SOTD #84 // Myles Cooper: 'Gonna Find Boyfriends Today'

This track is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. And judging by the lyrics in Myles Cooper’s ode to the life a young, free and single kid in San Francisco, she probably won’t be asked to either.

I remember the first time I heard this track, I just kind of didn’t get it. It sounded a bit thin, a bit cheap. Clearly I’d just been listening to a lot of Radiohead that day or something equally dull and serious because hell, by the third time I’d pressed play this song had me doing nothing but grinning.

And the video! It’s like some kind of acid trip into the world of a man obsessed with the kitsch, amusing, light side of every inch of life. Floating hearts, walking peanuts, talking strawberries. It’s basically what The Magic Roundabout would have looked like if it’d had been made by today’s stoner geniuses.

And the song itself; it’s like a virus. It slowly seeps into your blood, it’s tinny keyboard riff locking into your central nervous system getting stronger and stronger by the hour until your mind can fight it no longer. “Coz today, we’re gonna find boyfriends today, today.” It starts pouring out your mouth, into the ears of those around, infecting them with it’s light Casio charisma and mock croon.

Unless Dustin Hoffman gets his shit together soon this bad boy’s going pandemic, and I can’t wait to see the results.

Myles Cooper: ‘Gonna Find Boyfriends Today’

“Gonna Find Boyfriends Today” is out now via Transparent. Limited to 300 7” only. UK/EU customers can order from Pure Groove. For US customers, it’ll be available over at Leftist Nautical Antiques very soon.