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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
This is an interesting take for sure. For starters I always saw "you spend too much time with those boy bands, you got a MAN band up here tonight baby!" as very tongue-in-cheek as a way to get easy applause.
I go back and forth if the rest is dead on or not. Richie I believe has a song on ASCAP registered as "For All The Love Departed" rumored to be pre-2000. Between that turn of phrase, the Tommy and Gina, the talk box, Jon's constant telling of the Frankie story, it's tough to say who did what. Luke in interviews has mentioned how they took Tico's drum beats, put them into a sample and had him play over it and he would have no reason to lie about it being a song sent to them. That's a lot of band involvement so far.
The melody and structure does sound more like typical pop music than it does the band.
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The lyrics are a constant re-hash of other lyrics they used to have. Jon had a solo track called "I don't want to live forever" which, on top of all, also had the line "gonna live while I'm alive". I don't doubt for a second that the band had their hand in fleshing out the song, but Jon playing Martin's role down to "he just happened to be in the same room" is quite over the top since, as I stated, the basic structure and melody clearly seems to be from him.