Emo music

[emmelinemay]

So I keep hearing Panic At The Disco's song 'Nine in the Afternoon' which doesn't make much sense to me, although I quite like it. I decided that it might possibly be about drugs, because of the line 'your eyes are the size of the moon'.

Then I saw the video.

It's definitely about drugs.

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[sushidog.livejournal.com]

There was a thing on T4 at the weekend with them, talking about it; apparently the title is because they were in a windowless recording studio for hours and lost all sense of time.

I was amused to see a big SRS discussion on some emo forum about how it was a bad title, because 9 o' clock is either morning or evening; you can't _have_ 9 in the afternoon, so clearly it was just wrong.

Um... yeah. OK.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

That's another reason I thought it might be about drugs - where time goes all weird and you lose your sense of time passing.

But the studio thing makes a lot of sense - I've experienced the same thing in overnight recording sessions. You come out blinking into the early morning sun having been working all night and sleeping at weird times feeling almost jet lagged and your body clock is screwed.

I get very confused when people have discussions like that - that demonstrate they've got no sense of context. The same people usually think 'irony' is ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

oh, that video is so reminiscent of the beatles, i love it!

ahem.

there're a lot of shades of a hard day's night and sgt pepper in there.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

It's painfully Beatles, isn't it?

I actually really quite like it too...

[tuv23.livejournal.com]

yep yep

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

I totally get the studio thing. Been there seen it done it.
Drugs may or may not have played a part for some of the people involved.
Sadly, as a singer, drugs never play a part (timing, vocal chords, etc!) but sleep deprivation has the same effect! Oh, and food/daylight/real life deprivation also has a real effect on your perception of reality.
I miss those days!
But...
...I SO know where they are coming from!

[niknar.livejournal.com]

teenytiny says its not about drugs so im reckoning it aint.

[elle-is-for.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether to be ashamed of that statement or not....

[shackers.livejournal.com]

nothing to do with your post, just thought you;d like to know we saw Mars in the sky tonight! Bright sparkly red. And we weren't doing drugs..............

[elle-is-for.livejournal.com]

nah, their new single That Green Gentleman is about drugs :-)

NitA is about them spending a few crazy years being omg emo popstars then going back to their old practise space to write new material and getting back to their roots and stuff.

at this point I've actually read so much press for that fucking album I could do their interviews for them :-)

incidentally that album is THE SHIT. buy it, you won't be disappointed

[tuv23.livejournal.com]

Had a little listen to Sargeant Pepper before they sat down, I reckon...