This song is a bit of a Van Halen tribute. I have to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of their actual songs, but they were a bunch of amazing musicians with a unique sound, and whose influence can’t be overstated.
American music from that era exudes independence and confidence in a way which comes across as very silly and inauthentic when a non-American tries to do it. So rather than trying to write about getting a car and hitting the highway in pursuit of freedom, this song is instead about a pub crawl of North Oxford on public transport.
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