Crimson_Iris_72's Album Review
The debut album of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is finally here! You've seen the music video for their first single Face Down. You've heard previews of their songs. Now it's time to hear the real, slightly altered thing!
If I've ever heard something that was both original and unoriginal at the same time, it has to be RJA's Don't You Fake It. Most of the songs in this album sound so familiar to a few other famous bands, but I've never heard such songs all be put into one CD.
The debut album opens with a screamo-pop style song premiered as "Ass Shaker." This song was renamed In Fate's Hands, which was the first name for RJA. Lyrics such as "I remember a year ago I was standing in the crowd; waiting for my chance to break through, my chance to live again..." give off the message that this song is about them getting into the music business.
Skip over a track to find False Pretense, a song that at times sounds like one by Panic at the Disco. The song gets into a cool clapping part at the bridge. This must have taken a lot of practice to time the claps together perfectly. This ends up to be a great addition to the song.
Track four is Face Down, the band's first single and music video. This song is the only one on the CD that went through three changes before being recorded in a final version onto the disc. The first version was originally almost completely screamo. The second version is what one would see in the music video. It has no screaming anymore, and switches around the arrangment of some of the verses. The third version adds a backgorund lyric or two that is shouted.
No matter what version you hear of Face Down, the message is always clear: it's leading the fight against female abuse. This is probably the best meaning the entire CD has, but is shown so simplisticly with lyrics such as "Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?" and "face down in the dirt, she said; 'This doesn't hurt' she said; 'I've finally had enough.'" Other lyrics are symbolic to show that what goes around come around. A good example is this: "A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect; every action in this world will bear a consequence; if you wade around forever you will surely drown..."
Skipping over another track will lead you to Cat and Mouse. This song is the slowest-moving song on the whole CD, but is a good change from the regular feeling of the rest of the album. There is also another song similar to this, but I'll get into that later.
"Seventeen Ain't So Sweet," the ninth track, is a song with a clear meaning stated right in the title. "Seventeen is just a test, and I would recommend that you live with no regrets" is a way to look at life when your seventeen. But results to your view end up 50/50.
(I'll finish more of this later.)
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