M83 – Teen Angst

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  General Comment:im glad its was this band that turned teen feeling into music and words. teen feeling are perceived as... well.. immature, but this song and i have thought of a thesis on teen feelings:
  we are not clouded by the everyday worried of being an adult and getting too old while drifting from our feelings. our minds are unknowing but better understanding, since we are young and closer to our feelings

  Flag frankxavieron January 08, 2010   Link

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    bullshit. step inside a high school or log onto facebook for just a few minutes then try and tell me again that teenagers (or any age group) are in touch with their feelings, while they're all busy going to parties and making fun of the other cliques because they choose to dress or have fun differently than their own clique does, all because of some primitive subconscious thought process that they're too stupid to recognize and overcome to realize that damn near every kid in the building is the exact same. teens may not have minds clouded by trivial adult problems, but they have minds clouded by even more trivial teen problems instead.

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    But that´s not what it´s about. The `immature` or better `innocent` feeling, of childhood and teendom, is what the song is about, at least that´s what I make of it.

    Flag Quauhtlion July 14, 2012  
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  General Comment:Becoming a teenager, you reach that stage in your life where you begin to realize that there is alot of pain and unhappiness in the world, and that life isn't always fare. You are in that in between stage, no longer the innocent/ignorant child, but not yet the desensitized adult. The lyrics seem to suggest this...

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  General Comment:i dont know why this song makes me tear everytime i hear it..and iv heard it over 15 times..the first time i heard it, iwas holding my bfs hand, and i dont know what came over me, but it moved something inside me..
  simple lyrics but beautiful song

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  General Comment:I don't know where everyone is getting these theories for the last couple of lines. It could be 'I hear the planet crying' could be right as M83 are French and tend to pronouce their 'the's as 'ze's. But to me it seems that they're singing 'I hear somebody crying'. It certainly makes a lot more sense than 'Hate is a kinda crazy world' or whatever. As for the 'keep out' part... anyone's guess :P
  
  Just my thoughts.

  Flag poweroutageon January 23, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I always thought at the end he was saying
  "I am so glad we're crying."
  Either way, I love listening to this song. I remember the first time I heard it; it was the same reaction I had when I first heard "Don't Save Us from the Flames." I think this song has a pretty straight forward meaning, so simple and so beautiful.

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  General Comment:On second thought, maybe she's singing, "Keep on"?

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  General Comment:It's definitely "I'm so glad I'm crying" at the end.
  
  I also don't think the girl is saying "Teen angst" in the chorus. The first syllable sounds like a "K" to me. Maybe she's saying "Keep out?" I don't know.
  
  But yeah, great song. Definitely get the "floating above a city" vibe from it, too.

  Flag adamrobertton November 06, 2008   Link

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    I don't hear "teen angst" in the chorus, either. It sounds just like "Tina" to me, just like in "Don't Save Us From the Flames". (I mean, listen to that second syllable -- she's just singing "aahhhh". There are no consonants at the end of that sound.) On the other hand, the first syllable doesn't sound like it starts with a "T" -- I seem to hear "K", as well. Weird.

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  General Comment:this song is one of the best songs iv ever heard

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  General Comment:It's like listening to this song, overlooking a city. Looking to the universe. Open arms. It's a song for earth.

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  General Comment:oh and does anyone else hear him scream "tina" in the background throughout the instrumental part
  cause he always talks about tina. in america and in don't save us from the flames

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