What.

[quinara]

This is the Arctic Monkeys' new song. Can you tell it's by them? The accents still come out somewhat, I suppose, but since the lyrics are so simple a five year old could write them I think we'd all be forgiven for thinking it was a filler track by some random nobody band. I mean, maybe I should have seen this was coming after Humbug, where the words were starting to just get pointlessly obscure, but Alex Turner is meant to be a lyricist - once upon a time he was rhyming 'ghetto' with 'stiletto' and telling amazing little stories. Now there's this?? (Also, where is that they're pratting around? If it's anywhere near San Francisco that is damned ironic considering a certain old and dear song of theirs...)

Sigh. I was really looking forward to their new album. :(

PS. Oh, look, here's another song about bricks; funny how there's slightly more to it...

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[laeria]

I wanna steal your soul
I wanna rock and roll

... well. This is considerably depressing.

(I'm not even much of a fan, but Old Yellow Bricks is one of my favourite songs ever, as is Do Me a Favour. But, while they're usually hit or miss, this is just "miss and end up in Mainland China".)

[quinara]

*nods nods nods* Less agreed on the quantity of miss generally, but this most definitely is. A lot.