Tumbling Like Alice

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When Pete [commited himself to the band] it felt like he had a list of things in his head he wanted to do right. Lyrics were on that list. He wasn’t playing around anymore. I wrote the majority of the lyrics up to that point: “Saturday,” “Dead on Arrival,” “Where Is Your Boy?,” “Grenade Jumper” and “Homesick at Space Camp.” I was an artsy-fartsy dude who didn’t want to be in a pop-punk band, so I was going really easy on the lyrics. I wasn’t taking them seriously. When I look back on it, I did write some all right stuff. But I wasn’t trying. Pete doesn’t fuck around like that, and he did not take that kindly.

When we got back in the studio, he started picking apart every word, every syllable. He started giving me [notes]. I got so exasperated at one point I was like, “You just write the fucking lyrics, dude. Just give me your lyrics and I’ll write around them,” kind of angrily. So he did. We hadn’t quite figured out how to do it, though. I would write a song, scrap my lyrics and try to fit his into where mine had been. It was exhausting. It was a rough process. It made both of us unhappy.

The sound was always more important to me — the rhythm of the words, alliteration, syncopation was all very exciting to me. Pete didn’t care about any of that. He was all meaning. He didn’t care how good the words sounded if they weren’t amazing when you read them. Man, did we fight about that. We fought for nine days straight all while not sleeping and smelling like shit. It was one long argument, but I think some of the best moments are the result of that.

Patrick Stump, on the writing process with Pete on Take This To Your Grave (via soulstumped)
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motherfickle: “ thebrokenhunterandhisbrokenangel: “ worldofdrakan: “ its-heaven-nowadays: “ More Macklemore, less Robin Thicke. ” And yet a huge percentage of Tumblr hates him. Not trying to be confrontational, but could someone please explain to me...
its-heaven-nowadays

More Macklemore, less Robin Thicke.

worldofdrakan

And yet a huge percentage of Tumblr hates him. Not trying to be confrontational, but could someone please explain to me why this is?

thebrokenhunterandhisbrokenangel

Because he is a straight white guy and Tumblr isn’t always right. 

motherfickle

Yup. A lot of people like to ignore all the good things he does simply because he is part of the privileged. Never mind that he flat out acknowledges this in Same Love. (“I may not be the same, but that’s not important.”)

seraph5

yes! thank you! i’ve been battling the tumblr macklehate for ages. It’s nice to see there are people who get that he’s not a bad dude. Most people on tumblr don’t seem to get that it’s the industry who offers him well deserved accolades while withholding accolades from artists who are just as deserving. He has nothing to do with that but they attribute that unfairness to him instead of to the industry who are the real bastards in this occasion.