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2009’s Love Drunk saw the band polishing their sound for arenas. The title track was pure reckless energy, while the acoustic-led duet with Taylor Swift, “Two Is Better Than One,” became their highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 (No. 18). Though critically mixed at the time, the album has since been reevaluated as a pop-punk touchstone.

The mid-2000s were a lightning bottle for a specific brand of emotional, high-energy pop-rock. Among the titans of the neon-pop-punk era, few bands captured the essence of suburban teenage longing quite like . boys like girls

Why did the phrase "Boys Like Girls" resonate? Because it was . In the lyrically dense, metaphor-heavy world of mid-2000s emo, it was refreshingly direct. It was a mission statement about heteronormative, suburban teenage angst. 2009’s Love Drunk saw the band polishing their