Music Review // Andrew Browning "Preachers Of Doom"

 

Andrew Browning has really found a way to tap into the parts of society others don't seem to want to talk about.  There is this universal message within "Preachers Of Doom" that just doesn't get discussed enough in music or otherwise.   If you ever read the newspaper, watch the news on tv or just scroll through social media, those "Prachers Of Doom" are all of the ways that we are not just brought news but we are often brought bad news.  Every day it feels like something is happening that means the end of the world and so everyone goes out and buys toilet paper in bulk.  

Lyrics such as "While the preachers of doom preach I'm living on borrowed time" hit home because they show how this song is about the fact that, yeah, maybe the world is going to end (or so says the news at least) but as someone who should've been dead at least three times by now that's all right.   Throughout the verses there are just these ways that Andrew Browning sings about living his life to its fullest, so that if the end does come it's all right because every day for a while has just been a blessing.

There is also this part of the lyrics which more people need to take as a mantra which says: "Do good to the good kind / Don't mess with the bad kind".  Every day there is always someone on social media complaining about some fandom and it becomes too much.   What this part of the song means to me is something I've believed since I started writing about music and it's why give negative attention to something when you could use that energy for something positive.  Rather than spending five hours a day tearing down songs you don't like, imagine if you used those five hours to promote songs you do like.

I don't want to wax too philosophical on this song here, but I feel like it is also important to note that I saw this image floating around social media today about Trevor Moore and let's just leave that at an "if you know you know" type of way.   But the whole idea of this world trying to bring us down, the preachers of doom, we just have to do our best to rise above it and live in a more positive way and just make the most of our time while we have it because we never truly know when it's all going to end.