Dear Ryan:
It is on this hopeless, cloudy day in Arizona that I choose to write to you, apropos of your three-out-of-10 rating redolent to our 2001 album, Bleed American.
You see, cloudy days aren’t supposed to happen in Arizona. We know how to deal with them for their non-frequency. I wrote a bunch of pop songs I thought were good. You seemed to think otherwise. I guess time will tell.
Well, if if makes you feel any better, I was robustly heartbroken. My heart had been put through a running wood chipper, if you will. It would, I think, take quite the disguise to mistake the emotional centerpiece, “Cautioners”; and its hazy, trippy second half in which the listener thinks the song is fading out into dissonance, only to find it jolt, like an electric shock hitting an airplane, back into the chorus of “You change your mind come Monday / And turn your back on me / You take your steps away with hesitance / You take your steps away from me”.
It seemed to offend you that we were straight-A students. Well, first of all, I’d like to presage my upcoming rhetoric by insisting that I was not a straight-A students. By the way, if you need a tutor for getting through high school calculus, I don’t know anybody, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Anyway, I couldn’t help but notice that if you’d achieved a little more life experience, you might be more able to abide the genuine, bona fide brand of emotion being proffered on this album, in “If You Don’t, Don’t”; in “Get it Faster”; in “Your House” and elsewhere. And those accusing of lack of dynamic might consult the title track opener, and its tongue-in-cheek prescription drug references, and “The Authority Song.” Anyway, if you’re still accusing us of having made a stuffy, uniform romance album, I’d like to whole-heartedly recommend to you Hozier, in the 20-20’s, and some women’s basketball, while I’m at it, all the better for curtailing that “poor heart” that you’ll never steal from yourself again.
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