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Genre: pop punk |
“Bedroom Talk,” “The B-List,” “Photography,” and “Stay Where I Can See You.”
As the sophomore album on The Starting Line, Based on a True Story was a marked maturation from 2002′s Say It Like You Mean It. The Starting Line hadn’t lost their penchant for upbeat pop, but the lyrics and general ambience of this album are darker than before. As the title attests, much of the lyrical matter seems to come from the personal lives of the members, making this album both an intrusion and a time capsule of where they were when it was recorded. When that knowledge is put in context with the band’s contentious history with Geffen Records at the time, it becomes even more revealing. I still find myself inexplicably drawn to this album even so many years after its release, because of how surprising a change it was from The Starting Line of old.
Tags: based on a true story, chase the white whale, direction, driver f, the starting line
