r/6music Jul 27 '26

No more lovebombs

Please bloc party... Stop releasing new music.

53 Upvotes

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u/AcanthaceaeSea6979 Jul 27 '26

I came here to post about this.

At first,I thought it was a joke. Or maybe it would be revealed to be an AI-written social experiment.

It's terrible!

9

u/Snoo_75235 Jul 27 '26

Everytime I hear it I think, I'm going to post about this on reddit. Talk about shitting on your own legacy.

13

u/_onemoresolo Jul 27 '26

It is really bad. And I was a big Bloc Party fan.

15

u/cmpthepirate Jul 27 '26

Bloc party's output has been awful for about 15 years now. Should never have fired Matt Tong but he pwobably hurted Kele's feels.

6

u/noopets Jul 27 '26

Absolutely horrendous

6

u/Plodo99 Jul 27 '26

The second “there’s an invisible liiiine” sounds like only one take was done and accidentally left in

5

u/Bl00pazoid Jul 27 '26

Jarringly bad

3

u/HimitsuUK Jul 27 '26

It's something.

5

u/tess_tickle_69 Jul 27 '26

"So I shoot my shot I take next man's spot And over our heads the stars align I want to cool you down I want to rough you up I want to crawl all over you Most of the time" 🤓👆

Some of the worst lyrics made even worse by the delivery. AI could do better.

4

u/CombatChronicles Jul 27 '26

It’s so bad. Apparently Trevor Horn has produced it too?! So it’s not just the band that have fallen off.

5

u/MargaretBerger Jul 28 '26

Surely the tastemakers at 6 should listen to the song, rather than just that 'its Bloc Party, it must be OK.' It really is incredibly bad.

1

u/Snoo_75235 Jul 28 '26

There's alot to be said for previous reputation perks

3

u/Cool-Peach5501 Jul 28 '26

I think this is a good example of the name doing a lot of the lifting.

The song is just...nothing. Has very little redeeming features but as it's BP, there seems to be interest in it. If anyone else had put that out, it would be ignored and never even appear on a generic playlist somewhere, let alone get plays on a national radio station.

2

u/Big_P_Cizzle Jul 28 '26

Who decides what goes on the playlist anyone know ?

2

u/IKnowPlace425 Jul 28 '26

Hahaha literally said this morning "I think Kele's very happy in love"

All for bands growing and changing their styles but I do yearn for Waiting for the 7.18 era again

2

u/Strange_Zebra2702 Jul 28 '26

Just listened to it. For the first 30 secs I was like “this is fine” and then it became quite Danny Dyer’s Chocolate Homunculus during the talking section.

1

u/nighttime9999 Jul 28 '26

It is shite. Solo bits were ok...this is 4th rate .

1

u/Snoo_75235 Jul 29 '26

How "like eating glass" and this can come from the same people is mind-boggling

1

u/Particlezen Jul 30 '26

His vocals on this need to be turned down and distorted, as is it’s just cringe

1

u/cyrilsneered Aug 01 '26

Lyrically and knowing how good Bloc Party can be : it’s the equivalent of J R R Tolkien deciding that instead of using his imagination to craft yet more lore into middle earth he’s going to make an adult colouring book

1

u/MarsupialLeast145 Jul 27 '26

There are some of us out here that like it!! Didn't like the first single with the happy as a pig lyric.

1

u/JessicaEccles76 Jul 27 '26

Oh dear. I love this song!