The offspring gone away meaning
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It’s a really great interpretation, it wasn’t where I was going with it at all, but I like that. Is that where you were going with this song? You might try to talk to someone on the other side of the political spectrum but they’re just so filled with rage that you’re just getting blank staring eyes back at you. One perception of “Behind Your Walls” points towards how people can’t really have a civil discourse anymore. We could do better, right? It’s important for us to not come across as political, I never want to be preachy, I never want to tell you that you should think like this, that you should do something or act a certain way, but I do want to throw the observations out there and you can draw your own point-whether you are a liberal or a conservative-to think about the things that we can all do to make things better. Look around, it’s obvious this is not utopia, to put it a nicer way, we could do better. The first song, “This is Not Utopia,” talks about the roots of American “hysteria,” is this a song that perhaps hints that the ego of American Exceptionalism has been a bit unwarranted?įor sure. “Let the Bad Times Roll,” like you said, you gotta laugh or you’ll cry. I’ll show ya how bad this can be!” Then at the same time, when you get to the chorus, it’s sing-songy. “Oh, you don’t like this? I’ll make it worse. We have leaders who don’t seem to care about resolving problems, it’s almost like they want to make it worse, they want to throw fuel on the fire. It’s talking about how stuff is pretty terrible right now, in terms of the law-keep of the world in general, then a pandemic on top of that. And that’s kind of what Let The Bad Times Roll is. So, we do that, but if you make a whole album like that it can be pretty rough, so you almost have to have a dark sense of humor about it. I found that to be really meaningful in the bands that I admired, because life isn’t always pretty and that was actually helpful to hear someone tell it how it is. What I always loved about punk rock growing up, it never shied away from tough subjects. Let The Bad Times Roll seems to be a combination of attitudes, like “doom and gloom” mixed with “you’ve gotta laugh or you’ll cry.” Does that make sense?
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You’d think after so long without putting out a record, the idea of “Let’s wait years, then wait until we’re right in the middle of a pandemic to put out our album.” It doesn’t sound like a successful move, but like I’ve said, we’ve been waiting a year, it’s done and the time feels right for the record. We’ve managed to keep busy, but we’re anxious to get back out there. I’m really glad, because I think we made the record better and it’s as good as we could possibly make it. We’ve also been sitting on this album for nearly a year because we were almost ready to go when the pandemic started and we thought, “Boy, this doesn’t feel like the right time.” We decided to take a fresh look at the whole record, we spent six months doing that.
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We connect with a lot of people that way and it’s very gratifying. It’s a shame not to be able to go out and play shows. How has the past year been for you? Have you been going crazy? Did you record this album during the pandemic? Photo by Daveed Benito (Courtesy The Offspring)