Misfits – personal, calm, touching

The last song of Threat To Survival is completely calm. The personal development seems fulfilled. While Asking For It was still wild and impetuous, it is now clear who the lyrical I is and where it wants to go – as well as the record and the band.

Misfits starts with singing right away. The deep voice is also gone. The instruments form a carpet on which the voice is carried, but they are unobtrusive themselves. The I, the voice, is put in focus very clearly because the song is exactly about that.

Again, the motive is clear: you do not belong but others do not as well and together you can walk through life and be very happy. Here, a connection to the band members can be imaginable who went through a development together. While they stood together on a battlefield in the beginning of the record, this is now a promise to always stand together.

This feeling is underlined by the use of background voices that have an own part in the song where only the listener hears only them. Different voices are hearable; a strong collective spirit comes across.

In Misfits, too, the rhythm is somehow dominant, even though it is calmer than before. The development has come to an end for the moment and the result is satisfying for the band; and also for the listener.

Favorite line: “They called us crazy ‘cause we never fit in. We never bothered keeping up with their trends. It didn’t matter that we weren’t on the list ‘cause we were misfits.”

Listen to Shinedown's Misfits here:

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