Blink-182 – “Dance With Me” Video • Page 2

I knew it seemed familiar! And NFG, hands down.

 

I think it has as much about it as those singles, vocally more interesting for sure and an absolute fucker of an ear worm!

 

Seems like they wanted a festival song so they created a festival song. It’s fine. Sounds well put together.

 

Good call. NFG, definitely. In my opinion, that record got far too much hate. They basically said they wanted to go back to simple, pure pop-punk songs on that album and then everyone was disappointed when the songs were simple, pure pop-punk songs.

ANYWAY… back to blink. I didn’t think I liked this song as much as the first 3 released upon first listen but ever since (and after 1 listen) I’ve been singing it back. Therefore I can only adduce that it will be an absolute banger. Could have done with this before summer!

 

That chorus could’ve been soooo much better. A rare thing when a chorus is the weakest part of a song. Still solid though, all in all.

 

What a fucking conflicting feeling for me. I feel like Tom is completely crushing these songs; 100x more than I assumed he'd be capable of crushing blink songs at this point, and Mark... is not. The opposite in fact. His parts in More Than You know make zero sense, his parts in Dance With Me kill the vibe- I don't know, it's conflicting for me cause Blink was the jumpstart to MY taste in music. It was third grade, what's my age again on Now Volume 3 (34 now) and I was ALWAYS a Mark guy. I was such a Mark guy it took me forever to fully get into Untitled because I was a piss baby over feeling like there wasn't nearly enough Mark on that record. Plus 44 is my favorite thing he's been part of, cause that album was so real. But for me, starting with Neighborhoods then everything since that has completely gradually dwindled to the point where I don't connect with a damn thing he touches. Nothing feels personal at all- You've been happily married for like over twenty years now, what are these love/break-up songs at this stage? In a less bitchy way of putting it: Yeah, none of his songs feel genuine to me at all. I feel like somebody told him his lyrics were deep and he tried way too hard to run with that compliment. More Than You Know somehow trumps the rest as far as that is concerned in my opinion. Music is subjective, I'm not trying to start a hostile debate or come off like I'm trolling- If you feel the opposite of me, I respect your opinion fully. Just felt like this would be a good little corner to get this off my chest cause it's been there for years.

 

Not understanding where you’re getting the idea that Mark wrote all these lyrics or that it’s a breakup song. (Or not thinking OMT is genuine.)

 

That’s fine, I agree music is subjective. Mark and Tom both come off sincere in some parts and insincere in others, like essentially all human performers. I don’t see any major shift over time from any of these guys; they have put out fun solid rock music for decades. Olay!

 

Not assuming he wrote all the lyrics, or that this is a break-up song I’m saying the lyrics he does write haven’t, for years, felt like they’ve come from any real place at all in my opinion.

 

I can’t put into words how much I hate this take knowing what he’s written about.

 

"Ole"
Just can't take this track seriously with that chorus

 

I mean, his verses in More Than You Know are pretty clearly loosely about his battle with cancer:


Your bed is the last battlefield, a nuclear weapon (being bedridden while undergoing chemo)
Let's search and destroy all the innocent throats we can step on (having his vocal chords fucked by said chemo)
You bury your face underneath halfhearted confessions (the accidental confession of having cancer via instagram story he didn't mean to share with the world)
You poison yourself with the thought I won't love you to death (I'm going to beat you by taking you head on)


I shook all the leaves from your tree and left you with nothing (hair loss)
I can't see the colors you see, they won't see me coming (cancer being unexpected)
The ivy is starting to creep, it grows through the awnings (IVs being used for chemo, allowing the radiation to spread through his body)
It's dawning on me that I shouldn't be trying at all (I could be beaten by this)

 

Let's face it, it's going to pop off live.

 

Probably meant for live shows

 

I wish they would just go back to their roots with meaningful chorus lyrics like “na na na na na na” instead

 

Or the woahs... Can't forget the lyrics where they just went "woah"

 

Fair comparison, but I was 11 when that track came out. I find it much tougher to ignore lyrical filler nowadays.
Plus I do dislike the word "Ole"

 

Of the 3 released, this is definitely my least favorite.

 

Reminded me of Say Anything's intro to ...Is A Real Boy. But while that one is iconic, this intro is lame.

 

The record begins with a song of…. Masturbation?

 

And the record begins...with a song of rebellion

That's it?

: )

 

Reading people’s analysis of this song is mind numbing. My god, it’s not that deep. You either like a song or you don’t. lol

 

The song is one of the best in blink catalog. Insta classic.

 

Bridge is the best part of all the singles so far