Downtown Fiction Debut "Thanks For Nothing"

The indie pop/rock three-piece band The Downtown Fiction released their new music video for "Thanks For Nothing." This bitter-angst filled track is the lead single featured on the band's recently released debut full length, "Let's Be Animals," which was released in April. The video totally captures that post-breakup anger toward your ex!
The boys, who hail from Virginia, are letting their ex's know that they are doing just fine without them on this spiteful and catchy new song. "Thanks for Nothing" kicks off with an ominous echo of voices and a drum that is reminiscent of heart beating. However, these sounds quickly fade out, giving way to the buoyant, pop-rock blend of guitars, bass and drums. Lead singer Cameron Leahy's voice swells with the energetic and uplifting beat, which is ironic considering the song's lyrics.
Leahy told Alternative Addiction that he penned the song after a bitter ending of a relationship in the summer of 2010 following the band's tour with The Summer Set. "When I wrote that song I had just gone through a break-up so I had some inspiration," he explained. "It wasn't really even a song I was writing for the record. I just felt like it had to be written." The origins of this track lie in a love song about the same person prior to The Downtown Fiction leaving for tour. "I had written kind of the bones of the track before we left for tour, and that was prior to the break up," explained Leahy. "The lyric in the song was actually, 'the sun don't shine when you are not around,' and then after we got back from the tour [and had the break-up] I changed some of the lyrics around and added 'thanks for nothing' on the end of it. It's sort of funny how the song completely did a 180 as far as what it meant."
The Pop-punk trio get rowdy on curb of a street in their new music video. Shaking off an ex is never easy, but as the band's latest video finds out, it can practically drive you insane. The video kicks off with a girl breaking up with her BF, but then she can't get him out of her mind! She thinks she sees him everywhere - walking through record shops, Laundromats and other local stores, our frustrated, delusional protagonist begins to see Leahy, drummer Eric Jones or bassist David Pavluk in virtually everyone she encounters, and she goes and it drives her crazy! It's totally hilarious, but still really honest and truthful!