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OfflineMisterKite
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Bright Eyes - Why the long face?
    #5413849 - 03/17/06 05:14 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

What does Bright Eyes have to be so depressed about? In the mock interview (which is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard) on Fevers and Mirrors, he says that his mother drowned his five brothers. Is this true?


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: MisterKite]
    #5413888 - 03/17/06 05:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

i don't think that's true. i think he was just fucking with the interviewer (the entire interview wasn't real to begin with).

Conor Oberst is just reflecting the depressive aspect of the universe. sometimes you don't need a specific reason.


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: Metasyn]
    #5414222 - 03/17/06 06:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

not all of his music is like that; much is positive and uplifiting, but also don't forget that Tragedy is the hieght of artistic achievement.


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: MisterKite]
    #5418153 - 03/19/06 08:41 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)
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its not true as a far as i know but it is a theme that he keeps comming back to.

padraic my prince - from letting off the happiness

I had a brother once
He drowned in a bathtub
Before he had ever learned how to talk
And I don?t know what his name was
But my mother does
I heard her say it once

Padriac, my prince, I've all but died
From the sheer weight of my shame
You cried but no one came
And the water filled your tiny lungs
Appear, my dear, and cry for me
It was six years ago today
That we laid you in your grave
Your sweet young skin was shining then too

And so tonight to celebrate, I will, I will poison myself
Another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning

So I close the door and rest my head on the tile floor
Sickness and sleep turning me cold
I'm still not sure
Is there some better place I should be heading towards?
Where the selfishly sick and self absorbed are welcome

I saw the future once
I was drunk in a phone booth
My eyes were wet and red
But I could not tell what was said
And through the screams of the traffic
Voiced carried, saying, "Im sorry"

On a day so gray it's black inside
Watching churches on tv
In a coma you don?t dream
You just hope that someone sits with you
Babies turn blue when they're ignored
Like the sky on summer days
Before you turn and walk away
It has changed you

So tonight to compensate, I will, I will poison myself
Another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: MisterKite]
    #5421116 - 03/20/06 02:03 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

no it is not true. conor oberst believes in separation of art and artist. just because he might tell you a story in a certain song (padric my prince, for instance) doesn't make it autobiographical. i can respect that.

i don't listen to music to know the person or learn anything about them, i listen to be entertained. if he can make me imagine such a depressing thing as my siblings drowning in bathtubs, and put it so poetically where it's actually interesting, then more power to him.

the whole interview was a joke and (i think) scripted.

i really enjoy bright eyes and have seen them two times. don't listen to them much anymore but i will always enjoy them.


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: MisterKite]
    #5421687 - 03/20/06 09:16 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Not true.

A friend of mine from college went to the same expensive Jesuit prep school as Conor Oberst. Want to see why he's full of self-hatred?



Anyway, being sad and opiated and self-hating is just part of being emo in omaha (emoha). Not exactly the happiest music scene in existence...


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: adrug]
    #5422421 - 03/20/06 01:03 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

a lot of comparatively happy music comes out of omaha too, though. like the faint.

and i think conor is more into coke than opiates. but i wouldn't be suprised if he did both and a lot of other things as well. i know he drinks a lot.


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: fung_us_among_us]
    #5422487 - 03/20/06 01:22 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

they fuckin blow


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: Trippy_Search]
    #5422731 - 03/20/06 02:30 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

go back to otd, you worm.

if you want to continue this discussion i suggest we move it to OTD, so that i can effectively flame burnout hippie waste of spaces like yourself, without fear of getting the ban stick shoved down my throat.

and if that offends any of the mods, please delete/edit my post. you guys know i love this forum but when somebody has such blatent disreguard for the rules and general respect of other members opinions, i can't help it.

trippy_search, plese go back to tripping and leave us alone.


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: fung_us_among_us]
    #5425386 - 03/21/06 01:42 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

The Faint is happy music???

Your definition of happy must be different than mine. :smirk:


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: adrug]
    #5425398 - 03/21/06 01:44 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

The Faint makes me want to do drugs and dance. That's happy to me. :smirk:


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: fung_us_among_us]
    #5426501 - 03/21/06 05:58 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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fung_us_among_us said:
go back to otd, you worm.

if you want to continue this discussion i suggest we move it to OTD, so that i can effectively flame burnout hippie waste of spaces like yourself, without fear of getting the ban stick shoved down my throat.

and if that offends any of the mods, please delete/edit my post. you guys know i love this forum but when somebody has such blatent disreguard for the rules and general respect of other members opinions, i can't help it.

trippy_search, plese go back to tripping and leave us alone.




im sry if i offended you. but i just dont like them.


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Re: Bright Eyes - Why the long face? [Re: Trippy_Search]
    #5434781 - 03/23/06 02:42 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

well said. much better than "they fucking blow".

and as a bonus now you sound like maybe you did pass high school. SCORE.

adrug- i don't find anything sad/depressing about the faint. maybe some of their lyrics are SLIGHTLY sad but not all that much, and even then the dance feel of it cancels that out a little.

but that's just me. different music affects different people in different ways. :smile:


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