They seemed to revere Third Eye Blind beyond all reason. But over time I noticed that Third Eye Blind came up consistently whenever I talked about ’90s music with people at least five to 10 years younger than me. My friends, I am here to report that this will not be the case, because Third Eye Blind is more beloved and important than you might realize. The tone of this coverage tended to vary between grudging admiration for 3EB’s trolling and bemused bewilderment that we were all talking about that band, which most people remember (if at all) for the irritating/indestructible ear worm “Semi-Charmed Life,” a top five hit from 1997 that was recently described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as having “everything you might have hated about the ’90s, there in one place.” Implicit in this discussion was the assumption that after a few days the world would go back to forgetting that Third Eye Blind ever existed.
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I even saw it on my local evening TV newscast. What would normally be a low-profile gig for a journeyman rock band went viral when frontman Stephan Jenkins mocked attendees (“Raise your hands if you believe in science”) and pointedly prefaced the anti-suicide song “Jumper,” the only hit in the set list, with a call to “move forward and not live your life in fear and imposing that fear on other people.” When the audience responded by booing Jenkins, he replied, hilariously, “You can boo all you want, but I’m the motherf*ckin’ artist up here.”īecause someone shot a video of these shenanigans, the Third Eye Blind story was picked up by pretty much every media outlet. For those who missed it: the group performed at a fundraiser earlier this week in Cleveland for an audience of Republicans in town for the party’s convention. Of all the strange, unfathomable events that we’ve had to process during this exceedingly strange, unfathomable summer, among the most peculiar is the unlikely resurgence of ’90s alt-rock band Third Eye Blind.
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