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omegalomania · 1 year ago

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we do not know and might not ever know the full story behind mania and the circumstances under which it was produced but we know enough by now to understand that there was a lot of strife and frustration involved in the way it came about. the band has been clear on this much. the divisive reception upon release didn't help any. and we know the last time that happened with folie, it led to that record essentially being forgotten and aggressively sidelined for years afterward. the roughness of its reception was explicitly one of the things that patrick especially cited as difficult for him to look back on, and one of the reasons it took so long for him to embrace those songs again.

it took mania five years what took folie a full hiatus and double that time.

this too is healing.

#*making poasts #i have my own ~case study~ i wanna write abt mania one day but it is not this day #i know part of it is that the mania tour was their last headlining tour prior to this one so those songs are newer #and the second is that these things do simply take time #but im glad theyve acknowledged their 7th child again...shes important to me #folie - brilliant as it was - also came from a period of immense internal friction #folie had more time to soothe over than mania has #but it means a lot that theyre working so hard to reforge that bitterness into something they can look at with fondness #it all comes back to that kintsugi feeling....doesnt it ever

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