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What Are they About?


Today, at about 3:00, I couldn't get any sleep, I was awoken by the low pressures of an oncoming storm, and I couldn't go back to sleep because the pressure was so low that my nose started bleeding. For the next three hours, I sat upright, in the dark, waiting for the sunrise to come, listening to music. My MP3 player was on shuffle, and a !!! song from the controversial album Louden Up Now came on. I turned shuffle off, and immediately listened to the album in full. It had been years since I last listened to this album, so I gave it a go and suddenly something hit me. Besides making danceable music, what is the purpose or message Nic Offer* is trying to convey? Well, contrary to popular belief, it's not just dancing, getting drunk and being an idiot. In fact, it's completely different....


!!! is going on about freedom of speech. Clearly, with the amount of expletives going on, they're talking about freedom, and how it's gradually fading away as we all become uniform and reserved. Nic Offer wants to stay young, be stupid and say whatever he wants, and he's not going to let any laws or rules get in his way. I like to think of !!! as the intelligent version of BrokeNCYDE.


Another thing I noticed is the fact that no indie kids go to their shows. If you look at their live videos, there are no people with Indie traits such as converse or scarves or anything. They want to make them feel nervous, almost. I mean, I've never seen an Indie kid dance, and Nic Offer pretty much forces people to get up and dance while he has a quasi-dance flipout on stage. !!! is probably the most fun punk-funk band out there, and Indie kids are the exact polar opposite of fun.


Also, this band has a pretty cool fanbase, but the !!! haters are pretty bad. Sure, Nic can't sing even if his life depended on it, but you shouldn't even be paying attention to what the bro is saying. Pay attention to the instrumentation if you don't like their music. The psychedelic elements in the instrumentals are brilliant. If you've payed attention to what's going on in the Louden Up Now epic When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Karazee, you would notice how psychedelic and hauntingly beautiful it is. So if you don't like the band, don't go around saying that they're stupid or their music is talentless or anything, just don't say anything because this band is incredibly talented and intelligent- in disguise.