The singer is a pretentious, upper-class, champagne socialist twit (and the song was taught to me by a girl who largely fits that description, too), but the song and video are pretty... On point.
Like if Bruce Springsteen went to a "public" school, lol.
The song is very folksy sounding and looking at the lyrics I can see why it could be interpreted as either nihilistic or hopeful depending on the listener.
I like Ben Howard's "Oats in the Water" it always invokes a reaction from me.
Mate careful looking at lyrics of some songs as a LOT of them can be fucked up or depressing but people glance over them because they get caught up in the beat or in another language like with a lot of the Anime OP and EDs I hear.
Want the best example of this I can think of is Crystal Castles as their entire itinerary was fucked up in the lyrics department and I only heard of them thanks to Saints Row 2 with arguably one of their more f'd up songs. Though finding out what happened behind the scenes with that group, the lyrics make A LOT more sense...
I think the most commercially misunderstood song is The Polices's "Every Breath You Take"
It's become a romcom and wedding staple but it's about an obsessive stalker, hardly a romantic notion. But people hear the hook and the melody and think it's beautiful. Speaking of hook, the song "Hook" by Blues Travelers is a song about writing a song. They literally describe constructing a hit song for radio friendly consumption
I personally like showing people Maximum the Hormone just to fuck with them. It was really easy back when they made the OP/ED for Death Note and it became easy again when Chainsaw Man of all things dedicated a whole chapter to their most famous song.
Because not only is their music in a completely other language, half of its runtime is spent being peppy JPOP because their drummer is a tiny Asian girl singing it.
Lots of bands are like this. It's almost a game to me, to figure out the subject matter of the popular songs of the day people hum along to. All of modern pop is hedonistic, self-sabotaging, impulsive/compulsively/willfully about how making destructive choices is fun and edgy. Literally all of it. It's by design. Keep your subconscious gloomy and depressed so you don't have time to think about improving yourself. Read the lyrics to any Taylor Swift song, for example.
The singer is a pretentious, upper-class, champagne socialist twit (and the song was taught to me by a girl who largely fits that description, too), but the song and video are pretty... On point.
Like if Bruce Springsteen went to a "public" school, lol.
The song is very folksy sounding and looking at the lyrics I can see why it could be interpreted as either nihilistic or hopeful depending on the listener.
I like Ben Howard's "Oats in the Water" it always invokes a reaction from me.
Mate careful looking at lyrics of some songs as a LOT of them can be fucked up or depressing but people glance over them because they get caught up in the beat or in another language like with a lot of the Anime OP and EDs I hear.
Want the best example of this I can think of is Crystal Castles as their entire itinerary was fucked up in the lyrics department and I only heard of them thanks to Saints Row 2 with arguably one of their more f'd up songs. Though finding out what happened behind the scenes with that group, the lyrics make A LOT more sense...
I think the most commercially misunderstood song is The Polices's "Every Breath You Take"
It's become a romcom and wedding staple but it's about an obsessive stalker, hardly a romantic notion. But people hear the hook and the melody and think it's beautiful. Speaking of hook, the song "Hook" by Blues Travelers is a song about writing a song. They literally describe constructing a hit song for radio friendly consumption
Which is crazy, since it's not exactly subtle.
But, remember, Baby, It's Cold Outside is too "rapey."
Not subtle at all, it makes you think what are we all doing when listening to music.
It's kinda hilarious that the stalker song became played at weddings so much in the West
Meanwhile, weebs wholesome as fuck when this and this are their go to choices.
Yeah, a lot of Police songs are quite creepy, when you listen closely to the lyrics…
“Don’t Stand So Close To Me” is probably the most obvious one, lol…
But “Wrapped Around Your Finger” is… Similarly stalker-ish, too…
I personally like showing people Maximum the Hormone just to fuck with them. It was really easy back when they made the OP/ED for Death Note and it became easy again when Chainsaw Man of all things dedicated a whole chapter to their most famous song.
Because not only is their music in a completely other language, half of its runtime is spent being peppy JPOP because their drummer is a tiny Asian girl singing it.
Lots of bands are like this. It's almost a game to me, to figure out the subject matter of the popular songs of the day people hum along to. All of modern pop is hedonistic, self-sabotaging, impulsive/compulsively/willfully about how making destructive choices is fun and edgy. Literally all of it. It's by design. Keep your subconscious gloomy and depressed so you don't have time to think about improving yourself. Read the lyrics to any Taylor Swift song, for example.
Rather not, makes me thing me listening to Prodigy when I was young kept me positive lol.
Oof.
Also, if we're sharing that style or theme, Rome has a few; Who Only Europe Know, and Hate Us and See If We Mind.
Also, there's a few famous folk/country songs along the same theme, Hurt (Johnny Cash cover), and You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive (Darrell Scott original and Patty Loveless cover), and Northwest Passage. And a favorite of mine, Slaid Cleaves' Breakfast in Hell.
Honorable mention, not existential in the same way, but still rather haunting: Miner's Silver Ghost.