“The Fall” by LoveJoy

When the band Lovejoy announced that they were going to release an EP, fans were ecstatic after their debut EP Are You Alright was released in May of this year. Not even a year after their debut, they pushed out another EP called Pebble brain. Only a week after if was released, it hit #12 on the UK’s album chart. 

I was very excited about this drop, having already listened to the previous album with my friends. Many fans were excited for one song in particular, “Concrete,” which was leaked by one of the band friends. Before listening to the entire album, I thought that “Concrete” would be my favorite song from the EP, however when the band released the album, the one song that stood out to me was “The Fall.” 

This song highlights how even though the world is “burning” around us, we still put on a smile and continue about our day like nothing is wrong. The lyrics — “ We’re so calm but were f***** scared f****** scared” — allow us to see how teens in this day and age are trying to seem okay. Especially with the rise in depression in teens, this song lets us see what we might not be able to tell others. 

Verse two comes in talking about the medications of Prozac and Sertraline which are common antidepressants. The lyrics, “A couple Prozacs, and now I’m pumping dopamine” continues into the singer saying “There must be more to this”.

The so-called “Breakdown” of the song is something that you don’t typically see in a song. The singer screams into a microphone, almost sounding as if he is having a mental breakdown. He starts the breakdown with the lyrics “So come on, one and all and see the apathy!” continuing with “I look at all of you and see a different f****** species” I think these lyrics speak the most to me. The use of the word apathy shows that the character that the singer is portraying is numb

The end of the song cuts off with an exhale, leaving the reader on a cliffhanger of what he was going to say, making you fill it in with what you think the lyric was going to say. I think the lyric ends with fall, hinting that once you reach your peak you can’t go anywhere but down.