full of manic energy and there's no doubt that you nailed the challenge. I found myself longing for a more memorable hook or some kind of change-up / room to breathe, though. The combination of non-stop lyrics and the ravey detuned synth grated on me.
I may have said this before, but I think the biggest thing holding you back is your band name. I don't think I've found any of your songs funny - maybe a joke lands here and there, but never more than once a song... And some of the songs of yours I've liked the most were the least overtly funny, like this one. There's a cleverness and truth to all the contradictions that make up your lyrics, but they're not funny, they're actually representative of an overarching anxiety in the zeitgeist.
I may have said this before, but I think the biggest thing holding you back is your band name. I don't think I've found any of your songs funny - maybe a joke lands here and there, but never more than once a song... And some of the songs of yours I've liked the most were the least overtly funny, like this one. There's a cleverness and truth to all the contradictions that make up your lyrics, but they're not funny, they're actually representative of an overarching anxiety in the zeitgeist.
Wow.
So, according to that logic, if we posted this same song under the name 'Pop Machine' (400+ song catalog)
instead of BYD (100+ songs), you would have liked the song better?
Huh. I know we're not your cup of tea. I'll leave it at that, and thank you for listening.
Promising start, the electric piano and repeating bass figure sound appealing and give it a good drive. Unfortunately, it feels way too repetitive almost immediately once the vocals come in--the melody and meter are very simplistic, I don't like the rhyme scheme, and the way each part is repeated constantly with basically no change to arrangement or vocal phrasing made this song feel incredibly long, particularly the verses. The lyrics read OK on the page, but don't always translate well to being sung--there are some awkwardly accented syllables in your delivery, like "RO-tund" and "Listen TO what I say". (And I wouldn't say "an" before "easy prey.") I like your use of contradictions, although the actual societal/political insights unfortunately seem a bit tired at this point.