Arcade Fire - Everything Now (July 28,2017) Album • Page 11

I had some friends that went to a Murder By Death show in Colorado (I think, it was at the same hotel in which Kubrick filmed The Shining). It was a black tie affair and they recreated the final picture after the show.

 

Too nervous that the leak quality isn't good enough to check it out

 

It's good

 

This verse is

All my presents are broken, before they're open
And the promises, the second they're spoken
I know I've been different
My skin keeps shedding
My mother was crying on the day of our wedding
Trumpets of angels call for my head
I fight through the ether and I quit when I'm dead
If you want to know who'll be there in the end
When you bury me baby, I'll still be your friend

 

Oof

 

Just...why?

 

Yikes.

 

oh god haha

 

Hahahaha. Fuck off.

 

They did this last release cycle too.

 

Nah it wasn't mandatory last time. This time they literally say they will kick you out.

 

Well yeah, but it's not like this is coming completely out of left field.

 

It's for the release party show not the whole tour.

 

I know that's the case at least for the shirt color part

 

With most of my formative music listening years coinciding with what felt like a particularly significant time in punk and indie music really establishing a hold in the mainstream, I've for the most part always laughed when people got mad at a band for "selling out." Like, if the music's good the music's good and I don't care who's putting money behind promoting it or how a band is somehow lessening themselves by reaching for a more widespread audience. But to anyone wondering why it's cool to hate on Arcade Fire now, this (and the Reflektor rollout/thematic content of that album) are perfect examples. They're basically the opposite of what made them appealing on Funeral.

I really can't think of a band that has fared worse at navigating the path from underdog breakout to world fame. It might be that the core of their sound - the grandiosity, the 'this is super important!' lyrics - don't play as well from the main stage as they do when they're coming from a band that still feels like they're trying to prove something...

...or they might just kinda be navel-gazing a-holes.

 

If anything, I'd argue that this album roll out shows they really don't give a shit who likes them and who doesn't.

The Suburbs was a low-key middle finger to the indiesphere

 

I mean if you sat down with the lyrics to Neon Bible and thought "I wonder what would happen if you gave this band 10 billion dollars" the Reflektor/Everything Now roll outs are pretty easy to imagine.

 

#content

 

Yea like a tweet I saw. Arcade Fire are going full Misty. They're trolling everyone, and everyone is taking the bait.

 

put your money on me is fucking radddddddddddd

 

Misty does it 100000% better

 

How many music writers on twitter do you think were still mid-meme when the 45 minute news cycle of #DressCodeGate ended?

 

This album is... a lot of fun?