You know, I wish I had had Jessie’s girlfriend …
Rick Springfield finally makes his wish come true. But it’s very different from the dream girl he was expecting. In a weird and unusual move, Coheed and Cambria wrote a sequel to Billboard champion Rick Springfield, Grammy winner in 1981, “Jessie’s Girl,” aptly titled “Jessie’s Girl 2,” which imagines what would happen if Springfield really did have the girlfriend. … and turned out to be a psychopath.
In the exclusive video above, Coheed and Cambria are joined by none other than Springfield himself as they contemplate a murderous future for Jessie’s Girl, who apparently can’t pause to go from being a dream girl without name to an unnamed killer. While to be fair, it’s unclear whether the song’s claims that she’s a “monster” are so literal, as her worst acts (which include burning a pool table and stealing some keys ) are committed by an animated version of it in Springfield’s imagination.
Coheed and Cambria first came up with the idea for “Jessie’s Girl 2” in 2019,.
while performing on Springfield’s iconic song Hook during studio sessions. “Has anyone ever written a sequel to another artist’s song? I don’t think so.” Claudio Sanchez, singer / guitarist of Coheed and Cambria, said in a statement. “As a fan of the movies, that seemed like a really cool idea.” The result is what Sanchez describes as “a National Lampoon movie meets So I Married an Ax Murderer”.
The new song even pays homage to the general era of this 1980s genre of writing with a little reference to another classic from the era, Tommy Tutone’s 1981 hit “867-5309 / Jenny”. Why not turn it into an 80s power pop extravaganza ?!
Coheed and Cambria even cobbled together the idea of an entire album called .
Sequels” of similar material, so the extra Easter egg makes sense. It was the COVID-19 pandemic that led the group to really dig into the idea of embodying a sequel concept to “Jessie’s Girl,” and after pitching the idea in Springfield on Instagram Live, the two got together. reunited. to pick up where the rocker left off 40 years ago.
Springfield appears in the video along with guests on the runway, as “Jessie’s Girl 2 ″ turns romantic expectations of the original song in their heads.
“Jessie’s Girl 2” is available for pre-order on a 7 “vinyl version which will debut on September 4. The vinyl will also include a B-side director’s song version, and the website also features” Jessie’s Girl 2 ” merch. Tom Carper throws atomic bomb on Postal
Check out the words of the sinister sequel below, and watch the video above for more.
“Jessie’s Girl 2” by Coheed and Cambria feat. Rick springfield
So a miracle happened
And I got my wish
(See) Jessie got it right
(Strange to me then, makes sense to me now) I’ll take what’s hers
Oh, it got me dirty …
Because things have had fun over time (it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen, nothing can stop it)
This one knows that we know
It’s out, it’s out
He lost his mind
I don’t love you Jessie girl anymore, you lose Jessie’s girl and things will get better
Of course I probably earned it
(Fuckin ‘right yes you did)
(Damn right you did, boy)
What kind of friend was I?
The hunter has become the hunted
(Strange to me then, it makes sense to me now) When I walked into her life
Oooh, so I changed my number
A 867-5305
(He didn’t, he didn’t, he didn’t stop her) He didn’t let me leave the house alive
I don’t love you anymore Jessie’s daughter, you lose, Jessie’s daughter And things will get better
I don’t love you Jessie girl anymore, you lose Jessie girl and things will get better
It seemed strange that he didn’t fight
When that fateful night broke her heart
Jessie played honestly
It looked good
What I didn’t know was that I was her idiot. We are now married
Home, work, three children
Dreaming about what life could have failed between her and maybe
If I had left this monster in the 1980s
I don’t love you Jessie girl anymore, you lose Jessie’s girl and things will get better
I don’t love you Jessie girl anymore, you lose Jessie girl and things will get better
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