#like i forever understand if mania just Isnt someones things but ppl so often misunderstand the Point of it and That is just. such a shame

[thekidsarentalright]

hiiii! love your ask/answers with fob takes. and i have a couple on mania (not sure how unpopular -or coherent- they are)

- mania feels the most wholesome as an album for me (as well as smfs). i mean it's very hard for me to range fob albums, i love them all so much, so it's not about that. but with mania it really feels that the album is more than the sum of its songs, and it's so great and so important.

- i know lots of people hate/dislike champion, and while it's not my favorite song i simply love the implication that "if i can live through this" in the light of the album means manic and not depressive stage. or that these words are coming from the manic fevered mind. ...i guess what i'm trying to convey is that the album puts a distorted lens to it, and i love it so much.

- i've found a live performance of stay frosty and it sounds amazing live! joe's guitar really adds A LOT. and also it means that it's possible to bring it back. fingers crossed.

hehe ah i love to hear other ppl are having as much fun w this as i am!! and thank u for sharing some opinions of ur own!!

always love love love hearing mania praise like this augh <3 i definitely think because it's basically a concept album it is very much more than the sum of its song in a way, people often complain about how the album is kinda disjointed and all over the place not realizing thats kinda the point?? and actually adds to it being very cohesive and wholesome conceptually?? idk it's such a genius album in this way fr

YESSSSS anon bestie... u get it u literally get mania so so good like. although champion might not be their best song, i do think it both serves a great purpose of, in general out of the context of the album, just being like. a genuinely uplifting song? but also in the context of the album, as you said, being slightly distorted from the actual meaning of the words Because the album is supposed to be like. in the midst of a manic episode, how the narrator is feeling. and that idea is so so so cool

i am proud to say i got to hear stay frosty live during mania tour and Yeah it goes so so hard live, it's probably my least fav mania song but live it Really comes to life (thank u joe) <33 and that's such a good point actually like... if in the past they could do that live... then perhaps it means they Can bring it back... fob please