@golions13579

7 months ago

I think this might be their best song when you consider how melodic everything is, the concept, the imagery portrayed, and the emotion poured in every moment. The bridge vocals @ 3:30 send chills down my spine. The emotion can be felt. The song is about everyday life in society being based on fantasy rather than reality. This idea of everything being fake even bleeds into the guitar solo in the bridge @ 3:00 sounding like synth. Insanely clever. “While boredom tears me apart at the seams” also touches on mundane day to day routines caused by superficiality and the need to imitate. I think this directly plays into the band’s desire to not shit out another Nightmare, Self Titled, or HttK album, which they could have easily done. (Great albums btw) There’s also the idea of living inside a simulation, and there’s even a direct quote taken from the movie The Truman Show when he sings “and in case I don’t see you again, good afternoon, good evening, and good night”. And the musicality is just on another level. The first 2 “I’ve smelled the plastic daisies” Choruses 1:09 don’t pay off right away like a normal A7X chorus. They are only the vocal progressions with light keys that hint at the theatrics to come. After the bridge, the final Chorus 4:20 pays off in a HUGE way with the entire band joining before one of the most theatrically fitting outro moments I’ve ever heard in a song. The post Chorus outro at 4:35 sounds like something you’d hear in an uplifting part of a wholesome movie. It’s almost sarcastic in its delivery. Awesome stuff. I personally judge songs by if it makes the hair on my forearm stand up. For myself, this song sustains that feeling for almost the entirety of its runtime.

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