Music has meaning where you want it to have meaning. So does art. To me, it seems like Killjoys/Danger Days is commentary on society and its ills/ridiculousness/over saturation hence the dumb as fuck quote and the song being fun and loud. These things can be related, it's not necessarily one or the other. Music doesn't have to be dour and sad to have meaning and a message doesn't have to be spelled out and I think MCR is learning that with this. But that's me and also that we're going off of one song and video here to try and figure out the whole album, it's not going to happen. NME's interpretation can be different but you have to decide for yourself what these things means to you.
And he was shrugging in that answer because he had answered it earlier in the interview and was annoyed. I'm assuming we're talking about the NOVA FM interview, correct?
"Music doesn't have to be dour and sad to have meaning" Yes, ITA! Of course it doesn't.
"...and a message doesn't have to be spelled out and I think MCR is learning that with this." Great point, both in general and about the band.
And didn't the last review we read say that we won't get complete answers about Killjoys from the album? So there is a very deliberate picture being painted of a 'verse that is not going to get fully explained, and that gives each of us the freedom, like you said, to pull the meaning we need to out of it.
Oh, I didn't read his shrug like that at all! That makes more sense though; I'll go check it out again.
All this, I agree! I've read some commentaries from people who do seem to think that nothing that has been created to be fun can have a meaning or a message. And to start with, as anna_unfolding said above, "have fun" IS a message by itself. From what the band have said, that song changed everything because it made them realize they wanted to have fun. So yeah, it can be dumb as fuck and very important at the same time. xD
And I hadn't thought of that, but you're right about why Gerard struggled to answer the question about Na Na Na. He hadn't been exactly asked the same question before, but he'd already talked about the song anyway. So yeah, he didn't have more to say about it and probably didn't want to be rude and say "I already told you that, you deaf?" xD
I love how the reviewers keep saying that MCR are making things interesting. I mean, yeah, that could be because they can't figure out what else to say ("Why hello Aunt Ida, is that a new dress? My, but isn't it interesting!") but I like the excitement I'm hearing, I like that our boys seem to be shaking things up. :)
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And he was shrugging in that answer because he had answered it earlier in the interview and was annoyed. I'm assuming we're talking about the NOVA FM interview, correct?
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Yes, ITA! Of course it doesn't.
"...and a message doesn't have to be spelled out and I think MCR is learning that with this."
Great point, both in general and about the band.
And didn't the last review we read say that we won't get complete answers about Killjoys from the album? So there is a very deliberate picture being painted of a 'verse that is not going to get fully explained, and that gives each of us the freedom, like you said, to pull the meaning we need to out of it.
Oh, I didn't read his shrug like that at all! That makes more sense though; I'll go check it out again.
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And I hadn't thought of that, but you're right about why Gerard struggled to answer the question about Na Na Na. He hadn't been exactly asked the same question before, but he'd already talked about the song anyway. So yeah, he didn't have more to say about it and probably didn't want to be rude and say "I already told you that, you deaf?" xD
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It annoys me that even having a pic of the whole band to use, they cut out Gerard and only use that!
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b) diesel and spunk? really? how's your fanfic coming, Dan Martin?
Adorable.
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