jtj39
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Most other bands I listen to are VERY ambiguous with their lyrics, so yeah, I'm not into being overly blatant. I know it's all opinions, and I get your preference, but I'm a little disappointed I guess?
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k I think it's just Defector and Revolt ruining the album for me (I already deleted Drones so I'm not even counting that)
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Buuut saying an album is dark doesn't make it dark. If I were to listen to it without knowing any background info, I wouldn't find it musically or lyrically dark. That's what I'm saying.
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So it's safe to say they've given up on the whole being serious thing? Daamn.
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You say it like it's a bad thing
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I don't sense darkness in any of there songs other than The Handler. Gee maybe I have a different idea of what's truly considered "dark". The cheesy lyrics in some of the songs don't help either, they just sound comical, and are probably what ruined the album for me. I was cool with it on T2L because the thing had a colorful broccoli on the cover for god's sake but Drones should have been more serious, no?
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I'm not saying that, I'm saying that it takes more than a few lines of "war is bad" to fully explore it. It's a dark topic that didn't translate into an album very well. There's many things that weren't explored in the album. It's easy for Matt to have a song about rebelling against oppression, but is it in reality? No. I don't think that aspect was represented.
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I was hoping it wouldn't be all up in your face about war. The more subtle songs I can listen to but I can't stand someone whining about war when they've never been in anything like it. It's a heavy subject, that's all.
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That's why I said some. DI, Handler, Mercy, and Aftermath I agree with you are good, I felt it. But these songs aren't very literal either.
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Eh I knew someone would bring up this point, and I'm well aware that there are good writers out there who haven't gone through what they write about. But they are WRITERS. They're good at it. Not everyone is.
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What? If I wanted to hear about war I can turn on the news. Music puts emotion into it and I don't feel any when listening to this album.
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But the issue is that Matt has failed to create an emotional connection with it, which is a huge part of writing music imo. He may be interested in it, but he doesn't deeply feel it and that shows very clearly in most songs on this album.
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The worst thing about the lyrics and the whole concept album is that basically Matt has no idea what he's talking about. Sorry Matt, but you can't write about drones and war sitting in your mansion. Boohoo if that offends anyone, but seriously, the lyrics suck because he is just not deeply connected with them. It's never gonna work.
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Yeah, it did kind of fade after a few months, but I can still occasionally go back and listen to every song, except maybe Save Me and Liquid State. But even Survival which is a total cheese-fest makes a great running song I can't say the same about Revolt, which is cheesy without purpose (I'm mostly talking about the "YOU MUST GROOW" part, if I could get over that maybe I'll like it but as of now NOPE)
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Dare I say, now that I've relistend to Drones a few times, that I enjoyed T2L a lot better.... Something about this album is just not clicking with me