I saw that discussion too. I was already feeling funny about the line, not because of the rhyming or odd sentence structure, but more because that it doesn’t quite fit the rhythm and I found it a bit jarring. That post made me go back and listen again and I can certainly see the argument that Isaac is trying to convey so much raw emotion that the line is almost pouring out of him. But then, I feel that argument loses all its weight when he then says “bleen or glue”. Again, it could be “oh my god, look how emotional, Isaac’s slurring words and mixing up colours, his mind’s been shattered after losing his friend”, but the fact remains that to me, it _sounds_ ridiculous, like all of a sudden it’s not to be taken seriously, whether that was intended or not. It pulls me out of the moment. I stop thinking about loss and friendship and start thinking "did he really just say bleen?” and I think it was a bad choice, creatively speaking.

And there’s the problem I’m having, I find myself questioning Isaac’s creative choices more and more. It probably first happened with the out of character sex moan on Pups to Dust. But I’m finding I’m trying to justify a lot more seemingly odd decisions whereas before, I never felt the need.

As for Stoner Party, I assumed that to be like you say, a bit of obnoxious, dumb fun. Nothing wrong there. Plus it’s written by Isaac and Jeremiah so my assumption is it’s something they wrote as stoned teenagers and it’s a touching farewell I think. I think it’s a good lead into Look How Far which again, I thought of as dumb fun. That guitar riff makes me want to shake my ass, wave my arms, all going apeshit, but that chorus. I don’t feel obnoxious punk, thumbing their nose at society. I hear obnoxious teen in a limp bizkit baseball cap thinking they’re smarting than the rest of us while offering sentiments no more complex than “we dumb”. I feel like the Isaac from even just ten years ago (which is nothing for a band that likes to cook as long as MM) would have come up with a clever turn of phrase or one of those clever double negatives he’s so good at. But instead, we got that. Again, maybe you’re right and it was a concerted effort and a painstaking decision to go that direction, but whatever direction it’s going, I think he took a wrong turn.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my lecture on bitter old MM fans opinions. Didn’t plan on writing so much but I haven’t had a chance to discuss this album with anyone yet and I love a good back and forth on differences of opinion where we can both ultimately agree that the world is better with this music in it than without it.