Soeffingnaive92

Yikes, I strongly hope UFTB doesn't represent the future of the band... one of my least fav songs by them ever

About the other albums after ATS, i don’t see them going out with big box sets for them, they are very far and away and didn’t have the pop culture impact of the first 3, like, can you picture THP20 box set in 2034 ? Hmmm lol

A huge boxset in the style of M20 or HT20 ? Hmmm no, there's a new phase and would be kinda weird seeing how things are going in the band right now to "overshadow" Emily with a Chester - era big release. A celebration of MTM with maybe some unreleased stuff but on a smaller scale ? Maybe, I hope so. The band and the label know how beloved a nd crazy big MTM was, so... I try not to be too optimistic tho

If we are getting MTM20 I think it's gonna be a very low profile release, I don't think they are gonna put out stuff with unreleased Chester vocals in a periodo of time where they will most likely be close to put out LP9 with Emily

Yeah like, we are talking about 6 years of work (2019-2024), in the same amount of time the band put out LT (Recharged), THP and OML

They are probably sittingon thousands of demos, some with other singers we'll never get to hear.

I think that they're not gonna play it ever again, first and foremost because band members were vocal about not liking it that much, and second because it's really a deep cut that belongs to the "Chester" side of their discograpy, where the lyrics were so personal about abuse and trauma, one of their darker songs

This tour was the biggest missed opportunity to see my 2 fav bands collab, Jared coming in on a LP song or vice versa (Chester on The Kill ?) would have been sort of a dream come true. Kinda sad it did not happen

There’s no blame in my words, i just find it weird on a persona level, I never said that I want them to mention Chester at every show or dedicate a song to him every night. As I said, I totally understand what Mike said about the song OML, and I totally agree with him. I also wouldn’t want a celebration at every show via a song or a long “part” dedicated to him. TO ME it feels just weird that in the whole tour he was mentioned ONCE and seems that Mike wants to point out that an ambiguous song is absolutely not about him even vaguely. That’s all

There's no blame on the band, just notice that done this way feels a bit dry, like, imagine just Mike go "This was Chester's fav song so make some noise for him" before Papercut, that would be nice without being "too much".

That’s what I am trying to say, there’s a wide spectrum of stuff that stands between the two opposites of not mentioning Chester even once briefly and the other side of playing OML every night with a giant picture of him in the back.

I mean if your iconic singer for 20+ years dies by suicide it's kind of expected. I get the feeling he expressed on stuff like About You and other songs but it's kinda weird that Chester almost became a taboo. I repeat that, I didn't expect or even want a song about him on a new LP record, but if a song COULD be a sort of homage to him without being too direct why not? Why going "no it's not and the numbers on the song are not connected to his birthday", it's not disrespectful, I'd never say that, just bizarre

Doesn't need to be like that, nobody would ask about stuff off FZ since there's clearly no nod to Chester and that's super fine, starting over and not get stuck in the past grief after 7/8 years, but we are talking about letting the door open to an interpretation about just 1 song.

As a lawyer myself too, I get that there could be legal issues about mentioning him on a song or using his name or his vocals on new stuff, but it feels kinda weird that they push back every single reference about him. And I totally get that even if it was legally possible they wouldn't want to put on a new record like FZ a song like LFAA, totally understandable, but Mike responding something like "LYF is about not letting our loved ones fade away and keeping them always with us, it's dedicated to the memory of all our loved ones that are not here anymore" would have been more kind.

Mike always pointing out tha something is not dedicated/related to Chester feels a bit weird to me. Nothing against it, I have a lot of respect for Mike and the band and what they did to celebrate Chester, classy and well thought... But this urgency to push back any connection to Chester is a bit strange IMO. By the way, totally agree/understand about not playing OML now