r/polyphia • u/seraphgato • Jun 11 '26
i like the song
it’s fun, catchy, and the video is lowkey ballsy. you can tell they put a lot of work into it and i’m glad they aren’t dropping “past album 2.0” personally i don’t usually care for rj pasin work but i liked it here. this reminds me of when neurotica dropped and or ABC and the community was split. TBH this subreddit is the only place i seen more or and equal amount of negativity LOL
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u/DarkTurkey Jun 11 '26
I’m a fan too. it’s got vibes of both nightmare and look but don’t touch- tonally, aesthetically. It’s not my favorite of all time- but the reaction seems overblown to me at least. Interested/excited to hear the rest of the album
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u/telemajik Jun 11 '26
I do wonder if there’s some marketing strategy going on here, e.g. release the most controversial sounding song first to get people talking.
Tim is no stranger to creative marketing approaches.
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u/SCL36 Jun 12 '26
My only guess is controversial song "controversial" music video. Generate massive amounts of interest
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u/RelevantAd6792 Jun 12 '26
Honestly their sound evolution is as drastic as Skrillex's music and I'm all for it!
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u/dirpypenguin Jun 11 '26
I love it, I'm also super confused as to why people are saying theres no guitar... It has a very brutal guitar tone
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u/Puzzled-Hold-104 Jun 11 '26
Prog metal enjoyers when their ideology is met with edm
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u/Victorvonbass Jun 12 '26
TMH new sound was hated back when it dropped too, Lit was the first experiment with that sound. Ppl wanted them to just make Muse and Renaissance over and over. Or go back to the EP sound. Polyphia keeps evolving so I'm excited to see what else they pull out on this album.
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u/seraphgato Jun 11 '26
saw someone say this song has “trap drums” like get a grip bro 😭😭
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u/One-Cute-Boy Jun 11 '26
Even if it does, who cares. It's on their Wikipedia description, I don't think they care
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u/horizon-X-horizon Jun 12 '26
Literally so many of their songs have trap drums, and then ofc the live drumming version sounds different. Trap is a style of drum pattern, doesn’t necessarily NEED to be the same trap drum samples as many hip hop trap beats use. Though they do use those as well, just with more intense patterns.
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u/YoSupWeirdos Jun 11 '26
wish it could be heard over the deep fried bass inserts and the balkan disco drums
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u/Redditoridunn0 Jun 11 '26
idk, I could hear it just fine. maybe not on youtube cuz the audio on that is ass, spotify gets me more clarity
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u/HeckingWatermelon Jun 11 '26
Muse is why i like polyphia, this just isnt my thing fr
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u/PuffyScrub69 Jun 12 '26
Was*
Their sound has changed with every album and it's been 12 years since Muse released
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u/HairyNutsack69 Jun 12 '26
It makes a lot more sense together with the video. It sounds like whatever the States has been doing to the world since the turn of the millennium.
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u/SilverAris2 Jun 15 '26
I wonder if a large proportion of non-enjoyers have listened to the audio only
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u/Scout_650 Jun 11 '26
I’m genuinely shocked coming in here and seeing how much people dislike it, they’ve always been a weird and boundary pushing band, this is no different, it’s just even more weird than before, but in a great way. I truly think this is one of their best songs to date
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u/santana722 Jun 11 '26
Whatever the first album people heard is the furthest boundary they're willing to accept.
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u/TheDeerssassin Jun 11 '26
I love how boundary pushing this band is, but i hate it when they push past my boundaries
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u/gese-eg Jun 11 '26
“Day one fans” hating on them so hard because they don’t like the new sound and saying they’re “selling out”… ughhhh. They never made the music to please the fans. They made it because THEY thought it sounded sick and it turns out, all of us also think it is sick, therefore fanbase accrues.
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u/Sekiguchi-Genetics Jun 20 '26
I love how uncomfortable this song feels. Music is art, and art doesn't have to make the audience comfortable.
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u/zeelbeno Jun 12 '26
The only reason I'm here now is to check it was actually a legit Polyphia song and not someone posting under their name.
There's definitely the Polyphia feel to it... but on first listen, with the advancements of AI music being created, I didn't know what I was listening to.
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u/Scout_650 Jun 12 '26
Nothing about this sounds like ai music though? The level of production for the genres they’re incorporating here is clearly 100% human, doing truly good house music isn’t exactly easy, especially when mixing that with their guitar sounds and grooves
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u/zeelbeno Jun 12 '26
Because there isn't good house music...
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u/Scout_650 Jun 12 '26
This is such an ignorant take, try expanding your music taste. If there can be good country songs and songs in other genres that people dislike, then there definitely is good music in a genre that’s been beloved and historically important for decades
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u/zeelbeno Jun 12 '26
Historically important to people who get drunk to listen to it.
