This is a new Spoon song. That’s why there are chugging acoustic guitars and sprightly spare pianos and Britt Danielses in it; those are all things that belong in Spoon songs. New, however, are synthesized saxophones, farting Will Ferrell’s way through some zany post-modern chase scene. The Danielses in this new Spoon song sing wryly literate lyrics, bouncing off the movie’s so-cute premise with ease. Gimme Fiction, someone once said in an old Spoon song, and so the Danielses coo, “All that we was / Just because / All that we blew / Just a clue,” begging a question that answers itself, self-reflexively, back and forth, forever; or whatever. I don’t really get this shit, to tell you the truth: it’s like two mirrors bouncing off each other and forming a black hole, but here Spoon have made a Spoon song about it, and it is catchy, like most Spoon songs before it, and hopefully many more Spoon songs after it. I may sound disappointed, but I am not. This is, after all, a new Spoon song.

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