If the comments on their social media accounts are anything to go by, Bring Me The Horizon‘s newly released album “Amo” is set to be a divisive album. While the band originally found fame as a deathcore act, their continued evolution has now seen them go full pop on various tracks featured on this latest release and some of their longtime fans clearly aren’t ready to embrace that.
One of the band’s peers, The Word Alive frontman Tyler “Telle” Smith, has taken to social media to not only voice his support for the band, but musical experimentation in general. He stated across a series of tweets:
I told you genres are dead.
Hopefully now everybody can shut the fuck up & like what you like.
Bring on the musical revolution, where your favorite band can be a “hit shuffle” playlist of every mood & emotion.
People asked how streaming would impact music most, this is it ????
— TELLE SMITH (@tellesmith) January 25, 2019
You stopped buying music. You stopped supporting artists. You wanted quantity over quality, or at least you thought you did.
Consumption is up, but spread out to millions of artists. So what did you think would happen? That itch to experiment in every artist has awoken.
— TELLE SMITH (@tellesmith) January 25, 2019
There’s no box you can fit an artist into that they won’t inevitably break out of.
Whether it’s Queen, The Beatles, Metallica or all the way to Twenty One Pilots, Bring Me The Horizon etc there comes a time in music where artists ignore the formula of doing what they are told.
— TELLE SMITH (@tellesmith) January 25, 2019
To everybody saying the new Bring Me The Horizon is pop… If this shit is what I hear on the radio I’m down. But POP just is short for popular and that’s what they deserve.
Annnd it’s so much more than that.
Standout tracks: mother tongue, heavy metal, medicine, wonderful life pic.twitter.com/FhMga8pGSM
— TELLE SMITH (@tellesmith) January 25, 2019
Also as long as we have @Architectsuk being one of the best heavy bands ever quit fucking complaining.
Bang your heads to them, bang your heads to @ArianaGrande, bang your heads to @sigurros, bang your heads to @themaine and @TheWordAlive will always be there too ??
— TELLE SMITH (@tellesmith) January 25, 2019
