Also, this was in the summer after my junior year of high school when I was at peak Coldplay Stan and I thought it was a masterpiece. It's 10 years later and I don't really listen to Coldplay anymore but I still think it's their best. It's a pretty big feat when any established band can make a whole album where every song sounds uniqly different. Especially when that band is Coldplay and they just came off an album that somehow sounded like they decided to do 12 different versions of the same song and all in the same musical style. These back to back releases should be studied. Both huge commercial hits, sometimes for many of the same reasons, but presented in such starkly different ways.
I'm pretty sure the lyric referring to Fox News is "And then the fox became god" or at the very least the line about a carnival of idiots on show. Either way, it's a lot less subtle than the one you pointed out.
First listen through, I like it, but I'm scared it won't hold up to multiple listens. Musically it's pretty engaging but lyrically it may be his weakest. We not only don't get that many great lines but we don't even get any "so stupid they're great" ones either. Hopefully it goes the other way from what I'm expecting and it gets better on repeat listens.
I just bought a digital piano and I'm not going to say it was SOLELY so I could learn to play "House of Woodcock" but I'd be lying if I said that was a significant factor.
It's still hard to believe my favorite director and my favorite member of my favorite band are close collaborators on some of my favorite movies. Sentences like that don't exist often, in any context.
If Jonny doesn't win I swear to God that every single piece of copier paper in this town is going to have the F-word on it. The F-word. You have one day.
One doesn't simply paint a bowl at a friends middle school birthday party and then not use it for every subsequent bowl of Special K with Strawberries. Its integral, it gets its own shoutout.
If all we got out of this whole comeback was How Do You Sleep then it would be totally worth it. Thankfully the rest of the album is great as well. Still not totally sold on American Dream but it already feels much better in context. I'm sure a few more listens will sort me out.
I definitely don't want Win Butler laughing at his own "jokes" in a ClickHole parody video. But this feels really flat, and not in the deadpan ClickHole format way but in the, "Oh wait, this guy isn't naturally funny" way.
This is one of those things where if he had actually just improvised some humorous stuff it would be a little more convincing and thus funny. Unfortunately it seems more likely that the ClickHole team prepared all of this stuff and he's mostly just reciting it. He doesn't seem to really think it's funny therefore we don't find it that funny.
That moment when you timidly listen to new Taylor Swift and thankfully don't like it it which means you won't have to reckon with your many years of insufferable condescension towards her just yet.
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