Regional Community Theater
| Regional Community Theater | |
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| Studio album by LadybiRdS | |
| Released | 2007 |
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| Length | 36:33 |
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| Producer | Tyler Pursel |
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| Source | Rating |
| AbsolutePunk | 85% |
| AllMusic |   |
| The Fader | Mixed |
| PopMatters | 6/10 |
Regional Community Theater is the debut album by the American group LadybiRdS, released in 2007 on Creep Records.
After the breakup of Ley Royal Scam in 2006, Tyler Pursel returned to working with Gym Class Heroes and writing dance-pop music on the side, while Teeter Sperber had relocated to Oregon. When composing, Pursel originally intended for many vocalists to be featured on the album, however, contacting his former band-mate Sperber to sing one of the tracks ultimately led Pursel to ask Sperber to sing the entirety of Regional Community Theater. Most of the album was arranged while Pursel and Sperber were in different regions of the United States, but by January 2007, they both joined at a Creep Records basement studio in Westchester, Pennsylvania. Here they put the final touches on Regional Community Theater. Tyler Pursel is credited as producer.
While in post-production, Sperber was singing "How can we be the best, yet be failing all the time?"–a lyric from the title-track, which elicited uproarious laughter from Pursel. In a Billboard interview, she explains "I sang the word "best," like a total, unabashed thespian spazz, arms raised to the sky, channeling my very best Bernadette Peters.. ..once we composed ourselves I said, "Geez Ty, I am so sorry for getting all Regional Community Theater on your ass" to which he said "It's okay, Teet, as long as that can be the title of our record."
The album was released on 18 September 2007, on Creep Records, both digitally and on compact disc. Regional Community Theater was re-released by Mint 400 Records digitally on 5 July 2011.
Regional Community Theater is an eleven track album of dance-pop, described by Corey Apar of Spin as a "Nintendo version of Candyland, where eight-bit blurps, shiny werps and ticks, and apple-colored synth beats entertain the whole way to Candy Castle." Lyrically, the album focuses on relationships, from friendship to romance. Several prominent lead vocalists lend their voices for Regional Community Theater; The Get Up Kids' Matt Pryor sings on "Cooper, Thanks for the Birds," and Max Bemis of Say Anything sings on "Maxim and the Headphone Life." Additionally, Danger O's' Justin Johnson and Fairmont's Neil Sabatino appear on the album.
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