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Originally Posted by Walleris
Walls sounds shit.
It's the musical equivalent of your father who tries to be cool with your friends, but comes across as awkward with his dad jokes. I'm not crapping on this modern direction in general, but for it to succeed, the execution really matters. IMO, the only time they succeeded and it sounded pretty cool was We Don't Run. Other attempts (Walls, Born Again Tomorrow, Knockout) felt uninspired. I don't crap on Shanks as much as most people here, but he is a modern rock procuder, not EDM-pop. They should work with guys like Max Martin, Shellback, Kygo, etc. who know what their doing in THIS field. I'd love to hear that Avicii song with Jon.
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Yeah, very well put. Ever since, let's say Bounce, they tried to emulate the then-current popular sound too much and stopped sounding like themselves more and more. Of course, they've always gone a bit with what was popular, but in earlier times they incorporated modern sounds and made it sound like Bon Jovi. They're just not at the age anymore to appeal to a young peer group. For us fans it's rather embarassing and it goes unnoticed by the ones they're trying to reach with the rip-off sounds anyway.
The last time they went with a then-current sound and got it to be somehow fresh and modern was the HAND single. After that it was more or less attempt and fail.