“We are young, we have heart, born to this world as it all falls apart"
From the moment the song begins, there’s an anthemic thrill to it that makes you think maybe, just maybe, this is another flag-raising song for teenage angst, however corny.
But the only flag this song raises is one with a gigantic question mark. Not because of the masks the band members wear to keep their identities shrouded in mystery. But rather because listening to the song makes you wonder whether Linkin Park has released new music unbeknown to the rest of their fans or POD is mustering up music that basks in the former glory of Youth of the Nation.
Frontman deliberately paced and monotonously toned vocals are a rap rhyme rehash of Mike Shinoda and the bands arena-style grandeur seems to tribute the metal guitar chants of POD
Yes it is hard to imagine it’s the same behind that gave us Kids, which was one of the most requested songs on TNL and got almost a million plays in a week, until of course you listen to the lyrics (which are hard to miss given the way they are chanted in your face over and over again).
Once again the band delves into the teenage beating the world is getting, though this time not thundering and wailing about society’s adolescent-phobia but rather about the promise of a revolution-raising unity that mere youthfulness of age can propel.
Yes, those kinds of revolutions that kids start at dinner table arguments with parents on curfew and which usually only grow as much as picket thrusting display outside college campus.
The song is taken off their debut album, Swan Songs, which they released late last year when they were signed on to A&M/Octone Records, and which reached number 22 on the Billboard charts in just its first week of release.
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