Idolator

As the Fourth of July approaches, radio stations around the country prepare to terrorize me by playing Don McLean's "American Pie", which is supposed to make me feel really psyched about the United States for reasons I can't quite identify. Whether in its truncated single form or its full eight-minutes-plus of bizarrely metaphored hippie nostalgia flory, "American Pie" is easily my least favorite song of all time. Which may be why I never considered ways it could be improved... like a synchronized light show! More »