Dissonance Chords & Dissenting Opinion

I think the decision I have finally come to is this:

Any complaint you make about Change, you can make the same, or a similar, complaint about New Perspective. And visa versa.

Which I suppose just goes to show that the whole thing is about personal taste in genre.

I think I have to go Team Panic! for now, though. I started becoming very bitter towards Ryan for reasons I’m still not sure of about a month or so before the break-up was even announced. Plus, he’s really not a very good vocalist (I’m still shocked he sang instead of Jon), and only a mediocre guitarist. Talent and skill don’t necessarily play into taste, of course, and that doesn’t mean I won’t give The Young Veins another shot when their album drops; Ryan does a nice bait and switch, where he pulls off the vocals okay on the album, then can’t be consistent live. So maybe if I don’t have to see them live, I can enjoy them, haha.

But what also plays into it is the fact that I grew up on the kind of music The Young Veins are trying to make… and I don’t want to say I rejected it or outgrew it, because I still love all the music my parents raised me on. It’s just that after 10 years of it, I found myself wanting to find my own musical tastes. Not everyone feels that way; a lot of people embrace this kind of music and continue to listen to it forever while still finding their own tastes, different or similar. Some purists refuse to try anything new.

I embraced a love for modern pop. I love to watch it grow and change on its own (The Young Veins are pop-rock too, it’s just a pop style that’s 30-40 years old), molding into certain styles that scream the decade almost down to the year. I love to watch new bands come along and build on those styles and create something new that’s still radio friendly. I have an obsession with little-known bands covering overplayed pop tunes (I have 3 different covers of Taylor Swift’s “Love Story,” and none of them are the actual Taylor Swift version). And I think it’s that love of the new, the growth, the different story, that make me more excited for Panic!’s new album than for The Young Veins. Spencer and Brendon have said New Perspective is one of the poppier tunes they’re written recently, and I’m eager to see what else they come up with. I don’t expect Ryan’s lyrics from Brendon, just like I don’t expect Brendon’s music from Ryan.

(For the record, I’m not saying The Young Veins music isn’t growth and development; it definitely is. It’s just in going in a different direction from where my personal tastes are coming from.)

I’m going to give both bands a shot, and who knows what will happen once both albums are out and in my hands. I don’t think anything will really change, except that The Young Veins may have won me over a little more. We can only wait and see.