With summer just around the corner, MEGASOUND, the new collaborative project featuring members of Bad Bad Hats and Party Nails, arrive with Supersize, a single from their self-titled debut album, out 7 August via Don Giovanni Records. The track comes with a video filmed at the Museum of Illusions in the Mall of America, a playful, psychedelic journey that perfectly captures the song’s bright, restless spirit.
Drawing inspiration from early 2000s rock and the pop world of Josie and the Pussycats, “Supersize” bursts open with bright, compressed, highly rhythmic electric guitars, capturing the drive of an idealised garage band somewhere between punk energy and radio-pop gloss. Those guitars, together with steady, straightforward drumming, set the scene for a chorus that is both memorable and danceable.
Elana Carroll, of Party Nails, moves between pop sweetness and a carefree attitude, while a slightly raspy, sarcastic edge gives her voice character and keeps the song from becoming too saccharine. There are echoes of Letters to Cleo’s “I Want You to Want Me” and The Go-Go’s “Head Over Heels”, along with hints of Fountains of Wayne’s precision-tooled power pop and that tradition of songs that seem light-hearted but stick because of their finely crafted melodies and choruses.
“Supersize” is about living without holding back: escaping, trying, taking risks. The line “Don’t waste it. Taste it.” captures that blend of impulse and desire, but it also suggests an almost consumerist relationship with experience, where everything has to be bigger, more intense and more immediate. That is the charm of “Supersize”: it celebrates excess while letting the irony behind all that shine come through.
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