America 250 Rocktober Song #11: "Corn Dog Sonnet #7" by Sincere Engineer

We're heading back to the Midwest for the eleventh song of this Rocktober.  Chicago's Sincere Engineer has been putting out music for about ten years now.  I've had the pleasure of seeing them four or five times, and they put on a great show.  They always seem like they're (a) having fun and (b) grateful to be there -- which are two of the best qualities a band can have while onstage.

Musically, they straddle the line between punk, pop punk, and indie rock, whatever that means.  I think I would classify their songs as being observational, introspective, and/or somewhat self-deprecating.  And my selection probably falls within all everything I've just mentioned.

"Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7" is a song off the band's debut album, 2017's Rhombithian.  It doesn't get more American or more Midwestern than encased meat encased in cornmeal and deep fried -- and then writing and recording a song about it.  Well, more specifically, it's about lying on the couch all day and eating corn dogs.  The video, which was made by lead singer Deanna Belos, has various scenes of the songs lyrics written on things in mustard -- and as the liner notes to the YouTube video say, "probably ruined a lot of stuff in the process."  It doesn't get more Chicago than mustard and hot dogs.  Frankly, people who put ketchup on hot dogs are untrustworthy as humans.  There, I said it.

I'm going to be returning some videotapes tomorrow, but I'll be back on Monday for another exciting week of America 250 Rocktober.