Imagine ur the mayor of belleville new jersey and there is this band that comes from new jersey and maybe u don't quite get them or like are kinda familiar with them but only on a surface level. But theyre super popular and their hometown is belleville so like obviously you wanna reward them for being so successful right, so you decide to give them the key to the city when the come home to play a show in new jersey on their new tour. So like you go to this show and then theyre all dressed up and roleplaying doing this like european fascist dictatorship thing and youre watching the lead singer do all this crazy shit and then theyre sat there eating fucking spaghetti while performing and you wonder if youve made the right decision but like you decide to give them all the key anyway bc ur already there and its like too late to back out now or whatever and then when youre doing the handover thing the same lead singer, without breaking character, all while maintaining a super bad european accent is like. here take some wheat and fish from this place i made up. Like youre just standing there in this fever dream of a key ceremony, bewildered and confused and holding a giant fish. Like. ????
