Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust (March 24,2023) Band • Page 94

i'm the same way!!! i've decided i'm going to try to take patrick's advice in that apple music interview and "start with the lyrics"

 

Opinions can be wrong. All depends on the context.

also, where all these pandemic songs? I know of 4.

 

yes you certainly seem like someone who truly enjoys what they do!

 

This thread rn.

 

My qualm with pandemic lyrics is that, as a writer, it often times feel like low hanging fruit in terms of relating to an audience. I resonate a lot with lyrics, it’s the avenue in which I gravitate to songs the most, and I personally don’t enjoy when a lyric “feels” shallow. It’s just my interpretation of it, and I’ll admit that I’ve become fond of pandemic-centric lyricism after hearing an artist’s backstory regarding it, but I am very transparent in saying that they will always give me whiplash on a first listen. I haven’t really seen anyone do it eloquently yet; it always sticks out to me in a way that has to be appreciated after the fact, but it might be just my personal taste in poetry.

That being said, no writer owes me anything. They can write how they feel; I’m just a consumer.

 

This is what every person says who hates their life and has been destroyed on a forum before they disappear for awhile. You’ll be back and you’ll still be wrong. Bye.

 

They say that I should try meditation
But I don’t want to be with my own thoughts
It never felt that much like medication

The good Pete shit right there.

 

I think love songs are just as low hanging fruit lyrically, if not lower. And I don’t think anyone has ever been like, “ugh, another song about love.” So this just seems super weird.

 

if you think this forum “destroyed” me you’re a moron, greg

i couldn’t care less about emo liberals on the internet when this is what we are working on lmao

 

I didn't think anyone would take my "its 2007" shit seriously.

You need to chilllllll

 

I was thinking the same thing actually when writing the post. I don’t know why I can tolerate one but not the other (more than tolerate, actually, i think nothing bad of love songs); maybe because one was ingrained while the other is a novel event? I havent really unpacked this yet but I want to say this is a great point and I am aware of the hypocrisy.

 

Hahahaha already back? Pathetic. Hilarious, but pathetic.

 

Yeah.

Hearing a 27-year-old sing "nobody likes you when you're 23" ruins that album for me too. WOOF

 

Those darned emo liberals!

 

I’m just not sure how something being easily relatable is a bad thing. Like, sure, how it’s done will have differences, but I guess I just don’t hold stuff like that against lyrics. I dunno.

 

brb guys just posting pictures of the house i’m flipping to own emo liberals on the internet, this is dignified behavior and not pathetic at all

 

When I turned 33, I just changed the lyrics.

 

Also, if you didn’t care, you would have stopped posting by now. You care a lot.

 

No but really, I was just kidding about it being 2007 again.....

 

I had to go back and read where this all started.

Like, if you don't like the record, then don't listen to it. and you are free to have an opinion, but this is not the place to start fucking drama. had enough of that from 2006-2009. I'm all set.

and we are all VERY AWARE about life outside of this site. If you want to talk politics and bullshit, there's a thread for that.

and I mean all of this in the nicest way possible.

 

I still need to sit down and have a really focused listen to this and pay attention to lyrics, but every time I've listened at work and stuff this is really blowing me away. It's just so much fun and pretty much scratches every itch I'm looking for Fall Out Boy to scratch. I like all of Fall Out Boy's albums, but I'll be surprised if this doesn't end up as my favorite since Folie.

 

hey so the new Fall Out Boy record huh

pretty good right

 

I'm firmly on the "this one line about one of the most globally traumatic and important events of our lifetime" doesn't impact that song much at all, but I'm even more fascinated by the idea that something built into storytelling that most of us have grown up with knowing, the world impacting art, the events of life being part of art, is somehow now seen as a ... bad thing? Like someone reading Emily Dickinson and being like "ugh, another bad poem about the civil war" or Picasso and ... ugh, I guess another civil war. I dunno. I've been drawn to music that reflects life as it's lived my entire life, and punk music specifically. Life impacting art and the poets (kids that didn't make it) authentic reflection of their lived experience ... yeah, can't get there on that ever being a bad thing.

Rather hear that than another song about how their ex sucks.

 

Delivery maybe? Probably just recency and confirmation bias holding hands on my part. I haven’t really seen it be spun in a way yet that I’ve been impressed by, like I would for other relatable things, but I can put fault in the fact that I’m probably not looking hard enough or unfairly judging it haha

That being said, I adore this album. Can’t get enough of it!