i can feel my monkees hyperfixation starting to wear off but before it fully goes i need to say no current boy band can claim to be the best until they also get put on an fbi watchlist for "spreading left wing ideology" and make a psychedelic art film about the evils of capitalism and the military industrial complex
Fool That I Was for thinking my obsession was anywhere close to ending when i posted this.
i hadn't yet learned about them basically doing everything short of fistfighting their managers to be allowed to... *checks notes*... play their own instruments and write their own songs.
i hadn't yet learned that davy was one of the actors to play the artful dodger in the original run of oliver! and got a tony award nomination for it.
i hadn't yet learned that despite davy being a kid who worked in theater, he'd somehow have less theater kid energy than micky every time they were onscreen together (probably because micky, too, was a child actor).
i hadn't yet learned about mike accidentally inventing mtv. (also that he wrote different drum by linda ronstadt???)
i hadn't yet learned that peter was an autistic bisexual socialist with an orgy mansion who could effortlessly play classical piano like it was chopsticks.
i hadn't yet learned about The Meat Locker.

















