Less reverb, yes. But I fear in that case we might find the vocalist isn't very talented without the karaoke effects. Prove me wrong.
As for the song itself, I thought the refrain was pretty catchy until the slowdown/change, when it started to remind me of a Meat Loaf song. And not in a good way. But the refrain, which was after all most of the song, was enjoyable. So yay.
I did, however, think the keyboard could've used more than one little four-line set of notes. It got a bit old.
The techno-noise interlude was pretty good, but only because I'm a sucker for techno-noise. I don't think it had much intrinisic musical merit -- but neither do the Offspring and I bought their CD anyway.
---
peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002