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Avoiding

by David M Willis on October 3, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Bring Me to Life Drawing
└ Tags: danny, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 3, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    How about “I Got Sunshine in a Bag”?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 3, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

      Gorillaz frigging rules. End of message.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      October 3, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      No one’s too cool to not know the title of a Gorrillaz song.

      • AntJ
        AntJ
        October 3, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

        seriously though do they have a thing against naming their songs after any of the lyrics?

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          October 3, 2022 at 12:27 am | #

          “Dare” is named after the lyrics…as a joke.

          Shaun Ryder, the guest on that track, has a pretty thick Manchester accent. In the booth he was asking to have the levels on his headphones adjusted and said “It’s coming up, it’s coming up…it’s there!”. But it sounded like “It’s Dare!”

          So they put him mispronouncing There in the song.

          • Someguy
            Someguy
            October 3, 2022 at 12:58 am | #

            That’s my favorite Gorrilaz song, so that’s funny as hell

          • Chris (the other one)
            Chris (the other one)
            October 3, 2022 at 5:49 am | #

            @Doctor_Who … that is …. that is awesome. And now it’s something I never knew but can’t unhear. You can even hear Ryder’s saying there and yet, it sounds like dare every time. Didn’t know that, and thank you.

        • Paradox
          Paradox
          October 3, 2022 at 10:48 am | #

          “Feel Good Inc” is kind of named after the lyrics

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      October 3, 2022 at 12:44 am | #

      “Dirty Harry” , of course.

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      October 3, 2022 at 1:00 am | #

      It’s getting so popular culture and I aren’t even in the same universe, anymore. I used to at least know the names of the popular groups. Now I haven’t heard of any of them.

      • Leadsynth
        Leadsynth
        October 3, 2022 at 10:50 am | #

        It requires serious effort!

        I had a wild realization today. My grandma, who was born in 1925, is a massive Dolly Parton fan. Dolly’s debut album dropped in 1967. That means my grandma was actively seeking out new music when she was 42 and older. And back then, you had to like, go to a record store! And my grandma was in rural Iowa! She must have made a hardcore effort to stay up on new stuff, and that’s dope.

        • Felian
          Felian
          October 3, 2022 at 4:07 pm | #

          That sounds amazing! GO Grandma!
          I hope we’ll all grow up more like her, because we all need to stop the narrative that life is over when you’re middle aged. it’s called middle aged for a reason. Go pursue that second half of your life! Learn things! Change your mind about things! Listen to young people and the things they come up with! Just don’t get set in your ways!

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            October 3, 2022 at 4:44 pm | #

            Before we get over “life ends when you’re middle aged”, we’ll have to get past “Life ends at 25”.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 3, 2022 at 6:46 am | #

      Don’t forget “Lonely Road”. I think everyone downloaded that song as a .mp3.exe back in the day.

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      October 3, 2022 at 7:54 am | #

      Don’t you mean the “cool shoeshine”?

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      October 4, 2022 at 12:00 am | #

      I was honestly expecting to come back to a thread of “song titles” that aren’t the title at all, like “Piña Coladas”

  2. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    October 3, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Totay’s strip was sponsored by Crest toothpaste. For some reason.

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 3, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Sal right now.

  4. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 3, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Wholesome. It will probably cut away after this cause we can’t have too much sweetness at once.

  5. Shitbird
    Shitbird
    October 3, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Literally the only wholesome het couple I’ve ever seen.

  6. JepMZ
    JepMZ
    October 3, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Aww, I like how happy they are. It’s like an oasis in a mad max desert of angst and depression

  7. Nono
    Nono
    October 3, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    That song by Evanescence is 20 years old, by the way. You’re welcome.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 3, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      Hell, even “Welcome to the Black Parade” which Sal sang earlier is old enough to get a driver’s license.

      MMMBop is old enough to rent a car.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 3, 2022 at 4:00 am | #

      Time is an illusion and we’re all just rapidly aging to our natural deaths. A retro emo song isn’t really much of a shock.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 3, 2022 at 6:54 am | #

        Eat Arby’s.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          October 3, 2022 at 1:02 pm | #

          They got decent gyros, so sure. Their roast beef is mid, though.

