Stick Stickly (song)

"Stick Stickly"
Single by Attack Attack!
from the album Someday Came Suddenly
Released	June 4, 2009
Format	Digital download, compact disc
Recorded	2008 at The Foundation Studios, Connersville, Indiana
Genre	Metalcore, electronicore
Length	3:31
Label	Rise
Writer(s)	Johnny Franck
Producer	Joey Sturgis
Attack Attack! singles chronology
"Stick Stickly" (2009) Dr. Shavargo, Pt. 3 (2009)

"Stick Stickly" is a song by metalcore band Attack Attack!. The song was released as the first single from their debut album, Someday Came Suddenly. It was released as downloadable content for the Rock Band games via the Rock Band Network in March 2010. The song title comes from the character of the same name. The song is noted for starting the internet meme "crabcore", referencing the head bobbing and crab walks in the video. The song was originally released on the band's debut EP, If Guns Are Outlawed, Can We Use Swords?.

Music video

The video was originally posted on the Rise Records's MySpace and Vimeo pages.

The music video begins with a pale, blonde woman kneeling in front of a large, abandoned house. The band comes on screen and begins to perform the song. The video is primarily focused on the band performing the song, along with the woman doing various things, such as covering her ears at one point and screaming at another. Nick Barham, Attack Attack!'s then-vocalist, is found lip-syncing the vocals originally done by Austin Carlile.

Critical reception

Anna Pickard, writing for guardian.co.uk, very strongly criticized the video, and described the band's performance having their "heads nodding frantically like a pack of novelty dashboard toys who've been nailed to the dashboard of a milk float delivering malfunctioning vibrators down a cobbled street." She mentioned how "the fact that they manage to keep up the perfectly timed matching head-flail while playing their instruments (ish), singing (well, strictly speaking, this chap is the lead screamer of the band, so he's only doing what's expected of him), standing like they're sitting on partially deflated invisible gym balls – and managing this all once? [...] And all of this at such speed that their [...] faces disappear [...] That moment is nothing short of outstanding." She also compared them to "a set of dancers representing undead versions of the Jonas Brothers." She closes the review with the video being

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a terrible thing. Someone should do a fun run. For Victims of Attack Attack!. No! We'll have a telethon. "Dear viewer, please help these former members of Attack Attack!, many of whom will man the phones, or would, if we could stop them headbutting the desks."

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Buddyhead writer Chip Norman also criticized the original, unofficial music video of the song, opening the review with "How many 'worst ideas ever' can a single group of Hot Topic fatties come up with? There are no apparent limits." Norman states that the music video focuses on "an emo [who] keeps tugging on a door knob (heh) THAT JUST WON’T OPEN! Much of this has to do with the fact that the little guy keeps cry-tackling the side of the door that CANNOT BE OPENED." He focused primarily on the "emo" who appears through the whole video, and says that "the brooding goth girl is, however, a better choice than the crying emo boy given that crying emo boy’s aren’t quite so Rock & Roll." He closes the review saying "we're launching a jihad against you dorks [...] And don’t let your weird Asian dork’s mom find out about all the f-bombs he keeps dropping. Wouldn’t want you Rockers to be grounded during Warped Tour 2010!"