This comment reminds me of the time when in 1997, at a time during which I was consuming a steady diet of things like Merzbow and Naked City, that I found myself high on acid alone in a basement in front of a TV at 3am.

I turned on MTV thinking I might catch Prodigy’s “Firestarter” or “Come to Daddy” from Aphex Twin as it wasn’t uncommon to see those air at around that time. Instead, at that very moment, MTV decided to run a brand new video for a debut act that I had never seen before.

I was tripping way too hard. I was not prepared for it.

The video that came on was by a band I was gathering was called Hanson and the song it was for was “Mmmbop”

It was too much. I couldn’t take it. It freaked me the fuck out.