          • Songbird
            Songbird
            October 5, 2022 at 5:44 am | #

            I think they were referencing Nihilist Arby’s.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      October 3, 2022 at 5:02 am | #

      Only 20? There was still Evanescence in the 21st century? *shocked-pikachu.gif or something*

  8. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    October 3, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    …well now I understand why the title of the storyline is what it is.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 3, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

      Sal and Danny have been great for diagetically working in the song-based titles

  9. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    October 3, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxaaGgTQYM
    “Bring me to Life”

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      October 3, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

      I don’t know why people find that so hard. The title is the end of the refrain rather than the start. Like, you know, a lot of songs.

      The hard ones are when the title never actually appears as lyrics in the song.

      • Nono
        Nono
        October 3, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

        Because the catchiest part of the song is what people remember.

        • Slartibeast Button, BIA
          Slartibeast Button, BIA
          October 3, 2022 at 3:32 am | #

          See “Escape” by Rupert Hines.

          [Better know as “The Pina Coloda Song.”

          • Azhrei Vep
            Azhrei Vep
            October 3, 2022 at 8:46 am | #

            See also: Frankenstein By the Edgar Winter group.

            … Granted, it doesn’t have any lyrics, but that just makes it even easier for the title to not show up, now doesn’t it?

      • Nono
        Nono
        October 3, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

        Also that’s really not a hard and fast rule and a lot of songs have the title at the start rather than the end of the refrain. “Wrecking Ball” is at the start, the end is “You Wreck Me”. “Hotel California” is at the start. There’s lots more examples out there.

      • ZerglingOne
        ZerglingOne
        October 3, 2022 at 1:13 am | #

        When she sings “Bring me to Life” I can honestly BARELY understand her.

        It’s like… “BREEEEEEE MAAAAAAAY OOOOOOOO LAAAAAAAAAAA” and then with one or two exceptions in the entire song it’s walked over by the part of the chorus people actually remember.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          October 3, 2022 at 3:57 am | #

          I can’t understand half the lyrics to most songs unless I’m really trying to, ever since I was a kid. I mishear damn near everything and then people give me shit for not knowing some “obvious” lyric that to me just sounds like “hummahhamamam ooh baby aaamamamnenenemjejskyop” or whatever.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            October 3, 2022 at 4:36 am | #

            “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy” Famous Mondegreen

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              October 3, 2022 at 5:07 am | #

              And my brain would probably mangle that into something like “scoot smear wahmah kiss diskop” if I hadn’t read the lyric before I ever heard the song. There’s really no logic to it.

              • Mr. Random
                Mr. Random
                October 3, 2022 at 10:33 am | #

                I’m still convinced the blue alien says if he was green he would die.

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  October 3, 2022 at 1:06 pm | #

                  I got beat up by a first grader because he said the line was “I was seen out of sight” and I disagreed.

                • Casi
                  Casi
                  October 3, 2022 at 3:00 pm | #

                  It’s obviously “I’m blue and if i breathe i won’t die”

              • not someone else
                not someone else
                October 3, 2022 at 8:09 pm | #

                Goddamn hearing definition problems…

            • Wizard
              Wizard
              October 3, 2022 at 12:32 pm | #

              That one’s so well known, there’s a site called Kiss This Guy devoted to misheard lyrics.

            • Dr Sharks
              Dr Sharks
              October 3, 2022 at 12:54 pm | #

              The “Kiss the sky”/ “Kiss this guy” one is especially fun because Jimi Hendrix was aware of it and would intentionally sing it both ways. On at least one occasion he pretended to kiss his bassist after the line.

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                October 3, 2022 at 1:04 pm | #

                Sounds like a cool guy. Now I’m scared to go to his Wikipedia page and learn about him doing something heinous.

                • not someone else
                  not someone else
                  October 3, 2022 at 8:08 pm | #

                  Thankfully for the world, Jimi Hendrix never did anything heinous that got into the news.

                  …He also died really quickly after making it huge, but you can’t win ’em all.

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            October 3, 2022 at 5:10 am | #

            Hard same 😅

      • Chaucer59
        Chaucer59
        October 3, 2022 at 1:45 am | #

        Oh, like “Baba O’Riley.”

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          October 3, 2022 at 6:57 am | #

          Or Orinoco Flow by Enya?

