Way To Normal (through Effingham)

For everyone who already know of him, he obviously needs no introduction. If not, get with it! Ben Folds has been around for quite some time writing poppy/cheesy songs, but they're catchy as can be. Most of his songs seem kind of off the wall as far as lyrics go, and here is a great example of this randomness.

Taken from www.mlive.com:

The title of the album, he said, are three words taken out of context from a song called "Effington." That tune's name was a mistake, he admitted. "There's a place called Normal, Ill.," said Folds, the former Ben Folds Five frontman. "We played a show there and, on the way to Normal, the van passed through Effingham and I thought it was Effington and I made a song up called Effington."

"The song sort of ended up being about the randomness of where you end up living. You could just go, 'Oh yeah. I could pick that town and just live there as you're driving down the highway or I could just keep going to Normal.' That's really kind of what the title's about. No one really knows what 'normal' is anyway."

A song about Effingham, IL from a mainstream artist. Who would've thought. I give Ben Folds double points because I lived in Normal and Effingham.

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