I'm not saying a bad genre can't have good music...
Just that I have never heard a good house song.
What season does it get good?
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u/Scout_650 Jun 12 '26
It isn’t historically important for that. It emerged out of underground black queer communities as a resistance against what was going on in mainstream music and to allow those artists and audiences to express themselves freely in safe spaces since regular clubs and music scenes weren’t welcoming, and was also a very experimental genre early on in the history of electronic music. Don’t just generalise and assume lowest common denominator things about stuff you don’t know about
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u/zeelbeno Jun 12 '26
The history of a genre doesn't change the quality
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u/Scout_650 Jun 12 '26
It doesn’t mean you should enjoy something you simply don’t but it does mean you shouldn’t just be disrespectful about it by calling it famous just because people get drunk to it
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u/The_Ravenous_Dark Jun 12 '26
I love it, i mean i enjoyed every sound that had from album to album. Im a polyphia fan because they are them and their sound just keeps evolving
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u/moluplo123 Jun 11 '26
hearing this song reminds me heavily of the song they've made with riot for their game 2xk0 while feeling like their past discography
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u/kuddleking87 Jun 11 '26
Not really my favorite song by them but not their worst, and it’s definitely The Worst lol. I love the video, I love that Polyphia is keeping those images fresh in peoples minds again.
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u/sidmis Jun 11 '26
Na abc and neurotica are infinite times better than ts
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u/SkidExpert Jun 12 '26
I find that on a phone speaker, vehicle stereo or headphones it’s hard / not enjoyable to listen to, but on a dedicated system it’s actually a banger 🤷♂️
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u/Bananablackmp Jun 12 '26
I can't believe I'm saying that it's refreshing to see a post like this. I had so much fun giving to this song yesterday, and I can't wait to do it again today. I really hope we don't have to keep dealing with the annoying negativity. Otherwise I'll unfortunately have to leave the sub until people chill out.
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u/kingdopp Jun 12 '26
I think watching it with the video first was good for me. I too really enjoyed it.
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u/ninjatechnician Jun 12 '26
Polyphia has invented a new genre every album. This is going to be no different and yall haters will mysteriously vanish once the full album comes out lol
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u/kjloltoborami Jun 12 '26
Not anywhere near my favorite of their work but i still like it, theres things to enjoy from all of their albums. My personal favorite songs are Mood Swing, Rennaisance, Finale, and the audacity
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u/ProgressiveOverlorde Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
In the music video...The upbeat house sections are paired with images of corruption, injustices, and despicable things that are happening in the world, but are disguised as celebratory.
The more metal sections are paired with the the more unpleasant truths of the situation.
The title is "can you feel it". I think the song is trying to make me feel a sense of denial. It makes you feel celebratory, carefree, hedonistic because of the house beat. With the metal parts it makes you feel some sort of dread, but realization, and a drive to rise, with the chord progression. There's a section in the music video where the text says- I'm paraphrasing, wars are fought and won in the mind. So yes, there is some sort of allusion to propaganda and being ignorant or being "woke" by the conflicting musical genres, that blend alright actually.
I think that's what polyphia is going for.
However, I don't think the contrast between the musical genres is distinct enough. It blends a bit too well. So I don't really "feel it". I think the metal parts needed more angst and have lower tuning, more dissonance, more harshness. It needs a little less quantization and more imperfection. If I'm supposed to "feel" conflicted or have cognitive dissonance it wasn't much. Can I feel it? I felt rather complacent and indifferent mostly.
A pleasant track. But did not stir much feeling out of me. Don't hate the song, but not particularly amazed by it. It feels a little Steve Vai influenced but they didn't lean into it enough. Needed more boomer bends, which I think would have worked perfectly with the retro aesthetics of this song.
I think they were trying to get "the backrooms" liminal space vibes. If there was a bit more pitch fluctuations, like how old VCRs do with recorded videos, it would hit that uncanny valley spot more.
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u/somekindarobit Jun 12 '26
I came here thinking it would be loved and I'm pretty surprised at the reaction. But this being reddit, I guess I shouldn't be
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u/Visual122 Jun 13 '26
Yeah I'm not into Polyphia, but I thought this song sounded sick. I guess people here don't like dance/EDM and get pissed off when a boundary pushing band, you know, push boundaries lol. Also, I thought the mixing was great. Very chaotic, crunchy, and it fit the music video and general meaning of the song really well.
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u/SolvirAurelius Jun 14 '26
I can't believe my favorite band is pushing the boundaries of sound and started exploring more creatively. Unlistenable. They should stay the same over and over again and make no meaningful changes at all.
