The Songs - Found Out About You
This is the second entry in my ongoing “songs that visited me, and decided they wanted to stay” series.
Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms (1992)
All last summer, in case you don't recall
I was yours and you were mine
Forget it all
Is there a line that I could write
That's sad enough to make you cry?
And all the lines you wrote to me were lies
Music folks are sometimes really dumb. “Found Out About You” was the FOURTH single off the album, not the first. How anybody from ANY record company could hear this three and a half minutes of pop perfection and consider three other songs more worthy of being played on the radio is one of the reasons nobody listens to the radio anymore.
But still.
First off, Gin Blossoms are not a great band. That they are still around and making a decent living on the 90s nostalgia cruises is because of songs like this. Along with “Hey Jealousy” and “Lost Horizons” (both nearly as good), “Found Out About You” was written by the band’s original guitar player Doug Hopkins. But by the time their major label debut album was released, he had been fired from the band due to his alcoholism. So while the album went on to sell 4 million copies, an increasingly desperate Hopkins couldn’t go anywhere without hearing his own songs coming back at him. The band had bought him out (reportedly for $15,000), so he never made a penny. They simply recruited a replacement, who mimed to Hopkins’s guitar tracks in the band’s heavily rotated MTV videos, and hoped nobody would notice. And nobody did. That is until Hopkins committed suicide and all the sordid details became public. Apparently the split was not amicable, and Hopkins never forgave his former bandmates.
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