![]() But none of the measurements I’m getting on my measuring tape seem to match the available pieces I can purchase, so I’ve just been kind of putting the task off until I can figure out whether I’m bad at measuring or whether my guitar is weird. A friend has offered to fix it for me if I can perform what I thought was going to be the simple task of measuring the nut and buying a new one. I chipped the nut (that’s what it’s called, let’s be mature here) around my guitar’s high E string, so now chords played on the first fret there sound like shit. Thankfully-slash-alas, I can’t learn to play “Chug Jug With You” on guitar right now. So of course I had to check out all of those, with a couple detours to remember John Mayer before getting back on track, and now it’s difficult to write this blog because I keep typing the words to “Chug Jug With You” instead of whatever I’m trying to say. Then I searched YouTube for “Chug Jug song acoustic guitar.” YouTube, of course, is full of guitar lessons for the song, as well as TikTok duets with John Mayer covering it (remember John Mayer?!). This led to looking up the chords to “American Boy,” which I was pleased to learn are all chords I know. ![]() Because my brain is uniquely invested in making my soul unhappy, I then thought I wonder if I could learn to play this song on guitar. Things went exactly as you’d expect: I remembered how weird and not-funny-but-is-it-actually-funny-oh-no-it’s-actually-funny-isn’t-it-wait-no-it-isn’t-right the song is, so then I looked it up on YouTube, and then my friend shared a vtuber cover so I watched that, and now the song is crashing through my head on an unstoppable loop. ![]() ![]() If the songs that become viral on TikTok are really a result of the internet's global id, then the music industry will never be able to monetize it.But as I typed, I thought wait, is Tomato Town even still in the game? This is when it hit me, with bone-shaking force: my friend had written a snatch of lyrics from “Chug Jug With You.” It was all downhill from there. That's an optimistic outlook, and one I hope is true. YourLocalLibrary says that the way that these two ironic modes are canceling each other out shows that the internet at large is beginning to move away from a culture of calling things cringey or making fun of sincerity. But there's a second layer of irony in not putting your enjoyment of something behind a wall of ironic detachment and just liking something even if it is a little bit embarrassing, using the song as a way to make fun of that kind of ironic detachment where you can't like anything unless you're doing a bit. There's a kneejerk reaction to like the song as a way of saying that it sucks-essentially, to like it ironically. One TikToker who goes by YourLocalLibrary said that in their estimation, people are enjoying the song on two levels of irony. It's about being so endeared by this person's creativity that you love it despite of, or because of, it's flaws. What's remarkable about the response to "Chug Jug With You" on TikTok is that it's not about making fun of the person behind the song, who most users believe to be an actual child. Changing the lyrics to be about Fortnite does not diminish that. I listened to that song every day of my life in the year in 2008 when it was released, and it's still a bop now. Part of it has to do with the fact that "American Boy" by Estelle is a stone cold banger.
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