Pondering the Meaning of Life? Start with listening to “What Kind of Donut are You” by Margaret Hooligans
By Mr. P
“What Kind of Donut Are You?” Is one of those nonsensical humorous songs that harken back to the days of The Dead Milkmen, Beck, Butthole Surfers, Atom and His Package or They Might Be Giants all of which never quite fit into the strict paraments of the “punk” world per se but all of which had fans of punk that enjoy and continue to enjoy the nature of what they brought into what’s oft a far too serious genre of music.
The lead singer asks vital questions such as:
“Are you a Boston creme or do you have jelly inside”?
“Are you old-school like my grandpa with only sugar on ya?”
“Are you made by TastyKake or Entemanns’?”
More garage rock and grunge/punk than the previously mentioned bands, Margaret Hooligans “What Kind of Donut Are You” uses heavily distorted guitars with a dancy and hopping drum beat that has me bopping along waiting to hear if my favorite donut gets mentioned. It also has what I thought might be timables, but looking at their website, it might be a tea kettle?? I love the high pitched exaggerated backing vocals that respond to the main vocals by stating things like “I will not sprinkle sugar on my body”! Def Leppard fans they may not be.
Love the short but powerful leads, the moments where the guitars drop out just leaving the vocals, and the “rant” that the backing vocalist goes on during the song where he spouts nuggets like “sprinkles are the opiates of the masses” or using them is “like putting ketchup on your steak”
Despite my move away from donuts after a Pig Run years ago where I downed a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts in a matter of minutes in the middle of a 5K race with nothing more than a small dixie cup of water to wash away the sweetness that clogged my throat throughout the rest of the race, this song is forcing me to ponder reconsidering that experientially created aversion and once again partake of the donut. Of course, I now realize that I should no longer see the donut as a mere sugary pastry to be consumed; instead, I see it as an existential marker for who I am as a person and what it means to be alive in a universe wrapped in a mosaic of diverse donuts.
So if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential quandary full of loathing and self-doubt and wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence, just put on this song and determine “What Kind of Donut Are You”? And life will be sweet again.
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