sultan2075 wrote:Prescott wrote:sultan2075 wrote:
That's... pretty terrible, actually. Really.
That just about nails it. It's derivative to the point of being horrifying; it's imitation without anything else being brought to the party. On the other hand, at least no one is trying to claim that they're actually the Sisters in disguise...
The stupid video on YouTube was not made by the band!
You dismissed those lyrics out of hand without so much as the most basic critical analysis.
You have always had an agenda and your last comment proves it. Why are you going out of your way to dissuade people from checking out The Merry Thoughts? Got a bone to pick?
An "agenda"? Simmer down. I have an opinion you disagree with, and I have expressed it. That qualifies as an agenda? I happen to think that such blatant artistic imitation is contemptible. It's crap. Some people like crap. That's their prerogative. Some people don't like crap. That's their prerogative too. Some people express opinions about crap. Some people can't recognize crap. It takes all kinds to make this world go 'round.
And why should I waste my time on critical analysis of garbage? It's not like this is the first time I've ever heard the band. The lyrics are largely a shallow recycling of tropes from Von's own work.
Influence is one thing. Imitation is another. Rosetta Stone, I think, was too heavily influenced by TSOM, but they rise above mere imitation, which makes them vastly better than this other band.
I love people who pretend that exclaiming that something is "crap" is less a waste of time than giving solid reasons for thinking so. Obviously a constructive conversation about The Merry Thoughts is impossible with you.
Convictions are worth more than opinions. Opinions do not require reasons while beliefs and convictions do.
The rift. The rift between family and it's influence on the musicians and lyricists at hand. The use of extrapolation, the use of mimicry to expose and renounce. The ideological differences between people that have grown so far apart. The unveiling of true personages through assumed characters and false identities.
A war. Of words and borrowed bits of old poetry used against one another.
The use of another's vocation that hides their true vocation from the public against them.
I'm talking about songs wielded like swords and guns and finally ICMBs.
But I guess either you just don't understand, or you do and don't want anyone else to.
"... because we're that kind of people."