High School Never Ends
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| Single by Bowling for Soup | ||||
| from the album The Great Burrito Extortion Case | ||||
| Released | September 19, 2006 | |||
| Format | Digital download, CD single | |||
| Recorded | May 15 - June 14, 2006 Ruby Red Productions Atlanta, Georgia Pulse Recording Silverlake, California Rosewater Studios Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Genre | Pop punk | |||
| Length | 3.28 | |||
| Label | Jive, Zomba | |||
| Writer(s) | Jaret Reddick, Adam Schlesinger | |||
| Producer(s) | Russ-T. Cobb, Jaret Reddick, Adam Schlesinger | |||
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"High School Never Ends" is a song by American rock band Bowling for Soup. The song was the first single from the group's ninth album, The Great Burrito Extortion Case, and was released on September 19, 2006. The song deals with the frustration of graduating from high school and seeing that modern popular culture is very similar to the obnoxiously superficial and materialistic culture in high school.
The tune had a prominent outside songwriter, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Tinted Windows, working with the band.
The song contains many references to the pop culture of the time. Specific celebrities mentioned include Mary-Kate Olsen (specifically, her alleged eating disorder - How did Mary Kate lose all that weight?), Jessica Simpson (you'll never guess what Jessica did), Bill Gates (Bill Gates, captain of the chess team), Reese Witherspoon (Reese Witherspoon, she's the prom queen), Jack Black (Jack Black, the ), Brad Pitt (Brad Pitt, the quarterback) and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (Katie had a baby so I guess Tom's straight, also a reference to his litigation against journalists/paparazzi who questioned his sexuality). The song satirizes many aspects of today's society and its scrutiny of celebrity lives.
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