![]() ![]() When someone asks how you are, the acceptable answers are “good,” “fine,” or if your entire life is falling apart, “OK.” Be “chill” in your relationships, be professional at work. Adults won't mock you for your feelings (usually) but there's still a certain imperative to keep a lid on it, as grown-ups. One first learns emotions are uncool in middle school, when hormone-driven crushes are locked in eternal struggle with the need to conceal them from others at all costs, lest one be mocked. I'm trying to think of an emotion that, in large quantities, could still be “cool.” Ennui? Sadness could be cool, especially if it takes the form of brooding, but despair, probably not. In real life, the rules of cool allow some feelings, sure, but in moderation. ![]() If emotion is inside the bar making a heartfelt toast, cool is outside loitering with its shirt untucked, a cigarette in its mouth, and a neutral, sleepy expression on its face. ![]() Cool is effortless, cool is not caring too much. Recommended: The Eternal Return of BuzzFeedĮmotions are categorically uncool. (Although maybe we’re in the midst of an emo revival these days? Or maybe we’re not.) And because of it, both are dismissed, in certain circles, as being unserious, and uncool. Not that Taylor Swift is emo by the musical definition, but her songs are similar to Dashboard's in that both focus on relationships-their melodrama, their intimate details-and explore them with honest, unbridled, over-the-top emotion. The Internet.Īnd of course Swift knows all the words to “Hands Down.” As Vulture pointed out, there’s a lyrical overlap between Swift’s music and Dashboard Confessional that makes a certain sense: “The passionate drama, the bitter revenge, the hopeless romance: Tay and Chris have a lot in common.” You know what they really have in common? Emotion. Last week, Taylor Swift had him come to her best friend’s birthday party for a surprise concert, after which she posted videos on Instagram of everyone singing “Hands Down.” This was news because a. These days, Carrabba fronts the folk band Twin Forks, but it seems he’s still up for a good sing-along. Recommended: The Math Question That Went Viral At the concert, fans stuck mostly to belting, yelling along at full volume. The vocals range from soft and intimate to Carrabba belting so hard his voice goes ragged. The music was solidly “emo”-at its most basic it was just Carrabba, a guitar, and his feelings, although it became more orchestrated on later albums. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.Dashboard Confessional was mostly Chris Carrabba, a pompadoured troubadour who captured troubled teen hearts starting 15 years ago with the release of Dashboard’s first album, The Swiss Army Romance. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. But there is seemingly no way out but death. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. The same name but something we can't see divides usĭon't run away 'cause I need you more than you know nowĭon't run away, don't run away, don't run away ![]()
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