Question of the Day: What sort of direction do you hope Metric goes with their fifth album?
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Hardcore Black Metal with White Girl Gangsta Rap.
But seriously... I was talking to Megan about this, and I think a super electric, ambient CD that are really big and empty sounding and kinda like Twilight Galaxy or On A Slow Night and just really heartbroken sounding. It would make for kinda boring live shows, and it'll never happen, but I can always dream, right?
Is epic a direction? Because I'm sure that's the direction they'll go. Oh sweetest Buddha, I'm SO FREAKING PUMPED. *dances around and does cartwheels and has seizures and runs and skips and grows flowers and butterflies wherever he steps because HE'S THAT FREAKING PUMPED!!!!!!!*
I'd rather not think about this yet. As Gerard so helpfully pointed out to me earlier, this thing won't be out for a long time, since they're in the pre-writing stages.
Fantasies proved that it's bad to get too excited too soon!
Isn't there an interview floating around where Jimmy said the next album would be "death metal" or something?...maybe "speed metal"? I can't quite remember - bonus points and praise to anyone who tracks that one down for me again! - but I think the point is they want to keep changing. I imagine it going along the same vein they've been going so far. I see Emily playing the electric guitar again (she seemed to be loving it at the show I went to) but keeping everything super tight like it was in Fantasies. I see them flirting with the harder, edgier corner of mainstream.
Being the hopeless nostalgic I can be, I'd love if they took the feeling of Old World Underground, slicked and tightened it up (because chances are they're not going to rough it up), and broadcast it into this fifth album. I want the unapologetic politics of "I.O.U" again now that I feel like I grasp it!
HOWEVER, I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVED all three "B-Sides" of Fantasies..."Waves", "Black Sheep" AND "The Gates". I felt like it was just the right combination of old and new, so if their newest album keeps going in that direction I'd be ecstatic.
As long as they don't make a "safe" album I'll be happy. But something tells me they wouldn't go all mainstream on us despite how well Fantasies has been accepted by more mainstream type of places.
No... I think it will be even more accessible to a broader audience. Metric have always said they want to make music for the masses, so I can't imagine why they would suddenly target it to a specific audience.
Hardcore Black Metal with White Girl Gangsta Rap.
But seriously...
I was talking to Megan about this, and I think a super electric, ambient CD that are really big and empty sounding and kinda like Twilight Galaxy or On A Slow Night and just really heartbroken sounding. It would make for kinda boring live shows, and it'll never happen, but I can always dream, right?
Is epic a direction? Because I'm sure that's the direction they'll go. Oh sweetest Buddha, I'm SO FREAKING PUMPED. *dances around and does cartwheels and has seizures and runs and skips and grows flowers and butterflies wherever he steps because HE'S THAT FREAKING PUMPED!!!!!!!*
I'd rather not think about this yet. As Gerard so helpfully pointed out to me earlier, this thing won't be out for a long time, since they're in the pre-writing stages.
Fantasies proved that it's bad to get too excited too soon!
Isn't there an interview floating around where Jimmy said the next album would be "death metal" or something?...maybe "speed metal"? I can't quite remember - bonus points and praise to anyone who tracks that one down for me again! - but I think the point is they want to keep changing. I imagine it going along the same vein they've been going so far. I see Emily playing the electric guitar again (she seemed to be loving it at the show I went to) but keeping everything super tight like it was in Fantasies. I see them flirting with the harder, edgier corner of mainstream.
Being the hopeless nostalgic I can be, I'd love if they took the feeling of Old World Underground, slicked and tightened it up (because chances are they're not going to rough it up), and broadcast it into this fifth album. I want the unapologetic politics of "I.O.U" again now that I feel like I grasp it!
HOWEVER, I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVED all three "B-Sides" of Fantasies..."Waves", "Black Sheep" AND "The Gates". I felt like it was just the right combination of old and new, so if their newest album keeps going in that direction I'd be ecstatic.
As long as they don't make a "safe" album I'll be happy. But something tells me they wouldn't go all mainstream on us despite how well Fantasies has been accepted by more mainstream type of places.
No... I think it will be even more accessible to a broader audience. Metric have always said they want to make music for the masses, so I can't imagine why they would suddenly target it to a specific audience.
I second Joey's post!
;D