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            October 3, 2022 at 6:23 pm | #

            You mean “Sail Away”, right?

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              October 3, 2022 at 7:17 pm | #

              That’s the one, but I thought we were posting the actual titles in this thread?

      • Rayndel
        Rayndel
        October 3, 2022 at 2:27 am | #

        Like “Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued”?

        • someone
          someone
          October 3, 2022 at 3:55 am | #

          Probably the reason why Four Non Blonde’s song “what’s going on” is actually titled “what’s up” despite “what’s up” not being part of the lyrics. But there was already a “what’s going on” song by Marvin Gaye.

          (Though it’s mostly known as the He-Man heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa song now.)

          • Daibhid C
            Daibhid C
            October 3, 2022 at 4:43 am | #

            Which is interesting, because there totally are completely unrelated songs with the same title (Pink Floyd and Queen with “The Show Must Go On”, for instance), so I wonder what the difference is.

            • Daibhid C
              Daibhid C
              October 3, 2022 at 4:49 am | #

              I looked it up on Wikipedia.

              The song actually titled “Teenage Wasteland” was also written by Pete Townsend, so it seems like it was less about being sued, and more about not confusing himself by giving two songs the same title.

              Wikipedia doesn’t say why “What’s Up?” is titled like that, but it turns out there are ten seperate songs called “What’s Going On?” so I don’t know what’s … er, happening … there.

          • Alan in DC
            Alan in DC
            October 3, 2022 at 7:41 am | #

            It must be an itch-bay to own the house next door to their lead singer.

            She wakes up every morning, steps outside, takes a deep breath, gets real high, then screams at the top of her lungs.

            That would get really damn old in a hurry.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          October 3, 2022 at 7:34 am | #

          That’s why Weird Al’s Money for Nothing parody was officially named Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies* (yes, including the asterisk).

          To his credit, Mark Knopfler’s only stipulation was that he got to play the guitar part. And he did.

      • Hof1991
        Hof1991
        October 3, 2022 at 1:55 pm | #

        Scenes from an Italian restaurant by Billy Joel. The restaurant is mentioned but isn’t particularly part of the song.

    • Rex Vivat
      Rex Vivat
      October 3, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

      Have you noticed the name of this storyline?

  10. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 3, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

    Oh GOD, please let me see Danny’s first encounter with Evanescence at some point, that sounds hilarious.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 3, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

      With Ethan in his current state, if you put your ear to his like a seashell you hear Evanescence.

      • StClair
        StClair
        October 3, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

        *lol for real*
        oh god, that’s perfect
        (and probably true)

      • Marvelman
        Marvelman
        October 3, 2022 at 12:40 am | #

        He’ll get over it. I’m pretty sure Mike isn’t really dead. The last we saw him he was hooked up to some machines. Maybe he’ll wake up from a coma with a different personality and he’ll be a really nice guy.

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      October 3, 2022 at 11:12 am | #

      It was an AMV. You know it was an AMV.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 3, 2022 at 1:08 pm | #

        If we wait a few years, we get to assume his first exposure to the song was in a Siivagunner rip.

        • insomniac
          insomniac
          October 5, 2022 at 7:14 pm | #

          Those aren’t words I know.

  11. goggleman64
    goggleman64
    October 3, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

    God I love these two

  12. Suet
    Suet
    October 3, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

    “Going Under”?

    *beat*

    Roll Credits!!

  13. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 3, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    Oh, not quite a title drop but that’s cheeky.

  14. Raen
    Raen
    October 3, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    Hanson in class? I’d heard about classes on nineties hip-hop, but I’d thought that would be to Hanson as Shakespeare to the Elizabethan/Jacobian Gilbert O’Sullivan.

  15. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    October 3, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

    I love this relationship, and give it until Dan starts making puns like “Salutatory” and “Salacious”. (Which I predict will be in a 4 months and change, our time.)

    • Nono
      Nono
      October 3, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

      Saltine Crackers.

  16. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    October 3, 2022 at 12:27 am | #

    Also, given the smiles, I’m pretty sure the song title is “Cloud Nine”.

    (Yes, I know the song doesn’t fit this scene. But the title does!)

  17. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    October 3, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

    Which class?

