Frank Kogan

Left a few more comments on this one at the Tumblr, but to paraphrase here:

(1) I fundamentally agree with how Frank characterizes the song, and my use of "stupid" is too harsh. "Arbitrary and strange" is more accurate. But

(2) That still qualifies it as a novelty for me, as not every novelty has to shove its literal novelty in yer face ("Girlfriend" shoves everything in your face but still essentially sounds like a Dr. Luke derivative, and "Tap That" is both better AND more novel!). I can't imagine any other song that "reads" anything like "Summer Girls," except

(3) Then I remembered someone mentioning that "steal your honey like I stole your bike" is a quote from the Beastie Boys song "New Style," and looking at those lyrics, the similarities in lyrical approach slapped me in the face. LFO were looking for the union between the Beastie and Backstreet Boys, and damned if they didn't find something interesting. "Paul Revere" could well be a Beasties nod as well. I'm going to do a line by line look and try to reconstruct the free-associative jam session Rich Cronin ("said my name was Rich!") may have gone through to write the song in the first place, since as far as I know no one has ever actually looked to see how these lyrics might fit together before.