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Four Year Strong Discusses Early Fan Reaction In a new interview , Four Year Strong From the Interview Dan : We knew that some kids would be bummed. Some of my favorite bands of all time all did this. They wrote two fucking awesome records and changed it up a little bit. New Found Glory put out Coming Home, and that’s my favorite New Found Glory record. Saves The Day put out Stay What You Are, and that’s my favorite of theirs. Brand New with Deja, that’s my favorite fucking record. At the end of the day, we’re in a band and we tour, but we love to write songs. We felt trapped about writing pop-punk in a certain way. We just wanted to write a record.Joe : All this stuff still has heavy Four Year Strong elements. It’s aggressive and still has energy.Dan : We’d never written a mid-tempo song though, so we gave that a shot.Has it been weird seeing the backlash? Dan : Not really. We’re definitely a guilt pleasure for a lot of kids. I don’t know if they don’t have to feel guilty anymore, but at some point you can’t keep everybody happy. We knew that. A lot of kids don’t like change. The band that they like isn’t changing; we’re just putting out a different record. That doesn’t mean that we don’t play our old song and that our next record is going to sound like Hoobastank. We’re the same band, we just wrote twelve different songs.Joe : Another thing I will say about the backlash is that I think it partly had to do with the fact that we brought up beforehand that it was different. “Wasting Time” on Enemy would have come nowhere close to fitting on Rise Or Die, but if we said that, people would have said it was fucking ridiculous. We should have let people make up their own minds.
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01:32 PM on 10/26/11
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01:35 PM on 10/26/11
Coming Home is where it's at. I didn't get too much into Enemy, but I'm looking for to hearing this one.
01:41 PM on 10/26/11
he's totally right about wasting time being a big change. they've never put out the same record twice anyway.
01:42 PM on 10/26/11
I get that bands need to grow and develop but at the end of the day just looking at the songs as a whole and not the band, those new songs are just meh to me and sound like a foo fighters knock off. There was nothing in these new songs that made me think that there was something unique in the sound that was once there with their previous efforts.
01:44 PM on 10/26/11
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Dan: We don’t have any plans right now. We’re trying to figure out something for the spring. We might have something lined up for the summer.
Definitly warped tour, who else books bands that far in advance?
01:44 PM on 10/26/11
Coming Home probably has NFG's best written songs on it, love that thing. Can't wait for this thiing
01:44 PM on 10/26/11
just listened to clips of the album on Itunes....SO amazing!! I think it just shows how talented they are to write a completely different album......
01:45 PM on 10/26/11
Coming Home probably has NFG's best written songs on it, love that thing. Can't wait for this thiing
Coming home is the best NFG album!....sucks they don't play any of the songs live!
01:46 PM on 10/26/11
I understand their reasoning. Face to Face's Ignorance is Bliss is my favorite record by them, and it was by far the most reviled at first.
01:47 PM on 10/26/11
I think they're spot on, if they didn't point out that it was different, no one would have said shit.
01:47 PM on 10/26/11
And Coming Home is a fucking GREAT album.
01:48 PM on 10/26/11
Definitly warped tour, who else books bands that far in advance?
Blink 182's Europe Tour, Four Year Strong was originally suppose to support last year and they're trying to get back this time.
01:49 PM on 10/26/11
Familiar childhood dreams
Welp, the reasoning is right but he sort of proved everyone's point right there in his own words.
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