A Wet Sponge is undoubtedly the angriest of Johnny Goes West's songs (A Slice Of Ambience being the most frustrated). It concerns the topic of anti-scenism, a popular theme in a lot of the band's unreleased later acoustic material. (Rather than "scenism" in the general sense of simply hipsterism, this refers to "scene" being an extension of "emo".) The lyrics more specifically concern "scene girls"; girls who are very pretty but very vain and who

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