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And all the money I spend is my money again I'll understand what is said when I'm out with my friends And at the end of the night Baby, I'ma gon' drive 'em home And all the time that I waste repeating the mistakes And the ridiculous taste and the look on my face I'm gonna take it back Baby, I don't love you no more

- "I Don't Love You Anymore", Get Warmer (2007), Bomb the Music Industry!

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i think theres something just so genuine and beautiful about the delivery of get warmer's title track

i havent listened to much of btmis discography, but get warmer is such a gorgeously earnest track that i always come back to and it just- AAUGH.... it does my heart in

such a beautiful song I SWEARRR

#its something about the instrumentals. it feels like the song that plays when the song ends and the sufferings all over #maybe im just making shit up at 12 am but this song feels so final and so like. incredibly significant #like end credits to existence type beat #i think the only songs that give me the same amount of emotional impact as this one is expert in a dying field， stars were exploding，#american healthcare and rat #which probably says more abt me than the songs but whatever LMAOO shrug #bomb the music industry #get warmer #indie thoughts #indie rock

Depression Is No Fun / I Don’t Love You Anymore

In addition to “Bike Test 1 2 3,” BTMI!’s album Get Warmer also has two of their most up-front internal/personal struggle songs, “Depression Is No Fun” and “I Don’t Love You Anymore.” The former features a great chorus line that bluntly sums the problem up: “Got a lot of shit in my head, / You know we got to pull it together, / ‘Cause it’s not gonna stop until we’re dead.” But its bigger triumph, I would argue, is a musical one. In that chorus, the opening chords begin the song in a major key, but by the second line, the key unexpectedly shifts into a minor one, throwing the listener for a loop in terms of the kind of harmonic change they’d typically expect from such a ska song. Interestingly, this is not how the song starts – the minimal organ-and-voice part that opens the song with its first chorus uses the more common chord change under the same melody and proceeds largely as expected aside from perhaps its ominous final chord. Only then does the song proceed into the first chorus in which the trick minor modulation is pulled. It’s disarming and destabilizing, which works pretty damn well in conveying the song’s evocation of discomfort and frustration with depression. The same goes for the sudden bursts of hardcore punk noise that punctuate the verses. It’s a song about dealing with difficult emotions that you have to confront anyway, which could be why Jeff made it hard to ignore on a musical level.

“I Don’t Love You Anymore” is not, of course, a breakup song about any relationship with a real person – for their lyrical bluntness, BTMI! is still rarely that straightforward. And so in this case, the breakup is between Jeff and alcohol. I don’t want to be too presumptuous about Jeff’s relationship with alcohol, but if this song and some other lyrics are to be taken as reflective of his personal life, I think it’s fair at least to say that he’s struggled with it. And while he may not have quit alcohol forever after releasing “I Don’t Love You Anymore,” I hope this song was at least therapeutic for him and helped a lot of other people out there. Above all, it’s fucking awesome. It opens with a blatant rip-off of Otis Redding’s “I Can’t Turn You Loose,” but like most BTMI! songs, it keeps changing and developing in its shifting intensities. The rhythmic accents change dramatically between sections of the song, reaching their peaks with the repeated phrases that mark the end of the pre-chorus (“I get increasingly sick, and I stop thinking quick, / And I act like a dick, like a dick, like a dick...”) and the straight-eighth shout of the title phrase that caps off the chorus: “BABY, I DON’T LOVE YOU NO MORE!”

Not only is this an excellent song to pump yourself up to when listening alone, it’s practically built to be a live powerhouse, too. There’s something about that bridge (“Get off your ass and work this out, / Don’t be such a bastard to yourself”) that demands a communal sing-along, as well as the ensuing call-and-response “Yeah” section that gradually builds the tempo back up to its starting point after a brief slow-down. Quitting drinking is a thing that a lot of people struggle with, and I’m sure that trying to do it alone is no easy feat. The “we do this together” sentiment of “I Don’t Love You Anymore” (ironic for a song that has a personal relationship as its pretext, but it’s definitely there) might help those people to feel that they’re not alone, and that these things can be easier when you work on them together with others.

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