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Loved Wastelands live when I saw them in June ‘17, Chester was on fire during the bridge.

Agree

THP promoting campaign was a mess: Mike going “fuck pop” mode hating on Chvrches and stuff like that, then touring with 30STM (a band that I love but that is the perfect example of rock gone pop), then literally giving up on playing more than half of the record live after saying “it’s going to be great to play those songs live”, and then dropping Heavy, the closest thing to Disney pop the band has ever done. At least now Mike is coherent, he seems to like what he does, and doesn’t try to disguise stuff like “Happy Endings” for what it’s not (a super trendy aiming for young audiences, suitable for commercial spots tune).

Mike was a class act as always here. I’d have torn apart someone who literally said he hated Sharp Edges for being a cheap and cheesy Ed Sheeran ripoff, considering how intimate and self revealing that song was for Chester. I mean, one thing is being critic towards music, the other is being borderline disrespectful to the artist. I don’t like Happy Endings but I’d never make a 10 Minutes video making jokes about it. Kudos to Mike. I respect Fantano for his passion in talking about music but I stopped caring about his videos at a certain point because he tries too hard to convince people that music is objective, like it’s not objective that Battle Symphony is a bad song, it’s objective that it’s less complex and elaborated instrumentally than 7empest by Tool. Taste is not objective.

Great interview ! Really liked it, love these insights between 2 clever music nerds

THIS. But when Foo Fighters drop 3 meh consecutive records those same people are like “ROCK LEGENDS 9/10, true masters”

Yeah and at least I’m happy the response to Mike’s solo stuff and the new song is generally positive. I mean, at least some people learned that it’s not POP=SHIT. Also, you can express distaste for a song/album/band without being offensive, I don’t like Happy Endings but I’d never act like IT’S SHIT/GARBAGE/MIKE SHOULD STOP MAKING MUSIC or stuff like that, I’d be a childish stupid idiot.

It’d be cool to have female collabs but maybe not a stable sixth female member, I don’t know. It’s always the same discussion: a new member entering in a band with a 20 + years old relationship, story and dynamics with the weight of taking Chester’s place. It’s really hard.

I’d reeeeeally like Mike/LP to go on a weird road, experimenting even with a female vocalist (nothing against to it).

Wow, I find “Fine” vastly superior to this song and I like Open Door demo more than this song too. The final version with the fans singing is on the same level to me. I’m happy to see that so many fans are enjoying the tune and happy to see Mike channeling positive energy in a new song, but I’ll wait for something that fits my taste better 😊

Yeah he said he didn’t care about the music and lyrics. I would have never thought Fantano would have interviewed Mike, we’ll see what happens.

Don’t know if it’s a young/old thing, but I do like Invisible a lot more than this song (comparing pop to pop, it wouldn’t make sense to compare non pop songs with this one).

Yeah Victimized is basically a “demo” of KTTK, its prime form

Next Mike song title “LANDING IN THE NEEDLEDROP” confirmed.

Wow I’m really glad you guys enjoy it so much. Again another proof of tastes variety in LP fanbase.

Anyone = any pop singer/producer. I’m not insulting Mike, but this is really not for me

I’ve heard the full thing right now... it’s the bottom for me, Mike is barely present in the first 2:30 minutes... the chorus is repeated like 6 times, sounds like a generic pop tune anyone could write ... I wasn’t expecting much but pheeeew this is really forgettable, considering who is Mike and what he did in the last 2 decades.

The sequence COG> Victimized> RU is mind blowing. They basically had 2 similar songs in terms of tone and vibe and then slapped Victimized in the middle. I love when LP does crazy like that

Lol I like the comparison. I acknowledge that ATS is mixed better, It SOUNDS better yeah (like you can hear every single sound on Robot Boy), but i’m not so annoyed by how songs like IMR and IBG sound. Maybe I’m not as sensible as you on stuff like this 😊

IMR sounds awesome IMO

The same guy who mixed LT and some tracks of OML ? (IIRC “talking to myself”)

Not LP related was pretty obvious seen that there was his signature on the “teaser” mini video. Not being a new album is interesting

It’s definitely not gonna be new instrumentals, because it would not make sense to label it as “big news” since we got 3 DF records and all the streams, so... I guess new song

In the beginning it sounds similar to scratching to me but it could easily be what you say.

In my remains ? It had a weirder intro IIRC.