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Artist: Kaiser Chiefs
Album: Everything Is Average Nowadays
Release Date: 27 Aug 2008

"Everything Is Average Nowadays" is a song by England|English Rock music|rock Musical ensemble|band Kaiser Chiefs and is the ninth track on their second album, ''Yours Truly, Angry Mob''. The song was released as the second single (music)|single from that album in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2007 (see 2007 in British music).<ref name="Kaiser_Chiefs">{{cite web|title=New Single Details - "Everything Is Average Nowadays" - Out 21st May|url=http://www.kaiserchiefs.co.uk/txp/index.php?id=389</ref> At the band's gig at Shepherds Bush Empire on 3 March that year, singer Ricky Wilson had introduced the song as "the second single from the album", leading to the initial speculation. The single was confirmed on March 25 on the band's website.

The title of the song is often seen as an allusion to the Buzzcocks song "Everybody's Happy Nowadays". It also seems to be heavily influenced by Blur (band)|Blur to whom the band is often unfavourably compared. Cult Wirral band Half Man Half Biscuit covered much of the same lyrical ground some 15 years previously with "Everything's AOR".

A live version of the song recorded in Berlin during the band's tour there in November 2006 was released in the United States on 13 March 2007 as part of a promotional single|promotional disc offered at Best Buy stores.<ref nam

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