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Average Joe by Oscar Scheller

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Oscar Scheller

Average Joe

Release date: 19th February 2021

From Boys Cry
Track 4
3:17
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About This Track

‘Average Joe’ by Oscar Scheller is an alternative track from the album ‘Boys Cry’ (2021). The lyrics come from a pointedly unbothered, anti-status stance, pushing back on ideas of masculinity, social approval, and what school culture demands. A speaker shrugs off “manly stuff” and contests the authority of other people’s opinions, insisting their own reading, words, and attitude matter more than the label of being cool. It is a defiant, argumentative lyric that treats conformity as something to be rejected, not answered.

"Average Joe" is a track by Oscar Scheller, from the album Boys Cry, released 19th February 2021. The track is 3:17 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Oscar Scheller.

About the Artist

Oscar Scheller

Oscar Scheller

Lyrics

Average Joe

I don't really think too much 'bout all the manly stuff
I read a poem once that parents fuck you up
Oh, does society tell us that, what if we go wrong?
Your words don't prove that much to me
Go ahead and speak 'cause

I don't care about being cool
Fuck what they all thought in school
Now I'm not your textbook average Joe
I'll bend all the rules
I'll play around 'cause I'm free
Can't tell me what masculine means
'Cause I'm not your textbook average Joe

No, no, don't cry
Boy you're paper-thin, don't show me that you're weak
'Cause you play with your action man
But Barbie doll's your inner peace
Well, you can take your note and run a mile the other way with it
'Cause there's power in vulnerability
No it ain't defeat, no

I don't care about being cool
Fuck what they all thought in school
Now I'm not your textbook average Joe
I'll bend all the rules
I'll play around 'cause I'm free
Can't tell me what masculine means
'Cause I'm not your textbook average Joe
No, that's not me

I don't care about being cool
Fuck what they all thought in school
Now I'm not your textbook average Joe
I'll bend all the rules
I'll play around 'cause I'm free
Can't tell me what masculine means
'Cause I'm not your textbook average Joe
No, that's not me

Sha-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la (No, that's not me)
Sha-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la (No, that's not me)
Not your average Joe

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Track details

From Boys Cry

3:172021
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Album
Boys Cry
Boys Cry
Oscar Scheller
19th February 2021
Track number
4
Release year
2021
  1. 12D
    3:34
  2. 2Half Eaten
    3:19
  3. 3Famous Enough to Die
    2:46
  4. 4Average Joe
    3:17

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    Oscar Scheller pokes fun at himself with fun new single, 'Weirdo'

    "It's good to laugh at yourself."

    4 Nov 2021 • 11:16 am
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    News

    Oscar Scheller has released his third studio album, 'Boys Cry'

    "It’s essentially a meditation on male vulnerability," he explains.

    19 Feb 2021 • 8:37 pm
    Oscar Scheller has teamed up with MUNA's Katie Gavin for reassuring new bop, 'I’m Enough'
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    Oscar Scheller has teamed up with MUNA's Katie Gavin for reassuring new bop, 'I’m Enough'

    "I am enough, with or without someone."

    5 Feb 2021 • 9:50 pm
    Oscar Scheller has shared his fun new pop-bop, 'Average Joe'
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    Oscar Scheller has shared his fun new pop-bop, 'Average Joe'

    "'Average Joe' is about challenging ideas of masculinity."

    25 Sept 2020 • 9:57 am
    Oscar Scheller and Lily Allen have teamed up for a new track, '1%'
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    Oscar Scheller and Lily Allen have teamed up for a new track, '1%'

    Titled 1%, it's the latest track from Oscar's new project 'HTTP404'.

    11 Jul 2019 • 10:28 am
    Oscar Scheller has delivered a brand new single, 'Downside'
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    Oscar Scheller has delivered a brand new single, 'Downside'

    It's the latest track to arrive from the artist previously known as Oscar.

    10 Apr 2019 • 7:06 pm