#mm07

people who refer to maple leaves as ONLY "julian's old band". especially franzies who do it (hold up, i have an explaination fffor that)

well, yeah. that is true, but it fffeels like its reducing maple leaves to only JULIAN'S. ya know what i mean?

and i'll just say this. julian was only in maple leaves fffor THREE YEARS of the bands history!! the band kept kicking fffor FFFIVE WHOLE YEARS after he left. FFFIVe.

and i shall explain why specifically franzies saying this PISSES. ME. OFF with a pretty bold statement

maple leaves are the reason franz moved towards that quite different sound fffor aa.

"how so????? HOW SO??????????????????????????????????" you may ask me. and i shall explain!

go back to 2012, when julian released light of the north, it has a more distinctly pop sound than all of his other prior releases. this will be the case fffor all of his other releases afterwards. this is BECAUSE of maple leaves.

to quote julian directly (stutters and all), "I was playing in a band called Maple Leaves fffor a while, and I started that band shortly after I came back to Glasgow, and the whole idea of that was to write pop songs that were sort of- yeah, it was to basically like- I has this like...naive dream that I could try and like write the greatest pop songs ever, y'know? and sort of, like, I really believed in pop, and I still do I think, as, like, a medium of...the- the way that.... you know, writing a good song, y'know, is a really, sort of, great thing to do. But then I left to fffocus on this and I think, maybe, some of the pop..sort of...thing kind of rubbed off on it, you know? Like...um...I was like "Oh no! I need to write some pop songs, what should I do?""

and as we allllllllll know, the sound of always ascending came pretty much directly fffrom julian's later releases as miaoux miaoux. always ascending haters, you have the maples to blame fffor that! you're welcome.

i COULD go on a schpiel on how it minimizes the other maples impact on the band (specifically the two who joined after the #originalthree (EVEN THOUGH graeme technically isnt even an original member!!) but then this post would be WAYYYYYYY too long