Hit the Lights – “Believe in Me” • Page 2

I miss the days with Colin that was amazing stuff.

 

Not too bad at all

 

Wow, you guys are having such visceral reactions. I just saw it as a fun song, not really drawn one way or the other. Yeah, mix/master is bad. Yeah, vocals are buried, but there is most definitely a hook in that chorus. The riff is straight easycore, which I can get not being into (I personally love this style of pop punk, I find it super fun and low stakes), but the riff is pretty good for what it is trying to achieve.

I understand this is not even approaching the adventurous stuff on Invicta, but this song doesn't commit some cardinal sin.

 

Loved everything they’ve done, but this song, just production to the vocals is a mess

 

"Yeah, the song sounds bad. Yes, the vocals aren't great. Yes, the music isn't either.

...But it's not a BAD song."

 

I feel like Hit The Lights is pulling their own Taylor Swift-style move here. And the results are equally bad.

 

If the production was better it’d be great

 

That's not what I said but okay.

I said the vocals were buried in the mix, but not poorly written/performed (which, I infer you meaning from saying "vocals aren't great"). I said that I understand a lot of people have trouble with this kind of pop punk but I personally love it (as in, I get it, this whole exercise is highly subjective but I find the music to be very enjoyable).

Let me be clear: I like listening to this song even though I recognize that it is a flawed product. I just didn't find the flaws nearly as problematic as everyone else.

The song does sound bad sonically though, you don't have that part wrong about what I said.

 

I really liked the last album but this is not good. The production is terrible and his vocals are hugely grating, both the tone and the melodies.

 

Christ that bridge, even the quiet bits sound fucking horrible. Awful production.

 

There are parts of it I like, but not enough to listen to the rest of the song ever again.

 

Did they produce this themselves? Not being sarcastic, asking seriously

 

i can't imagine being surprised that a hit the lights song is bad

 

Song might not be good but it's funny seeing people jump on their high horse to dump on HTL. This band might not be anything revolutionary but when did it become cool to hate on them and people that like them as if they're cancerous? At worst they're an average punk pop band anymore. Comments like this are too edgy for me though.

 

Seriously!!

Still love these guys after all this time. This is different for sure but I will always check out everything they put out. I actually enjoyed this. Looking forward to the next one :D

 

There's only one comment (directly above yours—not sure if you meant to quote it) in two pages that says anything negative about the band as a whole. No one is "dumping" on HTL. What we are saying is that this particular song is absolute garbage. If anything, the fact that people are disappointed by the song says the opposite about the band. We expect better because we respect/like HTL.

 

this is "edgier" than anything in my post by a mile, lol. they're not cancerous, i just think they're awful.

 

I get what you are saying but it's not just this thread, any time there is news about new music from them ever since the first single from Summer Bones there's been these replies. "I can't imagine being surprised that a hit the lights song is bad" is dumping on HTL is it not? People are entitled to their own opinions of course but acting like you're too good to fathom someone being a fan of HTL is just odd to me.

 

I genuinely loved their music up until this song, really. So I can't agree with what you're saying. I also thought the majority of the Thief Club stuff was bad too. This is worse than that.

 

I don't see that as dumping on HTL at all. "Yet another shit release from HTL...this band is terrible" is dumping on them. Having positive expectations for a song then being disappointed with the release indicates that you think the band is pretty good.

 

He said he thinks they're awful in his next post.

 

Right, but that's one guy in this entire thread. You're acting like it's a general trend, and I'm saying that, at least in this discussion, I don't see it at all.

 

I straight up love everything they've done. But this. First record, SSSF, the EP, Invicta,Summer Bones, love it all. This is just a bad song man. Production to the jumble of an arrangement vocally on the way down. It just is.

 

I didn't say it was a good song or anything like that, that poster's holier than thou condensation towards people for being fans of HTL just bugs me.

 

Can't hear the vocals in the chorus. Verses are fun though.