Culminating with the song’s underlining statement From the song’s opening salvo to the crunch line “ conformity has no authority,” it’s a barrage of jabs at what has sadly become the familiar. Their modus operandi is pasted clear as day in the title song from their debut full length- the truly exceptional “Mutiny.” It not only makes its case for song of the year, but also manages to capture the feelings of many a jaded listener in just a few lines. It’s melodic, accessible, but aggressive and urgent nonetheless. Taking cue from their musical namesakes CIV and the early sounds of Saves the Day, New Found Glory, and to some extent, Lifetime, Eulogy’s Set Your Goals have come to, quite frankly, save the day. Who, in one fell sweep, conjure up the inspiring notions of optimism and a better future seemingly lost in the flood of mascara, slit wrists, and awful haircuts. It’s at the point where AFI gets four different magazine covers in a given month spun with enough hyperbole to fill a black hole.īut there is hope, and it comes in the form of an all-plundering pirate ship named Set Your Goals. Embraced by mass media and more importantly, by a great number of the younger generation, its self-involved mantra has become the mouthpiece of youth- propelling the Hawthorne Heights and Taking Back Sundays of the world into the upper echelon of hypermarketability and magazine cover gloss. Once the bastion of music’s version of “letting go,” punk/hardcore has in recent years been overshadowed by the bleary-eyed, emotionally self-destructive nature of emo music and its counterparts. In the age of musical excess there is a great emphasis placed on the histrionic values of an artist and the music they craft.
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