    • Nono
      Nono
      October 3, 2022 at 1:25 am | #

      Sal’s major is ensemble now, so she’s probably taking a lot more vocal/singing modules.

  18. Mano308gts
    Mano308gts
    October 3, 2022 at 12:37 am | #

    Now, maybe this is a regional thing, maybe it’s an age thing.. but around these parts, “that Evanescence song” refers to My Immortal. It was played relentlessly on the radio, back in the day.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      October 3, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

      Huh. Maybe it’s an age thing, but to me “My Immortal” refers exclusively to the greatest H4rry P0tter fanfiction ever written.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        October 3, 2022 at 1:08 am | #

        The first thing I think of when I see the words “My Immortal” is definitely that HP fanfic.

        • Throwatron
          Throwatron
          October 3, 2022 at 2:00 am | #

          I mean, I am (subjectively) 110% sure that that Evanescence song is the source of the title of that Harry Potter Fanfic. I may be wrong, but I feel right, which is practically the same thing is true!

          • v.gay.person
            v.gay.person
            October 3, 2022 at 2:40 am | #

            It is, there are multiple references to Evanescence in it

      • insomniac
        insomniac
        October 3, 2022 at 11:14 am | #

        The fanfiction was named after the Evanescence song.

    • Dinajoyce
      Dinajoyce
      October 3, 2022 at 1:00 am | #

      Apparently some of the others charted higher. My husband and I have had this debate a couple times and he proves me wrong with actual data each time. But yes, in my experience, My Immortal was definitely THE Evanescence song. I still love it. So pretty.

    • Azhrei Vep
      Azhrei Vep
      October 3, 2022 at 8:50 am | #

      Evanescence had a second song? The only one I’ve ever heard, anywhere, ever, is “Wake me up inside.”

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      October 3, 2022 at 11:15 am | #

      What was really the most amazingly early-2000s thing was how in the Ben Affleck Daredevil it plays the entirety of My Immortal and then immediately after plays the entirety of Bring Me To Life.

  19. Cheshrin
    Cheshrin
    October 3, 2022 at 12:39 am | #

    God, these two are so hopelessly earnest and endearing around each other it hurts.

    They’re so good for each other. Two people who genuinely enjoy each other’s company and like spending time together. As much as I love messy drama and taut will-they-won’t-they, it’s also nice to just see some good old People Liking Each Other Without Fuss thrown into the mix.

    Joe/Joyce is my OTP, but if I had to pick one singular couple to last past college and into something more life-partner-y, it would be this one.

  20. JediMB
    JediMB
    October 3, 2022 at 1:03 am | #

    How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
    Leading you down into my core
    Where I’ve become so numb

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      October 3, 2022 at 10:14 am | #

      Without a soooooouuuulllllll
      My spirit’s sleeping somewhere cold
      Until you find it theeeere
      And bring it baaaaaaaack… … …home

  21. Keulen
    Keulen
    October 3, 2022 at 1:06 am | #

    I don’t think I could deliberately avoid learning the title of a song, if it’s a song I like. When I hear a song that I like on the radio or something, I hate not knowing the title of the song and the band/singer who played and sang it. If I can’t look it up right away, I’ll try to remember (and even write down) a single line of lyrics to a song just so I can look it up later.

    • Nono
      Nono
      October 3, 2022 at 1:27 am | #

      It’s just more difficult when the title isn’t in the song itself. ‘Pompeii’, for instance, you’d be forgiven for thinking the title was something like ‘Optimist’. Luckily Google will usually figure out that a lot of people have the same problem.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 3, 2022 at 5:09 am | #

        Or when the song’s title is some random sentence that has no relationship with the lyrics, so even if you see said title, it may not even occur to you that it’s the song you’ve been humming all week.

  22. powerpowerpow
    powerpowerpow
    October 3, 2022 at 1:48 am | #

    Considering it’s early October, I have a hard time not finishing that ‘Wake Me Up” without a “When September Ends.”

  23. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    October 3, 2022 at 1:55 am | #

    Sal and Danny, in five minutes.

  24. sdrainbow
    sdrainbow
    October 3, 2022 at 2:25 am | #

    what chorus that a music major is in is singing mmmbop in the second semester of freshman year????

