Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Platinum sales. Palatial homes. Fred Durst's cell-phone number. Is nothing enough to lift the heavy air of angst that hangs over Staind? "I've mastered feeling nothing/ I'm dead inside/ Why don't I care?" sings frontman and walking existential crisis Aaron Lewis by way of response on "Run Away," the opening track of the group's fifth album. And so the mood is set--again. The rest of the band offers its agreement through brooding torrents of noise and dense minor-key melodies, maintaining its allegiance to 1990s metal heroes Alice In Chains and Pantera. With the exception of the tantalizingly melodic "Devil" and tender love song "Everything Changes," the acoustic guitars have largely been set aside on Chapter V, leaving Staind to pummel away at its troubles and hoping that people still have time to listen to self-pitying grown men moan about their dysfunctional childhoods. "Falling is easy/ It's getting back up that becomes a problem," Lewis sings on "Falling." --Aidin Vaziri
Check out the bold line. The man who wrote that doesn´t like Staind i suppose It´s pretty funny if you think about it but I don´t see what´s wrong with singing about your frustrations. But Aaron said his lyrics could have many different meanings to them... but who cares. Great lyrics-great voice.
Just wanted to share this with you
It's not easy to hide All this damage inside I'll carry you with me Until I'm not alive
Aaron said on an interview that when he writes a song and someone comes up to him to tell him what they think the song means, 75% of the ppl are wrong. Hense "14 SOG" because he writes in 14 SOG. There are so many interpretations to a song by any band... some people just automatically think of the negative that comes out.
Who the fuck cares though. It's music. It's supposed to be to listen to, not to analyze.
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The guy posted that review a while ago...he probably based that on the 30 second clips...lol. And "Fred Durst's cell- phone number"..that is so lame, especially since they rarely talk to him. They call this an "editorial review"...what a joke.
If anyone out there disagrees with that review from amazon.com, please feel free to email the idiot at his personal website http://www.aidinvaziri.com and let him know how you feel.
"Aaron said on an interview that when he writes a song and someone comes up to him to tell him what they think the song means, 75% of the ppl are wrong. Hense "14 SOG" because he writes in 14 SOG. There are so many interpretations to a song by any band... some people just automatically think of the negative that comes out"
Think about how funny it is that Aaron said that. The reason folks are "75% of the time" wrong about his lyrics is cause they're all so similar and all equally so vauge. He is such a limited songwriter (or perhaps just not a deep guy) that he keeps wringing our the same tired emotions song after song (for the most part), and completely lacks any eloquence about it. If you want to really listen/read lyrics with true depth, meaning, and emotional insight (and not this banal, meaningless stuff, that face it - any of us could have written in high school), go read some of Cobain's songs, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder. Even guys like Hetfield, Axl Rose, and the writing of Tool. honestly go out and read/listen to the words and emotions these guys are trying to convey, and than go back and read Aaron's meandering, shallow writing. You guys will be shocked at the difference.
I disagree with that whole statement from above. They even have their facts mixed up. 14 Shades of Grey was to represent 14 sides of Aaron and the band, meaning 14 songs, 14 meanings. So that should say something about songwriting right there. I can't take away how well Cobain and Tool writes, but i cannot say the same for James Hetfield. I love Metallica, but rarely have I liked a song because of it's lyrics, more so their sound is what I like. And Aaron doesn't write songs and give away meanings. He likes to let other people get ideas on what the songs means to them and let that be there own inspiration. I think that if you even look at how each album and how they have gotten brighter you see a band that has evolved. So if people automatically take on a negative side to a song it's because most of heavy rock/metal/nu-metal is about sad and angery times in the bands lives. Even Hetfield did an antire album on it (St.Anger). So don't say that Aaron or any other band is shallow in their songwriting. If you like the band, then you do wether or not it's always about brither things in life or about the sadder, depressing parts of life.
ok, that last part you wrote is a fair point. But if indeed 14SOG is 14 different sides of Aaron/14 different meanings - that what are they? Lets's assume you can't answer that question because as you say Aaron "doesn't write songs to give away meanings." Even so, the 14SOG are SO similar, SO vauge (for the most part) - are there really 14 distinct emotions/experiences begin discussed? No way. it's tiring to hear "you, you, you" again and again, blaming and venting on "you" and how much "I've been hurt by you." If he's gonna write that, at least convey different emotions, experiences, or stories behind all this blaming. Give us something unique from song to song. I feel very confident that you or I or many of the folks on this board could write VERY similarly to the majority of Aaron's lyrics. do you not agree?
I agree in some sence. But to answer your question when Aaron is saying You or I he is talking to the person who it is directed to and not trying to look like each song is directed towards the same person. So what I am saying is that whoever Aaron is writing the song about shoudl know it's them when they listen to it. Oh yeah, Zoe Jane is about his daughter. Price to Play is about life in general, How About You is about the pressure of writing a record and how stressful it is. There a few meanings for you about 14SOG.
Interesting replies on this topic. I have just one opinion on this whole "Aaron´s lyrics are bad or good." What makes a lyric good ?? Why is one lyric better than the other ?? thats just one answer to those questions and that is.... individual opinions!
Aaron Lewis writes lyrics that fits Staind´s songwriting and he writes about his own feelings and thoughts. That´s why -> I <- like his lyrics. But if someone else doesn´t like them then that´s their opinion. I don´t know many people who listen to Staind as much as I do but the hell with it. I love them and what they do and all that matters is, is MY OPINION.
So stick with what you think and don´t try to change what other people think. I don´t understand why people get angry if someone says something bad about Staind.
I don´t like eating mushrooms but maby someone else does....
It's not easy to hide All this damage inside I'll carry you with me Until I'm not alive
I'm not angry and never was. Just trying to stick up for Aaron and really every singer/songwriter and helped that guy with some incite on what Aaron was trying to say that is all. Like you, anyone can say whatever about Staind i am still gunna listen to them.
Don't bother with LOGIC here, Python. It doesn't work on the Staind boards, with people like black_leo and Lordd3r3k who admit to come here solely to incite argument and "have fun" while doing it.
Originally posted by Orillion: Don't bother with LOGIC here, Python. It doesn't work on the Staind boards, with people like black_leo and Lordd3r3k who admit to come here solely to incite argument and "have fun" while doing it.
i never said i come here to start fights. Leo maybe, but not me. its not nice to put words in people's mouths. and for someone who claims to be so much wiser and older than everyone you do alot of assuming.
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It´s pretty funny if you think about it but I don´t see what´s wrong with singing about your frustrations. But Aaron said his lyrics could have many different meanings to them... but who cares. Great lyrics-great voice. 
