so i went shopping today and pi
cked up a HIM shirt for $7.99, which is an amazing deal thank you very much. Normally I would add to this a rant about how HIM is a the greatest band on this planet. But truth be told its not for everyone. I think HIM targets the romantic and the depressive*. the masochistic romantics who watch movies like Titanic, Sweet November and in my case A Walk to Remember again and again. Who will cry every time and still claim to have been fully entertained and full-filled with the movie experience. This is complete bullshit but also completely true.When i listen to Ville Valo's voice it takes possession of my thoughts and I honestly can't think when he's singing. The lyrics aren't complicated and are pretty uncreative, but then again I never cared about lyrics. His crooning for death, for love, for the misery he's feeling gives the music a voice. Both are completely in sync and do not seem separate. His voice without the music and the music without the voice don't make sense. Its what my dark romantic soul is screaming. I didn't realize a soul could be described in music until HIM. And thats quite simply what they represent for me. and to hell with everyone else.
but i really should add im not a fan of their new music. its more alternative rock than love metal. they switched managers [i need to reference this] and this one is trying to make them more marketable, which i appreciate. it makes HIM more popular and brings them to my town, but it takes them away from who they are and they are the gods of love metal. hopefully their new album, tentatively titled SCREAMWORKS: Love in Theory and Practice, coming out Valentine's Day 2010, stays truer to them than Venus Doom, though the name doesnt give me much hope :(
Bands who speak similarly to me with a couple of their songs are NIN, Smashing Pumpkins, Marylin Manson, Apocalyptica, and Within Temptation. But then I'm two people in one and therefore my purple soul is more moody, less tolerant, deepy introvert, and very close lipped. My turquoise side has a whole different range of music which i will get into later...for your reading pleasure ;D
-i need earphones
-lets see how long i cant put off my next post
* different from depressed, depressive means you have the potential to be made temporarily depressed though you are not a depressed person, this is also different from emo

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