    …well, I guess it might be a pops concert, with a millennial TA trying to relive their youth.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 3, 2022 at 7:07 am | #

      When I was in elementary school in the mid-90s, the music teacher tried to get the kids to sing You’re The One That I Want from Grease as part of a school-wide function.

      It worked about as well as you’d expect: a few strings of lyrics interspersed through a bunch of incoherent babbling that ‘sounded right’ because nobody actually understood the words.

      We had better luck with Bob Seger’s Old Time Rock & Roll.

      … Holy crap. At that point, that song was newer than Bring Me to Life is today. Excuse me, I’m going to go age into dust now.

      • Rogue 7
        Rogue 7
        October 3, 2022 at 8:44 am | #

        I know the feeling, but I just want to say how much Old Time Rock & Roll slaps.

  25. bagge
    bagge
    October 3, 2022 at 2:43 am | #

    I suggest you ask for more than five minutes, Danny

  26. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    October 3, 2022 at 3:35 am | #

    There was a time in my life when I really really couldn’t get going in the morning. Hanson helped me a lot then, because “Mmmbop” was running a lot on VH1, and it at least got my blood flowing a bit.

    That and tricking myself into going to work by pretending I was only going out for donuts.

  27. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    October 3, 2022 at 4:19 am | #

    They are so precious and this may be the happiest and most peaceful time Sal has in years♡. But I can’t stop worrying that something terrible will suddenly happen.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 3, 2022 at 7:19 am | #

      I don’t know what’s worse: when the other shoe drops, or eternally waiting for it to drop but it never does…

  28. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    October 3, 2022 at 5:10 am | #

    wake me up inside~

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 3, 2022 at 7:28 am | #

      Wake me up inside
      Call my name and save me from the dark
      Bid my blood to run
      Before I come undone
      Save me from the nothing I’ve become

  29. Ensiform
    Ensiform
    October 3, 2022 at 7:43 am | #

    I sense a slipshine coming

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      October 3, 2022 at 7:49 pm | #

      A romantic relationship easy on both members’ social batteries culminating in intercourse.

      This would be very desirable, yes!

  30. Alan in DC
    Alan in DC
    October 3, 2022 at 7:48 am | #

    Oh please Slipshine these two. It would be refreshing to read a love scene where the participants are motivated by affection and not hormones only, without everyone yelling “Hahn” all the time.

    If my last name was Hahn, I’d be more than a little annoyed.

  31. Lan
    Lan
    October 3, 2022 at 7:54 am | #

    I love the implication here that, initially, Danny thought Sal had to learn WAP for class

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 3, 2022 at 1:11 pm | #

      I bet that song is a riot with an entire ensemble singing it.

      (That’s Sal’s class, I think. Raidah called it a choir but we don’t listen to her.(

  32. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    October 3, 2022 at 7:56 am | #

    The other big Evanescence song will be inextricably tied to a tortie, my best cat ever, who only lived to six years and four months. And the anniversary of her passing is in two days.

    I’m not here to bring anyone down. My GF watched me interact with this kitten and she was delighted at how it bonded with me. Sometimes we introverts play things close to the vest. This man/kitten relationship was a big reason she agreed to my proposal.

    For that I am ever grateful.

    And since then I’ve had a string of cats.

  33. Cybersnark
    Cybersnark
    October 3, 2022 at 10:04 am | #

    For Evanescence, it seems like Sal would be a big fan of “Everybody’s Fool.”

  34. Jenniffniff
    Jenniffniff
    October 3, 2022 at 10:40 am | #

    These two are SO CUTE I can’t help but wonder how it’s going to get messed up .

    • Dr. T
      Dr. T
      October 3, 2022 at 11:07 am | #

      Honestly, if the goal is to not repeat the dynamics of any Walkyverse couples then the result should be that they turn out to be the most healthy, stable, and committed relationship in this setting. Honestly, it makes me wonder how the couple was portrayed in Willis’s pre-Roomies! comics that he did as a kid.

    • alongcameaspider
      alongcameaspider
      October 3, 2022 at 1:34 pm | #

      My guess is Sals mom is going to approve of Danny and Sal won’t like that and may sabotage herself because of that

  35. cmd1095
    cmd1095
    October 3, 2022 at 12:01 pm | #

    As someone who likes Evanescence I should be upset about the bashing… but this strip is cute so it gets a pass

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