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Huey Lewis naming his album “Sports” was shrewd, associates with Jock Clique

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Twinkling Aromatic Indian Lodge Regret
  07/16/25
Lots of people bought it cause the album cover was like Jock...
Twinkling Aromatic Indian Lodge Regret
  07/16/25
Also the band name associates him the Liberal Arts. He basic...
pearl parlour
  07/19/25
Most rock music is Loser- or Scumbag-coded. Making explicitl...
Twinkling Aromatic Indian Lodge Regret
  07/19/25
yeah it's pretty shrewd. Losers/Scum have like 8,000k bands ...
pearl parlour
  07/19/25
Yeah. Even Nerds have Rush, King Crimson, etc. What do Jocks...
Twinkling Aromatic Indian Lodge Regret
  07/19/25
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pearl parlour
  07/19/25
Huey is too black sounding for me
Sickened Dashing Messiness
  07/19/25


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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:31 PM
Author: Twinkling Aromatic Indian Lodge Regret



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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: Twinkling Aromatic Indian Lodge Regret

Lots of people bought it cause the album cover was like Jocks playing Sports which make the band look Cool by association.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:41 PM
Author: pearl parlour

Also the band name associates him the Liberal Arts. He basically couldn't Lose. The Parker Lewis of his day.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:51 PM
Author: Twinkling Aromatic Indian Lodge Regret

Most rock music is Loser- or Scumbag-coded. Making explicitly Jock-coded rock was a brilliant innovation imho. Having it be slightly tongue-in-cheek (“The News”) was necessary for the Losers who Gatekeep. Like whoever tapped Huey for Back to the Future was probably a Loser who wished he were a chill-bro Jock.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:57 PM
Author: pearl parlour

yeah it's pretty shrewd. Losers/Scum have like 8,000k bands to choose from. Preps can kind of just nod along to Taylor Swift or Dave Matthews or whatever. It's a much Shorter list. Huey was shrewd to capitalize on it.

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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:02 PM
Author: Twinkling Aromatic Indian Lodge Regret

Yeah. Even Nerds have Rush, King Crimson, etc. What do Jocks have? Huey even got the look down, he dressed like an 80s MLB player who recently retired. Like if Steve Garvey started a rock band.

Hootie did this in the 90s (remember that video with all the SportsCenter stuff) and I’m convinced that was what caused their huge popularity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751232&forum_id=2#49114294)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:40 PM
Author: pearl parlour



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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: Sickened Dashing Messiness

Huey is too black sounding for me

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