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Sing It Loud - Come Around

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RIYL

Motion City Soundtrack
All Time Low
Cobra Starship
The Maine

Tracklist

1. I’ve Got A Feeling
2. We’re Not Afraid
3. Come Around
4. Don’t Save Me
5. Give It Up
6. Mpls
7. No One Can Touch Us
8. Marionettes
9. Over You
10. Fade Away
11. Best Beating Heart

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TheRedwingdavid

Question:

Your band releases a debut album, the one and only standout track of which features a guest appearance from the lead singer of a band that is already more popular, is renowned for a far better grasp on the music they themselves are attempting, and his performance serves mainly to highlight both his own vocal skills and to humiliate the band's own lead singer and expose his exciting as cardboard warbling.

Do you:

a) Give up, shelve the album, and return to a mundane 9-5 job, dignity intact.

b) Listen to some Roxy Music and Neil Young and actively try and attempt to sound like you are not making a CD to be included in "Pop Music With Guitars For Dummies".

c) Bank on the fact that the demographic you are targeting with your music is literally too stupid, spineless, and musically (and literally) uneducated enough to buy your music in droves, simply because of your American Apparel to good hairstyle ratio, realize you are sat on a lavish tour bus with a hefty advance from a rather successful record label, shrewdly cynical enough to sign a band as boring as yours because they too share this knowledge with you and stand to probably make more money than you from this ineptness.

Extra Credit:

Should one band be singled out for the current diabolical state of melodic guitar driven pop-rock? In the current state of the music industry, if one band wants to emulate all other successful acts, by layering their flimsy mash up of emo and pop-punk with the same synth loops used time and time again, yet cynically try and boost sales by high profile guest appearances that in actuality backfire hilariously, should they really be criticized?

Postulate how, one could argue, that in actual fact, it is the consumer who is the fool here, and bands like this are having the last laugh with every download, ticket sale, and generically gaudy t-shirt they move.

--Alex Davies

(Examiner's note: All points here are hypothetical and not meant to bear any similarity to recently released pop albums on Epitaph Records that, albeit well produced and far from offensive, are slowly nailing shut the coffin of the music I once loved.)