Def Leppard should have gone in the direction of their NWOBHM counterparts, Iron Maiden. And that's the nicest way to put them! They pretty much make any song off of "Hysteria" sound like any song off of Iron Maiden's "Piece of Mind". Oh man, I can't stand the lyrics to all of these songs, they're just completely pretentious and silly. Def Leppard, however, is still going on to be remembered by many people, and thus were are subject to more and more of this nonsense. Even the Backstreet Boys would be appalled by this garbage, cos at least they were mostly forgotten about after the '90s. Both of those don't even sound like metal, or even rock n' roll, they sound more like Def Leppard was trying to imitate the Backstreet Boys with guitars and unreal-sounding choruses. You know what we get here? We get some washed-up "rock star"-type guys creating some mind-numbing tragedies such as "Promises" and "Guilty". I mean, come on are you only good at writing love songs? They've written songs that have subjects other than love, I mean, they've done it when recording "On through the Night". Here's a fact, Def Leppard, just cos you polish an album so much that its reflection blinds peoples eyes doesn't mean that everybody's going to like it. Look, I know I'm sounding a little harsh when I look at this album, it's just that when you compare it to Def Leppard's first efforts, it's just so overpolished and slick that you'd slip and fall if you stepped in it. But they didn't, and the result is the not-so euphoric "Euphoria". Okay, I'm supposed to feel happy, right? Is that the whole point of putting out this album, to make us feel good with this music? Look, how am I supposed to feel good, or even the slightest feeling of pleasantness, when the music in question isn't worth listening to? Why should we feel happy when the music was meant to get stuck in our heads ala "Message in a Bottle" by The Police, and makes us feel enraged? Here's the deal, metal is usually not supposed to be a very euphoric genre of music, so why the pretty title? They've shoveled out some abysmal efforts in the '80s and '90s, and now they're trying to make us feel better? The only way for them to do that is to look back at their roots and remember who they truly were. This is the name of an album released in the late '90s by the NWOBHM band that never was, Def Leppard. "Euphoria", the word evokes a sense of happiness, of joy, and of ecstasy.
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