L.A. Band The Tooners’ new single, “Forgiving You“, may be a backlash of the #MeToo Movement in that it’s a song about the joys of make-up sex.
Watch The Tooners' Forgiving You video HERE.
Written and co-directed by Ben Warner
Written and co-directed by Ben Warner
Influenced by the tongue-in-cheek rock of The Mothers Of Invention,
Alice Cooper and the risqué lyrics of 80s New Wave bands such as The
Knack, The Tooners’ songs aren’t afraid to explore some dark themes.
Included on their forthcoming fifth full-length CD are songs written for
the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die, (recently released as a
single) and a song written as the theme for a television series about a
hunter of Cryptozoological creatures in the Old West called Strange, CA.
Also released on Valentine’s day, 2020, The Tooners’ latest single “Forgiving You”
sounds upbeat and catchy but beneath the surface lurks the dark side of
passion. Possessiveness and sexual control are at the heart of the
power pop hit about a man who “forgives” his lover for real or imagined
transgressions mainly in order to initiate “make-up sex.”
One way to re-kindle passion in a relationship is to have that
relationship threatened. “I can’t miss you if you don’t go away” is an
old joke that is only half kidding. Another old saying, “You don’t know
what you’ve got till it’s gone” is a warning that regret often follows a
breakup caused merely by romantic apathy and that the emotions that
loss stirs burns hotter than the original flame of love. Those with a
tiny bit of imagination may prevent real pain by simply taking a few
moments to ponder what life would be like if their relationship did come
to a close. How would you feel, jokes aside and after whatever feeling
of exhilaration newfound “freedom” may invoke, if you found yourself
suddenly alone? Sure, this fear of the unknown is often blamed for
keeping people in abusive relationships that should have ended long
before the hope that the significant other will eventually change
(improve, cease and desist, etc.) but in the case of an otherwise stable
and loving relationship that has perhaps just grown a bit stale over
time, riding out a rough patch may not only be the smart move but also
the easiest. Many couples will tell you that their arguments are less
actual disagreements than rituals actually meant to raise their
emotional levels to the point where a sexual fire can be ignited.
However, these days it seems as if a little imagination can create
monsters that can find materialization into our physical reality. A
woman may seek to fully experience her own femininity by allowing a man
to sexually dominate her in an appropriate setting, thus more fully
appreciating the “weaker” sex aspect of her sexuality, but that decision
needs to be hers, alone. Surrender, in this case, is not a weakness but
a strength. Unfortunately, men are often incapable of picking up on the
subtleties of sexual communication and that can sometimes lead to the
headlines about Harvey Weinstein and Jeffery Epstein (and many others)
that are making news today
“Forgiving You” is the latest single from The Tooners,
the band that brought you “The Babysitter”, “Womanizer” and “Got Off
You.” from their last CD, Underground Comix. They may or may not be
symptomatic of the toxic masculinity running rampant in today’s society
but there sure seems to be an audience out there for them.
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