Review

October, 24th 2016

Indie rock, offered by this band Two Door Cinema Club fits pretty much this movie. The weltschmertz is the best word to describe the essence of the particular song. According to the words of the band members, this German word is destined to describe a person, who lives absolutely not in line with the main mass of the people in the society, can’t understand them, can’t normally stick to their interests and there are no mutual understanding between these two. The song is absolutely it – afar from conventional pop, avant-garde item, filled with high-pitched notes of the singer’s voice, whose idol was currently deceased show biz people Prince and David Bowie – who, according to the soloist, were pioneers in what they did, went at new trails, creating them and were totally weltschmertz.
This song was released in 2016, but did not manage to reach highs – the maximum was the 39th position of the Billboards’ alternative list in 2016. It was one of two songs, opening their third album, which were written and released before the release of it, so these two became the headlining promoters of the upcoming thing.
The essence of the song is rather disappointing – the same shallow sufferings of the weak man towards the strong female, who left him for his mistakes in the past. Now he drinks and suffers. Like a Goth girl of 14 years, who doesn’t know yet where to put her life and feels like wasting her time in vain. The absolutely unbearable high-toned voice only aggravates a not complimentary overall impression created by this item.
But that’s not all of the lyrics. Then he continues – he wants she came into his thoughts tonight, so he would feel oneself happy; he would also like to change what he did and so on. He apologizes and feels himself addicted to this particular personality, not understanding yet that there is a huge pond of various fishes around. Then, closer to an end, this lowered sufferer rhymes ‘generation’ and ‘information’ for so long that we suspect him only increasing the length of the song by means of rhyming words for no other obvious reason. He ends with the same pink snots: oh, I apologize, can’t live without you, don’t get mad at me. You know pussycat? This is a kind of person, only without ‘cat’ in the end. Sick.
Well, maybe we are exaggerating a little and this fellow is simply misunderstood by the world around? Every observer of their new album, released in October 2016, agrees that they took much inspiration from the soul-experimental – not too financial music, like the Scissor Sisters & Bee Gees, apart from already mentioned two inspirers. They also agree that this cutting-ear song is falsetto, too, which, as you all may guess, is too ignoble for a guy to have. At least, for a guy with so unpretentious outward appearance as their leader. Looking at him, you would give your best suggestion that he better matches to a bartender, office clerk or a seller in the comic store that the singer. Reference: Wikipedia, NME, DIY