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    2018.02.24 - La Cigale, Paris

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    And it was actually pretty good.

     

     

     

    For almost a decade the sets have been shorter, songs have been explicitly cut. He's at his special request show that has almost no chance of crossing the Atlantic basically rubbing it in none of those fans would even know the songs.

     

    Insults are fine, whatever, but when he actually believes and acts on that and charges the same money it kinda stings hearing it all the time.

     

    This is actually kinda funny. Even in France he upsets the American fans.

     

    Yaaaah Showbiz

    Album Eight: Simulation Theory

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    Arguably the worst lyricist in popular rock music for the past few years. Impressive.

     

    I dunno dude, this exists:

     

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcbOfVKSMkA

     

    I really like Ruled By Secrecy.

     

    His best, imo

     

    Taking a step away from TC's lyrics specifically, on the whole his lyrics took a nose dive when he decided to make every other song a grand political statement, or condense a complicated issue or topic into a verse/chorus/verse/chorus structure. Matt has always written simple lyrics, but since The Resistance he's dumbed them down so much that it plays like a series of loosely connected catch phrases. There's nothing to read into them, even when they're so confused that they don't make much sense; pure tell, nothing to show. It's a shame, because when he was on form he wrote some really nice lyrics.

    Album Eight: Simulation Theory

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    It does strike me as catastrophically clumsy rather than maliciously ill intentioned. But if there's one issue you would not want to be clumsy over... Their lyrical ambiguity is the reason why they have attracted fans like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck. You would have thought they'd have wanted to stamp that out, not double down on it with a line like that.

     

    Sure. His intent is one thing, but the execution is... Well, a bit shite. As Martian says, the song reads as pretty blatantly anti fascist to me so I'm not too bothered by the line, but even so, it's a pretty boneheaded thing to sing about without adding much depth.

     

    Considering that he's clearly against all of that, using "nuance" would mean edulcorating the concept, thus I disagree.

    Even with all of its flaws and incompleteness, I think TC is a blatanly anger-fueled, dramatic song, and should be treated as quite serious for its intentions.

    Yeah, even in spite of its neon tinged video, which I feel invalidates it by being too goofy.

     

    Maybe nuance isn't the word. I guess as I was saying earlier, it's the lack of depth that bothers me. He's making blatant references to fascism and the holocaust, but the lyrics are too simple to really add much depth or insight, so it's easy for things to be interpreted differently, which is a problem.

     

    Don’t care about any motive or carelessness on Matt’s part, that phrase just has too many connotations for a cheap pop song.

     

    I agree for the most part. I think there should be room in pop to discuss weighty themes and politics, but this wasn't handled brilliantly imo, and if he wants to make an artistic statement on rising fascism and misinformation, there are probably better ways to do that.

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