Inilah cerita di balik album "Screamworks : Love Theory And Practice" dari Ville valo..
"It's not a happy album, I wouldn’t say that," kata valo waktu album tersebut release. "But for the first time HIM does acknowledge that there is such a thing called ‘happiness,’ even if it is far, far away. This album is more a speculation on how to get there, — and that it is possible."
Seperti lagu-lagunya "Heartkiller", "Dying Song," dan "Acoustic Funeral" seharusnya dapat menenangkan kekhawatiran para penggemar, meski lagu pembukanya diawali "In venere veritas" -In love there is truth. Valo sendiri menyedari bahwa album ini memliki emosi yang berbeda dari album sebelumnya Dark Light (2005) dan Venus Doom (2007).
"I've overheard similar sorts of things," he says. "Somebody said somewhere that sobriety doesn't suit me. So I guess I looked better to them when I was fucked up and miserable and terrible. People need a Baudelaire or Bukowski to live the pain for them. Well, easier said than done."
"The whole point of the album, what I was going for, is what I call melancholic levity," Valo says. "It's the kind of hopeful ‘tragic-ness’ that Depeche Mode does really well. When they play 'Enjoy The Silence,' which is one of my favorite songs, it's a really sad song but it makes you dance. That was my idea for the album rather than the gloomy-doomy stuff of the past."
Ide dari album itu sendiri diambil dari lagu "Enjoy The Silence" yang sebenernya adalah sad song tapi bisa ngebuat orang menari sambil bernyanyi ahhahahaha..... lebih baik daripada ngedengrin sad song yang muram suram madesu ahahhah...
bagaimanapun kata valo "it's way more tragic to see the light at the end of the tunnel, like if you know there's something better but you can't reach it. There's the urgency that there are things we want on a personal and spiritual level, that there is a possibility of swimming to shore, so to speak, but the beach is very far away and filled with natives with spears and shotguns. It's like the old torture method when you're in shackles and chains, tied to four horses dragging you into four directions to tear you apart. That's the vibe I wanted for this album."
Diproduseri oleh Matt Squire (Panic At the Disco!, Taking Back Sunday, Boys Like Girls), dalam waktu yang intensive di Los Angeles, Screamworks memebawa suara dan pandangan emosi yang berbeda membawa pada musik yang lembut.
"One of the things I felt, probably because of the sobriety, is that my addiction had to be the album — work 24/7 on the music. That means there's a sense of catharsis, letting everything be laid bare, as naked as you can be on the musical level. There's nothing to lose, really. If I'm being honest, you can say you don't like it and that's fine. Let's just say the album doesn't lack in honesty. And by that I mean all the musical influences and lyrics, all the personal stories that are hidden within the lyrical mess, are true to me.
keadaan itulah yang memaksakan lagu pembuka "In venere Veritas" yang sebenarnya lebih terkenal dengan ucapan “In Vino Veritas” (in wine there is truth).
"When the album was mastered we realized there's no better way to start than with the lyrics 'Let's fall apart together now,' and then the band just falling in so strongly," he says. "It contains the essence of Screamworks in six seconds, the sense that we will fall apart eventually. Everybody will. People are fragile and will wither away and die eventually, so why not do it together? It's very romantic in my mind — let's grow old together, but taken a step further. There’s no sense of irony. It's not 'Let's kill ourselves and be messed up,' but 'Let's celebrate that we are still here!' Pain is to be shared. Everyone feels that. Listening to a good rock record gets the heart pumping. That was my medication when I was a kid. I'd put on a KISS album or Black Sabbath and cleanse my mind of the things that were bugging me."
Alesannya bagus banget tuh.... artidari kalimat "Lets fall apart together now" setiap orang itu rapuh dan lemah dan akan meninggal suatu saat nanti, so why not do it together?. Tapi maksud sebenarnya adalah bahwa sebaiknya kita merayakannya bahwa kita masih ada disini. 'Let's celebrate that we are still here!'
Ungkapan yang cerdas dari ville valo itulah yang ngebuat saya sendiri suka banget sama dia.. He's my inspiration.
Berlanjut pada "Scared To Death" and the unexpected twists of "Heartkiller" (Heartkiller bereferensi dari Knight Rider theme dengan David Hasselhoff), the album is clearly full of surprises. "Dying Song" is an experiment influenced by Interpol, the Cure's Disintegration and Jane's Addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual. "Love The Hardest Way" references Billy Idol in the music and Baudelaire in the lyrics.
Diantara kedua lagu diatas, muncul lagu selanjutnya yang langsung melesat yaitu "Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)" yang kontras dan kontradiksi pada jiwa dari album itu sendiri. Dengan "Katherine Wheel" yang terinspirasi dari cerita St. Catherine of Alexandria.
Lanjut pada "In The Arms Of Rain" dan kenangan tentang mas mudanya bersama adiknya -melarikan diri dari badai musim panas. Untuk menutupi kekurangan maka "Shatter Me With Hope", "Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)" dengan persamaan dari Black Sabbath ("Electric Funeral" dan "not with a bang but a whimper") dan Neil Young's wistful ("Long May You Run.")
Emosi yang sesungguhnya berada pada lagu "Ode To Solitude" sepertio kata valo, dia berdamai dengan jalan hidupnya yang baru tanpa melupakan "teman lamanya" sendirian.
"I need to break from you dear solitude. You have been a wonderful companion all these years but I have to open the door to the world. Robert Lowell, an American poet, came up with the line that the light at the end of the tunnel is the light of an oncoming train. That's the classic saying for pessimists, the dry humor of appreciating hope. That's key to the whole album. We do have a light at the end of the tunnel and whether it is an oncoming train or not, we do have a few seconds to enjoy it before it hits us. That's my way of celebrating life." kata ville valo lagi... -screamworks
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