And when you drill down into the words both Oli and YUNGBLUD are saying, allusions of George Orwell's 1984 doublethink ideology rear their heads, with a population listening to and believing their government even though they know it’s wrong, as Oli ironically croons ‘Don’t let your conscience get in the way’.
“We are being told to conform to a completely outdated idea that we don’t relate to or even understand,” says YUNGBLUD. “They teach us to turn against each other and to fight against our differences rather than embrace and celebrate them. They try to keep us divided because it makes us weaker.
“Robots follow robots, because they feel nothing at all. But what they don’t realise is that to us, to be different is to be free and a world of fucking love and equality is a world we want to be part of. We will rise above the hate and the diversion. We will fight for the world we want to be a part of. We will not obey.”
And while “they” are never named directly in the song, the assertion that those in power lack empathy is palpable in the lyrics ‘we’re only gambling with your soul’ and the band’s savage riposte ‘You call yourself peaceful, YOU MONSTERS ARE PEOPLE!’ before nosediving into a pummelling breakdown guaranteed to set crowds alight in the future.
