Viagra Boys are back with their most absurd work yet!

A review of Viagra Boys latest single, ‘Man Made of Meat’.

Would it surprise you that a band called Viagra Boys make some of the weirdest music on the planet? Probably not. Well luckily for us, this punky mess of humour and silliness have a new album, titled ‘viagr aboys’ which is making its way to our ears on April 25, with this comes their latest single Man Made of Meat.

The song is spectacular in every fashion. It rips away any expectation we may have for music and it presents you with a plate of flesh cut directly from the bizarre social norms we currently face. If you are familiar with the band then you understand that their entire manifesto generally revolves around poking fun at the world.

With both a roaring guitar riff and the rumble of a mighty baseline, Sebastian (lead singer) belts bold claims about the reality of pop culture and the way in which we engage with the digital world.

A bold and fun instrumental that makes you want to dance and explode into a million pieces of little dancing men, sets the scene for line after line of social norm blasphemy.

Within the first 30 seconds of this song, we witness moans, goblins, wheelchairs and a mid-line burp. Pop culture references throughout are ripped apart and made fun of in a non-chalant fashion which couldn’t be more fitting. There is even a (mildly insensitive) reference to Matthew Perry’s death which quickly claims that he drank hot dog flavoured water. 

Most people’s first reaction to these lyrics will be similar to mine. A belly laugh and a shock at their obscenity.  The chorus poetically chants frustrations at the bizarre requirements, expectations and reality of the world and compares it to the simplicity of human beings.

Potentially my favourite line ever is in this song. “I’m subscribed to your mom’s OnlyFans, I spent five bucks a month to get pictures of her flappy giblets.” 

The world has developed to be an incredibly strange mess and Viagra Boys have absolutely no shame in pointing this out. Without any direct statements of observations of the world, the band scrutinises and exposes the fact that pleasure, entertainment and our behaviour as a society is influenced and controlled by this strange ecosystem of social media and the internet.

“You’re on the internet looking at feet” is a funny line for a chorus but it continues this very profound and true narrative while being very blunt. 

The method of delivery of this philosophy is as brash as it should be, with the power of guitar music sending it into deep space. An unbelievably energetic and raucous combination of both guitars effortlessly creates the atmosphere needed to correctly communicate the intended ethos and message.

Energetic chaos comes at you from every angle when listening. The chorus is simple but absolutely phenomenal, it grabs your hips and holds your chest. The verse is three sumo wrestlers shaking hands, it comes at you with both prowess and power and allows for mayhem to ensue.

This song wonderfully continues the bands agenda of attacking mindless, peculiar and often toxic social behaviour while making you smile, dance and plan how to break away from any norm you’ve ever partaken in.

Many of us want to run away from the world that we live in, this single gives you a million and ten reasons why.

A phenomenal song, from a phenomenal band.

307 out of 333 or 9.2 out of 10.