#idk if it's still a thing but I'll never understand where the rumour that frank contributed lyrics to mcr came from skdkdkd

[raytorosaurus]

been listening to past lives a lot and obviously all the guys put a lot of themselves into every song but antibodies feels like a very frank song to me? lyrically but musically too. i could be (and likely am) way off here but it's just a vibe. do you know if antibodies has come up specifically in interviews where they talk about the process of writing the record?

to the best of my knowledge, anthony wrote all the ls dunes lyrics! they were purely an instrumental band trading riffs and building parts at first (i feel like i even remember them tossing around the idea of just staying a purely instrumental band if they couldn't find the right vocalist?). and antibodies was one of the first songs they wrote together and the first one they sent to anthony to add lyrics + vocals to, which is when they knew he'd fit right in. i have zero experience in songwriting myself so this could be a v skewed data pool lol but i feel like most bands i've read interviews from add lyrics and vocals in last like like that - i'd guess that mcr's in the minority in usually doing things differently tbh (which is probs one of the reasons ls dunes sounds So different from mcr!)

anyway at a guess id say this is one of the songs that tim started with a bass riff, bc the bass in it fucks and is pretty melodic, and then travis talks here about how it was the first set of riffs they all passed around, and how he immediately jumped into messed around with an alternate tuning to write it. it does sound like a frank song but i'd say it also sounds like a travis song to me! and the lyrics definitely sound very anthony imo!! but yk they work together as a band bc they have different enough approaches to be interesting but similar enough tastes and goals to gel, so i reckon antibodies is more an example of how well all of them work together than anything else!

also bc i love this video, frank has said the bridge is one of his favourite guitar parts on the album! (also the alternate tuning he mentions here is different from the alternate tuning travis mentioned before, which is cool. defs a song that was written by ppl in different rooms hahaha)