We re not embracing the pop that s going on right now in a melodic sense or even structural-ly. How do the band feel about embracing bigger pop elements? I feel really good about it, Alex says. It did feel a bit like a game show at times, fickle, false, fleeting, feeling unable to wrap your head around it. The whole world that we were in and what was expected of us, the disparity between the life we were living, the life we wanted to live and the life we were expected to live. Elsewhere, their sense of dislocation is highlighted in Je Viens De La, a song inspired by a semi-nal 1960s sci-fi French film shot entirely in still frames like a slide show about time travel and Game Show which concerns the shallowness of the music industry games they were required to play. not attack-ing the world around me but outlining why I don t really get it and why I don t fit in with it. The fact that it was a fully coined term and related to so many people that have existed and do exist made me feel it was okay to not exist on the same level as everyone else, it was okay to be comfortable doing your own thing.

I discovered this term weltschmertz, the German word for being at odds with the world around you, Alex says.

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