Optimuscrime likes music. We love it. We like to share our music, with each other, and occasionally with our readers. We also, like so many other pretentious nerds, appreciate a good musical debate. Lukas and I in particular have been developing a strong and firey repartee over the course of our friendship, now in its tenth year.

We'll argue over just about anything. Popsicles - fused or seperated? Peanut butter on bagels - open or closed-faced? White jeans - yes or no? And of course, music comes up more than occasionally. This brings us to the current fiasco. A single track, emailed from one Optimuscrime editor to another, (and may I say that I originally thought it had been sent as a joke.. that's how bad this song is.) unwittingly resulted in a torrent of emails back and forth.

The track in question can be obtained for scrutiny here.

The emails:

From Me:
dude,
that song is a fucking monstrocity!
the makers should be shot.
thanks for sending.
love paul.

From Luke:
If by monstrocity you mean rockstravaganza, you're entirely right.
Don't front, you know its awesome.

From Me:
if by rockstravaganza, you mean a musical travesty, then i'm with you.
you shock me. i'm shocked.

From Lukas:
If by musical travesty you mean genre-eclipsing masterwork, I agree entirely.

From Me:
if by genre-eclipsing masterwork, you mean audial crucifixtion, then i
think we're on the same page.
good buddy

From Lukas:
Sure, sure. I totally agree. If what you meant by 'audial crucifixtion' was 'apocalypse of sheer awesomeness'.
Luke
Ps this is boring

From Me:
right. right.
now, when you say 'apocalypse of sheer awesomeness', i can only assume
that you mean a 'calculated and unholy musical infanticide'
P-Dizzle.
PS: This is the most exciting thing I've done all day.

From Lukas:
Did you say 'calculated and unholy musical infanticide'? Gosh, because I heard 'the second coming of christ distilled into a lil jon song'.
Luke
Ps I feel sorry for you, homie

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Readers: I urge you to weigh in. Musical travesty, or genre-eclipsing masterwork? And before you answer, let me impress upon you one crucial thought:

You DO NOT FUCK WITH THE CURE!!! Got it?