3OH!3 Brings The Ridiculousness, and The Fun With "Starstrukk"

 3OH!3 turned the pop landscape on its ear this past late spring with their stupid, highly inappropriate, and brilliant single "Don't Trust Me" (no one will look at Hellen Keller the same way again).


After the surprising success of that song, the boys are back with second single "Starstrukk", a fizzy electro romp about casual hook-ups. The boys switch things up from "Don't Trust Me"; the most danceable parts of this song are the verses, with the best use of whistles since Juelz Santana. The lyrics are as mindless as ever here, singing about Daisy Dukes and cup sizes (and I'm not talking the ones you drink Coke out of either). The song's Hellen Keller line "push it baby, push it baby, out of control, I got my gun cocked tight, and I'm ready to blow" is kind of juvenile (even for them).

Things get really interesting in the chorus, though. Here, amidst edged-out synth lines, the boys admit their promiscuity and reveal they don't know the meaning of the word love. They ponder the possibility of messing around without "leaving their fingerprints out", a thought rather poignant for a culture obsessed with a "love 'em and leave 'em" mentality.

While not as instant as its predecessor, "Starstrukk" proves to be the more conscious of the two, and will easily jump start any dying college party. With songs like these, its not hard to see why 3OH!3 are the princes of punk pop.

Rating: 7.5/10