The Academy Is… - Sputter
It’s intricate. It starts questioning, and telling you the things going on. As if it were a directed movie. A movie that has some incredible graphics.
The Academy Is has never failed to interest me in their music. (Except for that one song… that kinda bothered me… cough. Ha. I’m not going to share my prejudices though.) The song carries a delicate mixture of what Santi had. How it had this intricacy with lyrics, that made you think… but it carries what I feel, brings things back into Fast Times. I think the way that William’s voice has grown seems to show his maturity in the music, and it’s so incredibly visible. To me, anyway.
In this song, there is the lyric that goes “You know it’s alright, you’re stepping on the cracks, and you feel fine.” Coming from my own personal feelings here (I’m getting deep with this song…) I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. I really have, and I know that. I don’t dwell on the past. But as a child, I was always the one that skipped over the cracks, due to the “Step on a crack, break your mother’s back” saying. I grew out of that superstition as I got older, as most kids do. But, when I got older, and I would sit on the sidewalk outside of my house, I wondered… what if the cracks in the sidewalk represented something? I mean, I had seen them fix the sidewalk, but why couldn’t they just fill it like asphalt? Why did it have to have cracks in it? Why couldn’t it just be straight out, and not have cracks? And that’s when I would notice it had cracks in it, not just because it was easier to refill if it broke, but because the weeds could grow through it. But they were weeds… they grew so fast, and then, once they would reach the surface, after breaking through the cement, and taking so much time… they died… they would “Sputter out.”
Maybe it’s just my take on the song, but I get so much more of a depth from this song than I’m probably supposed to.As I said in the beginning though, how this song is a directed film… I feel that the moment people might listen to this, they get a serious feeling deep down… I know I do.
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I know, this was more of a rant of my opinions, and life, but I think it’s okay.
The song is amazing. Light, airy, but makes you think, with the incredible piano in the back, the drumming carrying out a complete pattern the entire time. The lyrics make the song, but the music itself shares the feeling of the song. With what sounds like a shaker in the back of the music for majority of the song, I can’t help but feel like the song is going somewhere.
I shared. You share.
Tell me what YOU think the song shares.
-Nikkol.
