You've gotta remember that the poem section is supposed to be coming from the voice of a 15 year old girl. I took creative writing in high school, and I recall the same type of poems being read by people in my class. There aren't too many brilliant poets who are 15 years old. I think the "trite teenage emo" feel is totally intentional: it's being said by an emotional and incidently teenage girl after all.

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You've gotta remember that the poem section is supposed to be coming from the voice of a 15 year old girl. I took creative writing in high school, and I recall the same type of poems being read by people in my class. There aren't too many brilliant poets who are 15 years old. I think the "trite teenage emo" feel is totally intentional: it's being said by an emotional and incidently teenage girl after all.

yeah, and that seems to strangely offend many people here on MC......

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ts just disgusting, "Waiting for someone to love me/Waiting for someone to kiss me" that line just made me cringe and completely rethink the way I was considering this album

So you think that a girl who loves you is cheesy? You will reject someone who loves you? ...

No I think throwing those lines into a song is cheesy. Especially the "I'm fifteen years old/And I feel it's already too late to live./Don't you?", that's exactly the kind of narcissistic thinking of today's "emo generation" that pisses me off. We here are on metacritic weren't the only ones annoyed by it.

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/M83,5960

And I think the reviewer says it best when he says "I understand that the youthful naiveté of the ’80s serves as a running theme, but does that really justify these terrible lyrics? Bad teenage poetry isn’t usually glorified for a reason: It’s bad."

That line of the review really does explain it well.

The poem doesn't seem to highlight the 80s naivety, either. That poem could be pulled from the journal of any 15 year old in the past 50 years (at least).

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That line of the review really does explain it well.

So does this line which opens the review: "Full disclosure: I hate the vast majority of things that are typically ’80s."

I can't take a review too seriously that opens with such an ignorant and narrow-minded opinion. I don't like the poem either, but it doesn't single-handedly ruin an otherwise very good album.

Personally I don't mind the poem, it makes me smile because it's so over the top. All I can think about is that either Anthony Gonzalez had a crappy teenage life, or he is yearning to stay young.

Having listened to the album for the first time the past couple of days, I'm enjoying it. The poem certainly doesn't make a difference to me one way or the other.

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Having listened to the album for the first time the past couple of days, I'm enjoying it. The poem certainly doesn't make a difference to me one way or the other.

It doesn't bother any more either, its not near as cringe inducing as it was at first. I actually like how when its over, the music drops out and the keyboard line starts up again by itself. That little moment is so cheesy and 80's and awesome all at the same time.

I don't think the words are THAT bad in the poem, but I don't like the reading of it. I think it is bad acting.

Without doing any research because I am lazy, is that the same actress who did the spoken word stuff in the first song on Before the Dawn...?

I didn't like that very much for the same reason.

i think it's her sister.

Does someone saw the new M83 video for the song Kim and Jessie? It's horrible...worst video ever...sad...such a great track.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for choreographed Berkeley-esque (this guy has invaded or infested (depending) choreography) dancing (it's going to take a lot of lifts with accompanying guttural grunts to erase this sentence) but that video absolutely charmed me. It definitely seems in line with M83's current Hughes-80's aesthetic, if you can call it that. The only awkward moment was "The Big Lebowski" reference, not only an obvious one to make in such a situation but one that removes you from the world conjured by the video...and even if it's not a deliberate reference, it's still an awkward scene because you like totally don't see it coming.

I love the new album I can't believe all the grudge to the poem in Graveyard Girl in here. It's a line in a song on a great album.. let it go. If crying over how that line ruines everything for you isn't emo, then what is?

Sorry, but I think it's great to hear that he's trying out new ways and even though it's a bit cheesier that his previous outings, I think he really gets the whole 80's college feel he's talking so much about, and the videos reflect the same thing.