There are moments on Is This The Life We Really Want? that showed promise. How many things do you want us to smell before you get to what you want to say? ' Smell The Roses' has the same problem that 'Picture That' did - repeating things over and over again only works so well for so long. Hell, the title track ' Is This The Life What We Really Want?' rolls by for six minutes and the best he can do is call Trump a " nincompoop." Six minutes of music for that. It's becoming had to expect a strong statement from anyone regarding their feelings, though. We get that Roger Waters doesn't like Trump. The fact that the first verse ends on the bewildering lines " Picture a leader with no fucking brains / No fucking brains, no fucking brains" AND that this is coming from a 70-year-old veteran of politically charged songs, it's all just a bit pathetic. Take a listen to ' Picture That' for a prime example: saying "picture this" with unfavorable situations for almost seven minutes really just doesn't have a profound affect. Waters really lets his position be known on this record, though, and sometimes it just sounds like he's rambling on aimlessly, grabbing on to meaning wherever he thinks he can find it. Lots of people are angry about the state of the world right now, and they have every right to be - by no means do we live in a world anywhere close to perfect. That's exactly the case with former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, who sounds horribly out of touch on Is This The Life We Really Want?, his first album in over two decades. That doesn't stop some from sounding downright crazy. It's a powerful medium for all emotion and dreams.
Art is one of the strongest ways to transmit a message.
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