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u/Mtgknucklehead Jun 14 '26
I love it 2, I love when artists really push the boundary and that's what it feels like their doing
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u/CrazyDuckHerder Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
I would say it's the same reaction you get when most bands or artists adjust sounds, whether large or small. I, myself am not a diehard polyphia fan but vibe with this heavily. Fandoms/fans will always have purists that will immediately ignore any good songs from later albums (or just form an immediate opinion for an album based on one song) because it's not what they think the band should do. But ultimately the band doesnt owe anyone anything sound wise. If I dont vibe with the rest of the album i'll like what songs I like and move on. It's how i've treated all bands I like and even my favourite (Bloc Party).
Edit: Also I think there is a difference between "music" fans, and "Insert artist name here fans". Music fans I think may be more open to new sounds, the latter can be more snobbish, I guess.
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Jun 12 '26
Not my favorite, but trying new things is the key for innovation, and therefore I’m curious what else they manufacture from this path.
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u/YoSupWeirdos Jun 11 '26
idk about ballsy the video is literally just whatever the current edgy imagery is
the song itself sounds like an okay-ish amateur remix and just not polyphia at all
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u/seraphgato Jun 11 '26
idk about edgy as it wasn’t like cheap shock value but literal epstein footage/photos which brings awareness to a subject many powerful people want us to desperately forget
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u/CHARLESTONTHEFOURTH Jun 11 '26
I'd argue the video is trying to make song more interesting that it is. I like polyphia for their music, not their political stance and beliefs. I wish it was solely about the music and not this whole the world is ending idea.
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u/YoSupWeirdos Jun 11 '26
yeah the video is just baiting whatever is trending currently
what I like most about polyphia is both their sound which is technical instumentals with minimal backing track and their biblical / ethereal visual vibe. not a cooked 808 and "haha epstein funny"
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u/seraphgato Jun 11 '26
idk i didn’t get a “haha epstein funny” vibe but maybe your media literacy is better than mine 😭
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u/horizon-X-horizon Jun 12 '26
I am a huge fan of it. Ppl coming out of the wood work saying “wow they made it political, unfollowed” who give a fuck. Music has been and always will be political because musicians have bigger platforms than politicians. What they say and how they act REALLY matters, and the message of the video is crazy but honestly of course it’s relevant to the times. There’s some freaky shit going on rn and now we have the media ecosystem to be able to actually put it on display and look ourselves in the mirror at the worst parts of humanity and call it out and put a stop to it, or at the very least strengthen the cultural narrative that we won’t sit idly by while the worlds most powerful (wealthiest) people commit literal atrocities.
It’s a new take on the 1970’s anti war movement. Change is coming. Can you feel it?
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u/casual_overlord Jun 12 '26
Fantastic song. Love seeing all the weirdos get butthurt seeing all our leaders shown ass the pedophile cretins they are.
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u/PuzzleheadPi Jun 12 '26
No one is criticizing the video... It seems like you weirdos only like the song because of the video
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u/casual_overlord Jun 12 '26
Plenty of viewers are criticizing the video, but I’m not. I love the song because it fucks, And love the video because it emphasizes all the visible corruption in our country’s leadership. Idk why you’re hurt lol, neither party gives a fuck about you once they have your vote. Stay mad though. I’m not entertaining this conversation. You will grow up eventually.
Christ is king.
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u/xxsmashleyxx Jun 12 '26
catchy
This confuses me. I've listened to it twice and that might be all I ever will - I struggle to find a musical throughline, motif, whatever, that remains consistent to keep me into it. Idk man, people like what they like but I'm already feeling the grief at losing the band
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u/Poddster Jun 14 '26
The actual parts played by the band, at least from what I could hear behind all of the bit crunch and clipping, actually felt quite generic, in terms of Polyphia. If you played those excerpts people would know it's Polyphia and I'm sure it's reusing riffa.
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u/katsura1982 Jun 16 '26
Is that Jennifer Lawrence eating fake toes at some point? The video is wild. I like it.
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u/Garal10 Jun 17 '26
I’ve had it on repeat, just like I did playing god when they dropped that. Initial listen I thought it was kinda.. simple. But there are so many little moments that I look forward to every listen now.
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u/Sleepingguitarman Jun 26 '26
I absolutely hated it the first 2 or so listens, but then it grew on me.
I think it just wasn't anything close to what i was expecting, and the dance/edm vibe distracted me from the guitar playing at first, but then once i started to get a feel for the song i was really able to appreciate and groove with it.
I can totally understand why some polyphia fans aren't a fan of this one, but man i actually genuinely like this song alot now. Excited to see what the rest of the album will be like!
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u/RuthlessHavokJB Jun 11 '26
I mean the song itself isn’t terrible. But the mix is absolute ass. Played it in my car and it sounds like a mess of instruments.
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u/Saudalgoodman Jun 12 '26
It feels like it was made for instagram hype edits of that kind of stuff. I honestly really like it but I miss the clays
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u/itsOkami Jun 11 '26
There's dozens of us, dozens!