My research is limited to "I heard it on the radio one time and they kind of discussed it but I was playing Pokemon at the time so my attention was understandably elsewhere", but I suspect that this is a song by a band accused frequently by their fans of 'selling out'. The lyrics are certainly consistent with a general frustration with that exclusivist hipster bullshit where if the band makes more than two figures / a few beers on the house per gig and release an album under a record label that is larger than "Some Guy In His Basement Records, Produced By: Basement Guy (Now Featuring Witty, Obscure T-Shirt)" they're mindless slaves of the capitalist scum overlord corporations etc. "Is there something wrong with these songs? / Maybe there's something wrong with the audience". Compared to what I know of their back catalogue (ie, what I looked at on YouTube one time, maybe four songs at most, I did not like them) this is also quite a poppy number compared to their regular thing, so there might be Delicious Sass in that as well.
They may also have just jammed some words into a really cool rollicking backbeat / repetitive guitar riff. Who can say. I really like the dude's voice, even though he sounds like he's gonna sound like some raspy eighty-year-old lung cancer patient by the time he's 30. (Note: he may already be 30, or older. I do not do research. I also hope he doesn't have lung cancer, because I kind of just made a joke about lung cancer.)
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