The weird thing about living next door to the weirdest country on earth is that, no matter how much we try to pretend otherwise, America is always going to be more interesting than Canada.

Admit it: the reason you sit through 12 straight Groundhog Day-like opening minutes of COVID-19 stories on the CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme each night isn’t to keep abreast of rest home updates for Winnipeg, Laval, and Bramalea. It’s something you endure so you can get to the batshit crazy goings-on across the border.

From Maskless McDonald Trump playing pandemic serial killer, to Peckergate starring Rudy Giuliani, American politics are an endless wellspring of Grade A entertainment. There’s no shame in admitting a large part of you will be a little sad should the Mango Mussolini get his walking papers next Tuesday. Joe Biden will certainly be a more compassionate President. But he won’t be an endlessly entertaining one.

Still, assuming unrepentant racism, climate-change denial, income-tax dodging, daddy-daughter issues. and the “sport” of golfing aren’t high on the list of things you admire, change needs to happen.

With that reality in mind, it’s hard not to read plenty into the Zolas' new single “I Feel the Transition”. You want a uplifting message for one of the bleakest points in modern history? Pay attention at the 2:18 mark, when frontman Zachary Grey offers up “When light turns to dark/We’ll face it arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-arm”.

As for the rest of the tune, buckle up for five-minutes of glorious Brit-pop swagger, the vocals half-sung half-sneered, the guitars chiming like Oasis before the Gallagher brothers went full-blown blood feud.

The Zolas leave little doubt where they chose to go with the song, which is loaled with references to oligarchs, vacant towers belonging to the well-financed, and young executives.

In case there’s any doubt there, consider this mission statement from the band: “Other than just being a solid pre-game mood, our new song, “I Feel the Transition,” is mainly a diss track to centrists in 2020: a year of explosive change, but so far heavy on the explosive and light on the change. We’ve got a whole generation coming of age and immediately noticing that the politicians in power now don’t have the spine to make real moves on climate change, wealth disparity, or countless other issues.”

The video for “I Feel the Transition” is a little more open to interpretation. The action takes place in a space that—assuming we're talking Vancouver proper—probably rents for upwards of $2,500 per month. Smoking looks impossibly sexy (and let’s face it, as anyone who’s ever been to Paris will admit, it totally is). And judging from the frosted window at the left of the screen, the world outside is burning like California at high noon in the summertime.

Which of course it is.

Especially in America.

Pull up a '70s-vintage lawn chair, and enjoy the insanity.