#79 on the 2012 Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Year-End #26 on the 2011 Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Year-End #47 on the 2011 Alternative Songs Year-End #72 on the Greatest of All Time Mainstream Rock Songs #45 on the 2012 Mainstream Rock Tracks Year-End #11 on the 2011 Mainstream Rock Tracks Year-End Issued Novem#2 previous week - 3 weeks at #1 Issued Octo#2 previous week - 4 weeks at #1 Written by Aaron Lewis, Johnny April, Mike Mushok, and Jon Wysocki
But unlike other songs with the same premise like Sir Elton John's The Bitch Is Back, Lowlife is not fun enough to be endearing. That song is from the perspective of a guy who openly embraces how much of a scumbag he is.
This album is at least 75% songs like Bad Girlfriend while the rest is made up of generically sentimental songs that are ridiculously out-of-place on an album that starts with Lowlife. Unfortunately, Christine and Kara's involvement didn't help. Or perhaps the band was criticized for Bad Girlfriend and wanted more female involvement to counter that criticism, which is why the band brought in Kara DioGuardi (a songwriter behind a number of big pop hits from throughout the 2000s and 2010s) to co-write some stuff for the album. It was such a gross display of meathead masculinity that you wouldn't know the singer's wife co-wrote it unless someone told you.īut figuring it worked the first time they let Tyler Connolly's wife Christine co-write a song, the band let her have more involvement in the writing of their 2011 album The Truth Is. I'll tell you why not: Bad Girlfriend wasn't that good. #34 on the 2011 Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Year-Endīad Girlfriend was a big hit, so Theory of a Deadman must have thought "Why not make a whole album of songs just like it?" #10 on the 2011 Mainstream Rock Tracks Year-End Issued Aug#2 previous week - 3 weeks at #1 Until the rise of a visionary new culture that once again embraces the cosmic perspective a perspective in which wee are one, fitting neither above nor below, but within.Written by Dave Brenner, Dean Back, Joey Dandeneau, Tyler Connolly, and Christine Danielle Connolly In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people & nations would be prone to act on their low contracted prejudices, and we would have seen the last gasp of human enlightenment. The day we cease ethe exploration of the cosmos is the day we threaten the continuing of our species. Ther are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the worlds' beaches, more stars in the universe than seconds of time that have passed since Earth formed, more stars than words & sounds ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived. However big our world is, our hearts, our minds, our outside atmosphere, the universe is even bigger. I see a universe ever-expanding, with its galaxies embedded within the ever-stretching four-dimensional fabric of space and time. When I track the orbits of asteroids, comet,s and planets, each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet, choreographed by the forces of gravity, I see beyond the plight of humans.
Do we admit that our thoughts & behaviors spring from the belief that the world revolves around us? Each fabricated conflict, self-murdering bomb, vanished airplane, every fictionalized dictator, biased or partisan, and wayward son, are part of the curtains of society's racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts, and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers. Sufferers hurl themselves into the arms of war people kill and get killed in the name of someone else's concept of God. And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound. Stripped of their essence before their time High from the heavens, I can't see the pain It has a cameo monologue from Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and a 7 minute and 30 seconds instrumental at the beginning. It is Avenged Sevenfold's longest song to date, at 15 minutes and 41 seconds. Exist is the eleventh and final song on Avenged Sevenfold's 2016 album, The Stage.