You don’t need to have erectile dysfunction or a crippling amphetamine addiction to loathe the oppressive and oversaturated infatuation with all things sports-related in pop culture today. Luckily, the Swedish post-punk outfit aptly named Viagra Boys has already done it with their summer 2018 single “Sports.” What’s lost in the depths of flaccidity and pill-popping is recovered as a concoction of equal parts cocaine and malt liquor; a hungover voice for absurdity and postmodernism. What may very well be the ramblings of a stimhead 36 hours deep into a binge as he attempts to achieve sleep via blackout could just as easily be a fresh, poetic critique of the contemporary apocalypse that is the Corporate Sports Industrial Complex. I, for one, will continue to enjoy “Sports” whether it’s basketball or gettin’ high in the mornin’. — PEYTON MITZEL
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