Song of the Day 4/7: Winger, “Seventeen”

H/t Foster McKenzie for this one, which I had never heard. He’s right, this should be Matt Gaetz’ rally music, not just for the apt lyrics but for its general cheeziness.

Grunge might not be everyone’s favorite rock genre, but this is a good reminder of the played-out formula it replaced. This was one of the singles from Winger’s eponymous 1998 debut LP, which went platinum, mainly because from the mid-’80s to the early ’90s consumers were fed a steady diet of hair-metal crud. Winger’s second album also went platinum, but the group had disbanded by 1994. They’ve since re-formed several times, and are currently residing in the Where Are They Now? file.