might get better with time but I’m not holding my breath. I dunno, just never really kept my attention, felt bland and repetitive. Not bad, just… uninspired, I guess. I dunno, I feel like I’m being really harsh and I really don’t feel harshly against them, I like ‘em, they’re pretty decent. I dunno, I guess we’ll see how I feel in a month or two
RELISTEN1: I don’t know why, I can’t explain it, they should be fine. There’s really nothing specific I can point to, even after a full relisten and lots of reflection, that explains why I feel this way about them. But the more I listen to them the more I just do not like them. Something is off, something is wrong, and I don’t know what and it drives me crazy and makes me like them even less. They just feel so dull and ugly, I don’t know, I don’t like it.
It is so frustrating to not understand why I don’t like them, it makes listening to them so painful. By all rights, I should like them. According to any algorithm or whatever, they’re well within my established tastes and preference. I like the genre, people who like X that I like also like them, all that jazz. And still, when I listen to them I just do not like it. I don’t think it’s his voice, because I feel like his voice is mostly pretty normal, but maybe that’s part of it? Maybe the production feels off somehow, digitized in a way I don’t like? Maybe it’s just the melodies. I feel like that could be it, that something about the melodies just feels off.
But those potential reasons all feel weak, none of them really feel like they get to the heart of why I so much do not like this band. I truly do not know why, and I do not like it. I don’t hate it, I don’t dislike it, I just for whatever reason thoroughly do not like them. A decisive D-
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