Wall of Mouths

STAY HAPPY

‘If there’s one thing that I should remember, there is a light at the end of the tunnel…’ (30 Seconds). Can’t be more positive than this. But also a song like Safe (‘I’m clean and I’m clinging, like I never held on to anything in my life’) contains some positive parts. It’s not all Misery (!).

Uhm, lets see… Is there a serious band you know of that has songs about being happy all the time? A lot of music deals with all kinds of problems. Anyway I think it’s kinda radical to say that all T? fans feel miserable just because they listen to T? I mean why would they then? Do all The Cure fans put on make-up, or love it to get lost in a forest?

Well,I think that most songs in Troublegum sound happy even though they talk about unpleasant situations.If you just read the lyrics of Nowhere or Unrequited, then indeed these songs will sound miserable.Just make your girlfriend listen to them.

Your girlfriend’s wrong!
I think that Therapy’s music actually is uplifting. If I’m really down it definelty doesn’t help to listen to ‘happy’ music with nonsens lycrics. I for one feel much better when i listen to Therapy?:s lyrics for instance, because sometimes they sing exactly how I feel, and it really helps to know that someone else has felt the same way as you do.

I find T? stuff to be more realistic in its lyrics compared to some of that shit that gets into the charts, which gives the impression that life is good and happy always, which it isn’t at all. Therapy mix happy and miserable stuff and it gives a much more realistic outlook on life.

Therapy? lyrics are miserable from the core.
I do sence a great amount of black humour and a way of looking at
things not to serious, although they probably are.
It must be an ‘Irish’ mentality. Drink it away and laugh at it.
But their lyrics are not ‘happy’ in a normal sence of way.
The music has a uplifting form of tone, so the contrast of the total package is blurring.

Most music is about sad stuff because it’s a million times easier to write a sad song than it is to write a happy one. And, in general, more people can relate to sad songs. I mean, it’s hard to relate to a song who’s lyrics are ‘if you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands’. I don’t understand your girlfriend anyway. Are Therapy? fans a special breed of people who don’t like ANY other band, don’t listen to ANY other music and are basically sad. they’re not.

Thanks guys.

Well, I don’t agree with Barbie, that a sad song is easier to write. It must be a lot easier to write ‘life is a flower, tralala’ than to really give away what you’re thinking.

Maybe Barbie means that it is harder to write a happy tune that actually says something.

I have plenty against S Club 7. They are a prime example of a manufactured group singing shitty songs that say pretty much the same thing with each song(baby I love you, can’t live without you etc.) Therapy? should add them to their ‘Get a gun on New Year’s Eve and kill some pop groups’ list.

Exactly!