Say Anything ...Is Committed (May 24th, 2024) • Page 39

Max doesn't even sing for almost the entire first minute of Molly, and when he does come in, you wish he just let the crowd handle the whole song. Dude sounds like he belongs in one of those anti-smoking ads I'd see on Cartoon Network as a kid.

 

3:36 onward of Writhing South is honestly so fucking funny.

 

Max isn't a complex singer and these songs are not hard to sing it all. Makes so sense at all. Just sing your own damn songs.

 

No joke - "I'm going to need you to sing the whole first verse of Molly while I vape"

 

If I heard, just as examples, Anthony Green or Hayley Williams struggling this much, it would make some level of sense. They write shit that is hard to perform and regularly pushes the limits of their range. Having an off show, or even tour, makes sense now and then (though I think both tend to be fantastic live). But with Max, yeah, anyone can sing along to these songs, so why is the dude who wrote them struggling this bad? I knew the next Say Anything release would be baffling regardless but I did not think it would be the ONE fairly respected album the band has getting absolutely shit on by modern Max.

 

Was it the clip that's been going around where he tells the crowd to sing the first verse so he can vape?

:edit: I see it's already been posted

 

Genuinely might be one of the worst live albums I’ve ever heard.

 

He probably could have hired a 15 year old with garageband to make it sound not bad.

Or a 39 year old that posts way too much on chorus and would gladly have done it, lol.

 

Semi-unrelated, but listening to the second of the mewithoutYou live albums right now and goddamn this is how you do a live album. Impossible bar to hit but can’t believe how much lower quality the Say Anything one is.

 

If anyone’s looking to make their ears bleed this morning

 

Laughed out loud when I read this post after clicking the notification, thank you for that

 

It’s actually unlistenable, up there with two tongues 2 as the worst sounding thing he’s put out

 

Just sampled that and wow that’s literally painful to my ears

 

What even is that

 

I saw that artwork and thought it was some kind of call back to …is a real boy

 

This is the most recently divorced release I’ve ever seen. Bad covers with a weird title that calls back to the album most people care about in a completely meaningless way.

 

i jokingly thought to myself that it'd be funny if my girls was a horrendous animal collective cover so i had to skim it to find out and...it is lmao

 

Oh yea they’re all covers

abominations

 

Someone really needs to tell Max that grunting into a microphone is not the same as fronting a band

 

It’s almost like he knows people hate this version of SA and is trying to destroy its legacy. I have no other explanation.

 

Yea the mind boggling thing is that the instrumentation is fine and he could easily sing as well or comparable as he does on IDOTG, so obviously it's a choice of I know my fans don't like this but I like it and they should like it anyway. I'd love to see him actually explain it and address it. He just seemed so self aware of his own music when he was young, and now, like just weird. I mean, if it's the music he wants to make more power to him, just kinda wish he left the "Say Anything" brand to itself and its melodic cuteness so to speak. Did this stuff under Maxim Mental and didn't mix the two.

 

I have never seen anyone more divorced in my liiiiife lmao Jesus fucking CHRIST

 

Weird that these are covers but he has his name as the songwriter in Spotify.
The last song is a Strokes cover, who does the other two originally?

Also I couldnt listen to more than 20 seconds of each song before turning them off

 

Animal Collective's My Girls, don't know the other one