So looking at what's new on the hard
rock charts just because I'm curious when I find this band sitting at
#8. I wish I could like popular music again but people make it so
hard for me :'( The latest entry of popular metal bands that just
don't impress me is Falling in Reverse with their song "alone".
It wasn't a horrible idea to try mixing
screamo, dub-step and club rap but failing to do any of them well
becomes painful to listen to.
Lyrically speaking, a rapped verse
with the rap cliches bragging being cool and having skills and money
moving to a feeble growled pre chorus of threats fallowed by a
monotone chorus about friends and never wanting to be alone it's just
so.... pathetic. And finally, the lame visual tropes of big money as
seen by helicopter ride to ware house (Stryper did almost the same
video 30 years ago) and back off I'm a bad ass rock star fashion of a
Skrilllex hair do proudly displaying a fully tattooed scalp while do
the "L" to the forehead grrrrrrrr. Every thing about this
is screams contrived, cliche and weak.
It's the weak part that irritates me
the most. If I had to draw a parallel do one of my high school
generation it would be Limp Bizkit. The thing is you could apply all
these criticisms to them 10 years ago except the weak part. Limp
bizkit at least had energy and some attitude. Falling in reverse on
the other hand is too repressed to be energetic anthem, too polished
to be reckless rock song, too abrasive to have any mass appeal and
too disingenuous to connect to emotionally.
Long story short (too late), I really
can't find one redeemable quality here. Every body, the lesson is
clear. Stop listening, watching, sharing and buying. Let this band
die!!! We can't see better metal music chart if we let this type of
band thrive.
