Charlottetown’s Little Cities are a going concern. Without having yet produced an EP, the band are about to conquer the east coast one single at a time in necessary. Their second and latest standalone video is for “Girl Next Door,” and it is absolutely bleeding all the fun and energy of pop punk.
The video hits the nail on the head. In true pop punk fashion, it is in fact about the “Girl Next Door.”
“That and our love for Elisha Cuthbert!” says Josh Pitre, Little Cities synth player and romantic comedy aficionado.
It’s the stereotypical and time-honoured tale of the Girl Next Door dating the guy who fits that venn diagram of “just not right for her”, “neglectful with a side of emotional abuse” and “really kind of a jerk anyway.”
“It just so happens that the cool neighbour is having a party and invites her to attend. At first she says no because she’s sure she wouldn’t get permission from her boyfriend to go,” explains Pitre in the play-by-play.
“Eventually in the video she decides enough is enough and ditches her guy at a restaurant to go have a night out with her girlfriends. They eventually make it to the party, and so does her boyfriend who promptly gets kicked out of the party a la Jazz/Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.”
The video is fast-paced and lighthearted, and ends, naturally, with the GND knocking boots with her cool respectable neighbour, who wakes up the next morning to find a note on the mirror that says ‘XOXO, The Girl Next Door.’ The good guys win. Roll credits.
“This one started off as almost a fully formed song on guitar by Mat,” says Pitre of the Little Cities songwriting processes.
“As with most of our tunes usually Mat or Mitch will have the bones of something. When we jammed it full band we got an idea for the structure and the lyrics and synth came last! In the studio, we gave Colin (Buchanan) full reign to do whatever flourishes he felt would add to the song. As such it has more synthesizer and an overall electro-pop feel than the previous single, while still holding true to our Pop Punk roots”
Little Cities are planning to put out an EP soon enough with the band heading back to the studio in June, but more immediately they plan to release some more new material before the summer