Well... the song itself is not bad.... but the melodies certain are.
DT REALLY needs to focus on vocal melodies.
That's what really makes a song be good or bad.... and that's the reason we are discussing it.... THEY NEED TO FIX IT!!!!
As example, the new Iron Maiden album: Its the same notes, same strutures, but the vocal melodies makes the album shine.
The vocal melodies are fine. Why do they need to focus on melodies to fit your model of what Dream Theater vocals should be?
JLB can not sing high notes that well anymore live and I feel they took that into account when making the vocal melodies for the song.
Also, you have to incorporate the lyrics and words into the singing style JLB is using. The song is titled "Invisible Monster" and it's like his voice being not high and loud and more lower and subdued makes it sound like he is the Invisible Monster under the bed.
You fans really crack me up.
What's so boring, disappointing, about the song that did not meet your expectations?
I just listened to it again hoping for some improvement. Nope, this is lame, what a fucking disappointment.
"Yes, Mr. Sherman, everything stinks."
Here's one question....Why do you find it to be lame and a disappointment? What makes something "lame" and "disappointing"?
I mentioned my thoughts on why I feel the way I do earlier mate. Seems others somewhat agree. I guess to you we should just accept and fawn over whatever the band do because it's DT?
You fans crack me up too.
It does get repetitive though when no one explains why they chose to use those words to describe the song.
But I do not know what people are expecting and what they expect from Dream Theater. That's why I find fans of anything hilarious because they tend to feel forsaken if whatever they're fans of does something totally different from their expectations or doesn't meet the high standards of those expectations.
It's fascinating, how fans can do this.
It's gets repetitive also when fans suck the bands dick no matter what they release. Adami is right, you explain to me why it's so awesome. Why do negative comments have to be justified but positive ones don't?
I'm allowed to not like it. And I've been a fan since I was 16 so don't look down on someone just because you don't agree with their opinion on a song pal.
What do I want from them? A song that is inspired, something with energy and something that sounds like the band giving a shit and not going through the motions. Something more melodically enticing too.
Not liking it is totally fine. I myself didn't like Paralyzed when D/T came out, and I'm happy they replaced it with FITL when they came to my city. Now, to say that the song is uninspired, and sounds like it the band is going through the motions and not giving a shit sounds to me like a way of saying:
"I am unispired when I listen to it. I'm going through the motions when I listen to it. I don't give a shit about it"
I'm sure the band didn't feel this way when writing the song otherwise it wouldn't have made it to the album.
Alright, I'll bite.
The band perhaps didn't feel like they were going through the motions when they wrote and recorded this song, but therein lies the problem (at least for people like myself or Wolfking or Elite). From an outside perspective it sure as hell sounds like they are going through the motions just to pump out a song. Which is why it sounds uninspired and like they stopped caring about writing captivating music that excites the listener. They need an outside listener (aka a real producer) to reign them in and at the same time force them to push in new directions, try new things (and I don't mean pull a 180 and write a country album (although Devin Townsend did that and it was amazing)). The band is basically writing and recording in a musical echo chamber at this point.
I'll provide two examples: First, I was listening to my music library on shuffle today while driving and Lie came on. Now
that is (still) an exciting song to listen to. It has interesting arrangements, slick solos, great vocal melodies that make you want to sing along. What an awesome song! And basically every song on Awake (once I thought about it) is just as interesting. Invisible Monster gave me none of that excitement, even on subsequent listens.
Second: a great example of a band that can excite with every album is Between the Buried and Me. Whenever they release a new album you just know it will be chock full of exciting and surprising twists and turns, while still being melodic and memorable. When I listened to their new Colors II album that was just released for the first time I had the biggest grin on my face throughout the entire hour+ runtime. The 2 new DT songs had me falling asleep part way in...
Granted, if people like the new songs, that's fine. We are all entitled to like or not like whatever we want, but people are asking for why we don't like the new songs, so I figured I'd jump in with an explanation....
Also, I do acknowledge that DT tried something new with The Astonishing and I was on board with it for a while, but it didn't age well for me. However I do give them props for trying something different there. However, DT12 and D/T both fell flat for me.