killer intro, guitars sound huge and great again and I love that catchy intro riff. Strong melody, catchy chorus, very good take on the challenge. Verse melody sounds very familiar to me but I can't place it so I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and just say it's a very memorable tune. A few minor criticisms, none of which really affected my overall enjoyment: I had the same issues as Round 0 with your double-tracked vocals - they sound fine on speakers but in headphones the extreme wide panning for the entire song feels wrong to me. The bit where the drums drop out in the second verse feels a little uncertain / unfinished to me. The tweak to the lyrics on the second chorus feels like a development that the final chorus reverses back out of, I'm not sure if this was intentional or not but it struck me as an odd decision.

Sound production is great, hook is worthy of a better lyric/subject. Reminds me of the quirky things TMBG or FOW would write. Double-tracked vox did not bother me.

GREAT instrumental intro

Love the sound of this song, it’s very Fountains of Wayne, and hits that power pop genre sweet spot for me. Great chorus. It’s all extremely catchy and pleasant musically. There are still some weird emphasis issues in your phrasing, like on “problem solving powers,” and in general, I found the lyrics super unlikable--the narrator’s central conflict seems to be “on the one hand, I don’t want to waste my time HELPING anyone, but on the other hand, how else will I show off and let my unrecognized genius be known? Hmm, perhaps there is a hidden benefit for ME, the most important person! But there would be no other reason for me to help my coworkers.” Which just makes me want to turn it off once I start paying attention to the words. If you’d written this about something other than bitter, passive-aggressive office politics, it probably would have scored higher for me.

I definitely didn't feel called out at all by this (Mike and I used to work together for a few years). I like the little MIDI piano-thing that's going on at first, but since it's so consistent and runs throughout the entire song, I think it detracts a bit. Overall, the song felt a little flat/lacking energy, and I think that MIDI bit never changing is part of it, although it might also be just the song I expected to hear after that first verse.

great song, I like the theme of upbeat annoyance that plays throughout. I personally like wide panned vocals, so no complaint here about that. The high guitar riff is catchy and fun. Not much to say here. I thinks it’s fun, and I don’t have much to suggest.