Real Friends - Composure (July 13, 2018) Album • Page 16

blink too.

 

honestly it just sounds like normal pop punk stuff, lyrics have never been their strong suit lol

 

it all just seems like music for 12yr olds.

the lyrics are abysmal. i just don't understand pop punk. it's like when 30+yr old actors make tv shows for children.

 

Lighten up.. they are sad boys

 

This seems like a really weird line of criticism. The lyrics are earnest & fairy inoffensive. There's no wordplay or social analysis, but that's not what people really expect from pop-punk anyways.

Like the highest charting pop songs right now include lyrics like:

Like I hate resorting to what-about-ism, but I just legitimately don't think it's possible to have a universal standard of lyrical quality, because at the end of the day, even the simplest or most offensive lyrics will find an audience and resonate.

 

i guess i just expect more from them. they have such a large fanbase i would expect them to mature but i always expect profound poetry from lyricists so i'll take the blame on this one.

 

Yeah you def should take the blame for having such a bad take.

 

also what is this take? who else is supposed to make tv?????

 

If you are not the EXACT age of the lyrics and fanbase you create i don't want it!!!

 

New EP is out today.

 

The other 2 songs are okay. They released the best 2 right out of the gate.

 

I booked the first show they played after that came out. Maybe the only show I ever booked that actually made money. Cannot believe that was ten years ago.

 

That 2011-2013 EP era was fun. The Sleepy Eyes x Bony Knees days haha

 

Weren't you the sound guy for some of rob's basement shows?

 

Yeah, we used my PA for a bunch of those. That Real Friends / Knuckle Puck / Citizen / Turnover / Light Years basement show was unreal. Every couple years someone stumbles on that flier and it goes a little viral again.

 

Yeah dude - that show was absolutely insane! We were playing 500 in the street and Mat Kerekes came out of no where and headbutt the football.

I can't remember if this picture was from that show, or another RF/KP show at his house, but we all ended up matching and took a picture on his stoop:


(Kevin Maida asked me how I got such perfect cuffs in my khaki cutoffs and I told him about the miracle of ironing.)

 

Not a huge fan of all those bands but woooooow that would have been a sick show to attend

 

It was the summer of 2012 and the absolute peak of my fandom of that scene. Citizen played "Tracking Time" (after the entire crowd chanted for it) and Turnover played "Sasha." Most of the crowd went outside to smoke during Light Years and I felt so bad for them.

 

Oh wow. I only became a “fan” of Real Friends/Knuckle Puck/Citizen (the latter two I’m not huge on hence the quotes) in 2013? I wanna say? so I wouldn’t have gone even if I was able to due to not knowing them but that’s awesome. I saw Turnover during that era and it was a lot of fun.

 

haha yeah the line-up seems insane until you put the show into context. Turnover was still a title fight rip-off band. RF was touring on Everyone That Dragged You Here, but it less than a year old, and KP only had a demo EP. Later that fall they'd release Give Up and start to gain a real following.

 

New song

 

Song is catchy but for all the highs and lows, Dan was just the heart of this band for me. Now they just sound like any other faceless pop punk band. They had a good style going on Composure that feels absent here.

 

This seems like a "douchey" take to me, and it is also my exact take. I want to like this so bad, and I don't dislike it but I've never gone back to a new song. I also know if Dan was vocalling it'd be a jam for me.

The new singers good, it sounds like real friends and yet the uniqueness the band had is just amiss for me. Hoping they have success though.