun. Flim-flam's hometown has had a huge impact on their identity every bit a band, just equally Lake Michigan affects Chicago's conditions, and how all of us are in plough influenced past where we grew upward.

Sometimes when I'm in sky
I go forgetful of the globe, woah
Until I hear you bickering similar bugs and birds
The oestrus is off, gate's open up, the shade is down

This vocal is very much focused on the roots of FOB equally a band. They joined together in Chicago, as already discussed, so many lyrics in the song are an homage to their home roots. It's as well a nod to 1 of their before albums,Folie a Deux, which has a lot of songs about drugs. They were a grunge-punk boy band after all. Who'due south surprised? The vocal opens with Patrick Stump's heaven-loftier vocals sounding strained by the bickering of showbiz (hence turning to drugs to get high or be "in Heaven.")

I got a pocket total of deadliness
Opium den mother forget my caput
At the dead-end chosen Unsteadiness
Boxed blondes have less fun

I didnotrealize how much this song was virtually drugs until I started writing this like a half hour ago. But, it makes sense. Showbiz and drugs seem to go hand-in-manus, and I remember a lot of information technology has to practice with feeling misplaced. The last line of the refrain is "Boxed blondes accept less fun," sung in a taunting falsetto. Stamp (and lyricist Pete Wentz) is referring to people (specifically women) who dye their hair blonde, but are not naturally blonde. Eventually information technology starts to evidence in theirrootsthat they're not blonde. Just similar how hometown kids from Chicago aren't always going to fit into the shiny sheen of Hollywood.

Boomerang my caput
Dorsum to the city I grew upwards in
Once again and again
Forever a Lake Effect Kid

And hither'south the anthemic chorus which is the slice de resistance of the song. Sometimes the only thing you need to do is get dwelling house. Like a boomerang, we may go far, only we always stop up back where we belong.

Oh, I got the skyline in my veins
Forget your dark
Summertime love on a gurney with a squeaky bicycle
And joke us, joke us
'Til Lakeshore Bulldoze comes back into focus
I just wanna come up back to life
Spark my crazy head to go along you warm at nighttime

In the second poesy, Wentz begins to converge the two ideas of dwelling and drug utilise into ane – comparing dwelling (Chicago) to a drug in and of itself. A place where y'all go to feel improve, or feel good, or get recharged. Having the "skyline in my veins" is indicative of shooting up, so to speak. The verse gets drastic for something,annihilationto make them feel alive again after the madness of the industry.

I e'er like coming habitation, no matter how crazy life gets. Whether I'k going across the state, across the country, or beyond the earth, I know I belong back in my Midwest habitation. You might say the apple tree hasn't fallen far from the tree.

Or maybe, the boomerang just came back.

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