#but these lyrics seem especially poignant at this point in time rn lol

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Excellent post on Hand of God! I've thought of Hand of God as a thesis statement for FUCT for a long time, especially in light of this quote from an interview I think you'd enjoy:

HP:  I don’t think it has at all. People want to discuss your hair more than your music. Speaking of which, the album lyrically seems to point to two people or a before and after concept. Which is it?

 PW:  The interesting thing with the first song ‘Our Lawyer…’ can be taken so many different ways it is tongue in cheek whilst watching yourself from a distance. The whole album is very voyeuristic and all about watching this thing happen. On the last record we just wanted anybody to listen. Anybody. We were just dudes from the suburbs of Chicago and we had put out a sticky mess of a record that some people had latched on to and dissected. Before we put out this record we knew that people would pick apart every single word. There are these two sets of songs on the record, but rather than it being two different people it is the dichotomy within one person. The idea of this hyper arrogance versus hyper shyness, or this person who is addicted to the truth versus this person who considers himself a liar. These two are fighting within one person.

 HP:  Narcissistic as it depreciates the object and the owner for his choice of subject.

 PW:  Absolutely. That is the interesting thing, if you are willing to sit here and tear every single person you know apart then you should be able to tear yourself apart too. The best writers of all time engage in that activity. People like Bukowski you can watch them just shred themselves right before your eyes. And then shred everyone else too. It’s like the murder suicide with the pen where everybody goes.

 PS:  This record is self referential to the point where the first song on the record is musically a stab what was our biggest hit before then ‘Where Is Your Boy’. It is pretty hidden but I arranged it so it is an alternate universe version of it. My reasoning for doing that was that the lyric was so great at lambasting everything we had been up to that point.

 PW:  There is also a part on that song that says ‘Hey, here is everything you are going to say about us next year, fuck you, we just said it.’

 PS:  Totally, so I thought, give it the right backbone and make it like our biggest song but not.

Interview here [x]

WOAUGH THANK YOU SM FOR THIS???? I really feel a lot of very big ways about Hand of God, it's FASCINATING on so many levels and I'm using it as a jumping off point for a lot of dissection I'm doing in an essay I'm writing rn (which started out as just an analysis of LFTOS, but it's... way more now lol I decided I had a lot more in me that couldn't just fit under one song 😅)

this interview really is like... yeah that's what it is. fuck you, we said it before you did. it's like tauntingly sticking their tongues out at the critics, yknow? which is about half of what Hand of God is imo, with the other half being this absolute raw honesty that does feel horribly poignant considering where Pete's mental health was at that point. there's a lot tied up in that song and it really is a layer underneath all of FUTCT in my mind, you can see the same themes and thoughts and feelings showcased through the album that are really pinpointed and said in very plain words in Hand of God.

thanks so much for sending me this fr! it really makes you Think

#fob #lftos essay #asks