The song makes fun of the trendy crowd – those who will do anything to fit in and look cool. As the band’s leader, Aaron Barrett put it, “it’s the trendiest thing of all to make fun of trendy people”.
Everybody's doin' the fish
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Everybody's doin' the fish
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Everybody's doin' the fish
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Everybody's doin' the fish
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It's not so bad bein' trendy
Everyone who looks like me is my friend
Please don't hate me because I'm trendy
They're not gonna laugh at me again
One of us
One of us
One of us
One of
Everybody does it (Everybody does it)
And I wonder why don't you? (Why don't you?)
Everybody, everybody does it (C'mon, everybody)
Maybe you should too (C'mon)
'Cause you don't want to be left out
You wanna' be cool
One of us
One of us
One of us
One of
It's not so bad bein' trendy
Everyone who looks like me is my friend
Please don't hate me because i'm trendy
They're not gonna laugh at me - again
One of us
One of us
One of us
One of us
Everybody's makin' fun of me
'Cause they say that I'm so trendy
'Cause I do what others do
They make fun of me
They'll make fun of you
But I don't wanna be left out
I wanna be cool
Trendy was written by Aaron Barrett & Matt Wong (Bassist).