Blue October is the worst band ever.

Blue October was on Conan last night.* I was flipping channels and didn't catch the part where Conan announces the group name, so at first I didn't know who it was. Also, I'd never heard the song or seen the band before. About 15 seconds in, I thought, "wow, this band is really awful." Then I realized the awfulness had a familiar quality to it. Lyrics that sound as if they'd been written by an emo 15-year-old who believes "nobody understands him" because he is "wise" and "poetic" and an "old soul"? A chorus that uses a progression of maybe three notes (repeat 4x)? Use of the harmonic fifth by the background vocalist? Whiny, nasal delivery by lead singer, complete with poseur-riffic head twitching (because he's feeling. the. MUSIC.)?

Sure enough, it was them. I don't know why I felt vindicated, but I did.

*I know I said in a previous post that I don't have time to watch Conan anymore, but impending failure and doom will make you do crazy things like watch TV when you ought to be studying instead.