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Is this going to work the same way as the depeche mode presale? If so, fuck that. I gotta work to go to these shows, I'm not trying to do more work and spam my friends just to get presale. Besides, I heard this system didn't do much to stop scalpers anyway.

Guess I'll just have a friend cop me a ticket if the blink rumors are true. At this point I'm just excited to finally see Blink. Trying to keep my expectations for a radically different lp set as low as possible.

I posted this on another site but I'll paste it here because I did some thinking after giving the track a few spins.

When I realized that LP were gonna do a pop album, my only hope was that they made some catchy ear candy. I think they accomplished that with this song.

That being said, even though I dig it on a very basic surface level, I know that in a year I probably won't be listening to this. The problem with these songs is that they explode on the scene and then just fizzle out and people move on because there's nothing substantial to keep you coming back.

I think it's becoming pretty evident that LP has peaked with ATS. unless they pull out some magic next album, I'll probably just be a causal LP fan in the future.

Finally, a song that I like on this album!

After the song finished I almost word for word thought this to myself.

Holy shit I actually like it! The lyrics are dumb as hell but the delivery is great! This track is a banger! Just a fun song.

Looks like I'm now 1-3 on OML tracks now

I'm more excited for this than One More Light

Mike, pls stop. You just can't pull off that braggadocio style.

We're 3 songs in and I can't see how exactly they benefited from writing lyrics first. I haven't seen anything that is a huge improvement over their past material.

Hoping the beat is good. Maybe then I can just tune out the lyrics and listen to it like a piece of ear candy.

Oh man. It's becoming more clear every day that this is not going to be an album for me. The good news is that with all the info and leaks trickling in, I am being let down softly rather than all at once on release day.

If they wanted to go the pop route, I was hoping for something along the lines of Purity Ring, Chvrches, The Weeknd, or Bruno Mars. Instead it looks like we're getting material reminiscent of Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, and Twenty One Pilots.

I'm still holding out some hope for OML, Talking to Myself, and Sorry for Now because I quite enjoyed what I've heard of those songs so far.

Such a sad state of affairs for someone that has been following the band since 2000 and has loved most of the bands output since. Well, I guess 17 years wasn't a bad run eh? Better than most!

What a completely unremarkable song. Better than heavy but that's not a huge accomplishment. I felt absolutely nothing listening to this song. It was just there. That might be worse than a bad song because at least a bad song would elicit some emotional response.

Now THAT'S what i'm talking about. More of this please! These small clips (although alternately arranged) sound WAAAAY better than Heavy. Good lyrics, super catchy, (and especially with OML) with lots of heart. Now, I am a little excited for this album.

I know people that went to this show. They definitely DID play a new song. It wasn't broadcast for whatever reason.

Much love and respect to Chester. It's refreshing how honest and open he is.

Can LP go back and replace BID with the version they performed on Facebook? That would be greeeeeat.

I was reading a comment on a different site earlier, and I do think Mike is being a bit unreasonable with the whole "genre is dead" thing. Like, you don't need a justification for making this kind of sound. Just downright say this is what you wanted to do. It's okay to compare works - that's the purpose of genre, to categorize as a means to separate different types of things that allow for comparison. Genre can be deda for sake of listening, but when something is as strikingly poppy as this, call it pop. It's almost like he's afraid of calling it what it is, as if he has something to be ashamed of. Maybe that goes into what Geki said earlier that he was bashing this very music three years ago. I believe the band wouldn't put out something they weren't happy with, regardless of the circumstances. I know it's not the case, but Mike seemingly using that phrase as a scapegoat has been bothering me lately.

lol, I've learned to not take mike seriously before an album drops. Homeboy has a track record of saying some contradictory shit.

What the hell? Are they seriously doing a "collaboration" with Mercedes for the music video? You can't tell me you don't lose some kind of artistic integrity by selling advertising spots in your music video to a car manufacturer.

 

I guess the huge success of the GATS video made them realise how awesome partnering up with a random company for a freaking music video is.

I'd be more upset if they didn't whore their names out to a bunch of other pointless shit (I.e. That infinity speaker, project spark, stage light, transformers toys, 3D figures, nendoroids, etc. etc.). I'm a year there will be no mention of it just like the rest of that stuff nobody asked for.

We went from Mike saying he basically wanted to "save rock music" and all that with THP to a total transformation in sound lol. Billboard said "Why did you make a top 40 pop radio song?" and Mike says "I certainly wouldn't describe it that way"...as if he's like, not admitting what it really is.

Not my type of music, I didn't think they could make a worse single than Burn It Down, but let's see what the rest of the album sounds like.

Whoa, didn't expect so many people to dislike this. After getting called out for being negative on the big two fansites, my opinion seems tame compared to what others here have expressed.

Looks like we got another polarizing album cycle ahead of us. This is gonna get interesting.

New Logo looks like Julien K's CA_X logo

 

COLLAB CONFIRMED

The new JK album was fantastic. They've really come into their own with the CA Noir material

Based on all the clips, I Still think the song sounds generic and boring but that's a pretty cool album title. I can dig that. No strong opinions over the new logo. Same shit but within a hexagon. People are going insane over it though so I guess they're on to something.

Funny how LP is dropping a song tomorrow and going pop while incubus (who's been mellow for a while now) is also dropping a song tomorrow and apparently their new stuff isn't going to be mellow. This is such an ass backwards year of music for me.

Thanks for showing us something we would love but lp would probably never do lol

LP isn't a jam band, that may be a big part of why it won't happen. Foo Fighters on the other hand, those dudes JAM. I've seen numerous foo's members live in other bands and those dudes love to improvise and just rock out to songs on the fly. Great musicians.

 

I've been here all day long and I know who's been here for discussing. suddenly, you came out of nowhere and complaining bout what they released. from your post, you're not discussing. sorry to say that.

Ha! My life doesn't revolve around LP so sorry I am not a regular.

When I have a more favorable opinion of the bands output, i'll post it here first.

Until then, I guess you'll just have to put your big boy pants on and deal with the fact that people have dissenting opinions I suppose.

Before LP release something: *whining*

 

After LP release something: *whining*

 

Calm down. At least we got updates.

I'd say that the whining about everyone else's whining is much more annoying. Let people have dissenting opinions. I always thought the point of a fansite was to discuss the bands material, not jerk each other off about how amazing everything they do is (to be fair, LPL is much better at avoiding this than other fansites).

We've been asked to hide the full thing for now, sorry for that.

Booooooo

They'll definitely tour with twenty one pilots this cycle.

Edit: oops originally quoted the wrong person

Those lyrics sound like some teenager venting on tumblr. Not impressed.