If Max Bemis is known for anything, it certainly isn’t subtlety. The lead singer of indie-rock band Say Anything, Bemis rose to popularity for his brutally honest music that was rather unafraid to just say what was on his mind in the most frank way imaginable (such as the once excessively popular song amongst my friends in high school “Admit It“). After gaining a fair deal of fame and notoriety, Bemis opened up the Max Bemis Song Shop, an online emporium in which fans could commission Bemis to write a song about whatever suits their fancy.
It’s with all of this fame and lack of subtlety in mind that Ben Young commissioned Bemis a song about the Viltrumite War from “Invincible” as a gift to his wife, as spied on “Invincible” artist Ryan Ottley’s twitter feed last night. Featuring custom art by Ottley on both sides of the record (and a “secret b-side” not revealed by Young), the song is effectively exactly what you’d expect from Bemis stripped down: acoustic, simplistic, anything but subtle (“you make me feel… Invincible!”) yet never the less effective. Besides, how many other songs about “Invincible” do you know of at the moment?
Take a listen above.
