Not all ideas are good ideas. Much like the rest of us, Thomas Stajcer has had a solid year and a half to allow some of those not-so-good ideas to percolate, fester and multiply. Now, after so many months indoors, he’s like a cuddly little Mogwai, racing off to your local watering hole and nothing good is going to come of it. His latest single, “Heading to the Bar to Do Bad Again,” is about as self-explanatory as you can expect from a title like that.
Shenanigans are inevitable.
Though written ages ago with Campbell Woods, “Heading to the Bar to Do Bad Again” is primed for our current social predicament, which has already been dangerously teetering on the edge of a purge scenario for a while.
We might find ourselves currently at that precipice, but Stajcer didn’t write this entirely in the vacuum of the before times. Presumably, there was some inciting event that caused this particular nugget to manifest within Stajcer’s soul.
“Well, the song is about getting sober for a relationship, only to figure out that relationship doesn’t work sober so you give it up and head to the bar,” laughs Stajcer.
“As far as making mistakes in a bar… I mean, sure there’s plenty there but nothing really worth the telling,” he adds, pleading the fifth between the lines.
Stajcer may lay out an ironic turnaround with the clarity of sobriety shedding some light on a flawed relationship that only runs on social lubricant, but the song remains nonspecific on the terms of the fallout. The worst of the ideas outlined involves turning friends into lovers and the rest is open to interpretation; the Choose Your Own Adventure of falling off the wagon.
“Heading to the Bar to Do Bad Again” is the third single to be released off of Stajcer’s upcoming album, Midwestern States. Full of tongue-in-cheek country tropes, the single follows “Who Will Listen To Country Music When Trucks Drive Themselves?” and “If I Had One Bottle More.” Midwestern States is expected to be released on September 10, 2021.