brettjrob wrote:Willh wrote:Wanna see a perfect example of horrible, absolutely cringe worthy lyrics? This is just the height of trash and it's shocking to me that there are people out here who can relate to this or even listen to it without having to turn it off, not from offense but from the cringe factor. What the hell is going on in minds of these people??
Pretty much agree with you; I don't completely hate Disturbed, and even have a few MP3's from them on my hard drive, but the lyrics to that song (and admittedly most of their others) come off as almost as manufactured and plastic as Britney's, just targeted at a different audience. I sometimes question whether any lyrics are truly written without profit in mind; I love bands like Tool and Radiohead and the complexity of their work makes it apparent that they are at least somewhat sincere -- because they could easily make money without putting forth so much effort -- but even Maynard and Tom Yorke may not always be writing lyrics solely for their artistic value.
What really ticks me off are people who bash the lyrics of one group while claiming that those of another band are divine insight and the biggest thing since Shakespeare, when in fact there is some amount of commercialism involved in pretty much all popular recorded music.
Disturbed is fairly diversified enough but their keeping within a stylistic way of writing b/c of ... the name of the band, much like Staind. However, I'm a HUGE fan of Disturbed and their songs delve straight into things that aren't generally talked about, basically much like Slayer except without all the really evil overtones.
The second CD (Believe) is much more diversified than the first ... with somes like Remember, Intoxication, Liberate, Prayer and Believe ... as a matter of fact, here's my Disturbed lyrical page and read through the lyrics sets between the first and the second ... and see the difference between The Sickness (which was a straight in your face concept) vs. Believe which explores much more lyrically, musically, and subject matter wise.
http://www.stormsfury1.com/Music/Disturbed.html