Though appearing a few tracks into the album, “Blank Girl” provides a pallet cleansing of sorts, presenting the slew of "firsts" high school age girls encounter: “Your first drink/And your first drug/Your first kiss/And your first love”. Crocodiles vocalist Brandon Welchez helps render the awkwardness of puberty, swaying back and forth with Dee Dee in a first-dance fashion. The mid-tempo melancholy piece holds its listeners’ emotional memory captive and supplies the escape that reading Nancy Drew novels once had. “Bhang Bhang, I’m a Burnout” features our protagonist exploring the freedom of young adulthood through psychedelic experimentation. Dee Dee’s voice flickers lightly over a wash of circulating, reverberating guitars as she sings of the substances that, “Open doors I did not know could be/In your head”. Warning that living such a life will result in burnout status, the Dum Dum Girls return from the clouds with the German-text power pop tune “Oh Mein Me”, and though the lyrics proclaim exhaustion, the determined beat lends itself to dancing.

Producer Richard Gottehrer, whose apparent sweet tooth dates back to 1965 and his work with The Strangeloves on “I Want Candy”, added the sugar coating to the Dum Dum Girls’ debut I Will Be. Whether coming of age presented a challenge and triumph worth reliving or a trauma better left suppressed, a few fleeting “pops” serve to remind us that great taste can still come in small packages.