Opinions for Take the Pill

yamightwannasing · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:09 pm

After almost of having the songs, I can say that this is my favorite song to listen to

paratokhem. · **Joined:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:00 am **Posts:** 234

This is my 2nd favorite (besides Time For Tea) I always love her harder more dramatic songs more. I love the part where it's like "He is a doctor and you're just a fucking psycho bitch!"

Wind's Conductor · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:08 pm

^ That's the bit I can't stand. It's all very great until she goes all MTV hardcore. She could have found a much nicer, more powerful way of stating the whole thing about “Who'd you believe?”

wirehead · **Joined:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:57 pm **Posts:** 24

Wind's Conductor wrote:

^ I love this post.

Also, I looked up CBT on Google to get more info and I got this:

XDDDDD

Didn't do that on purpose, I promise. :lol:

And thanks.

TheMoose · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:41 pm

When she gets to the "get back in line" part, I imagine a belly dancing sequence. I don't know why.

teensytiny · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:44 pm

I. FUCKING. LOVE. IT.

fallen · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:52 pm

When I first heard the studio version of this song, I was a bit sad. Her voice just seemed so drab and lifeless and it seemed like she was just... not putting her heart into it, I guess... After thinking about it for a while (and listening to it repeatedly), I absolutely love it. At least it makes sense to me, having my own personal experiences with psychiatric drugs. I still felt sad with antidepressants, yet at the same time I was completely unable to express this. At all. I wanted to cry, yet couldn't. I wanted to scream, and couldn't. I felt so sincere about so many things and feelings and yet... nothing. Lifeless. It makes perfect sense to me that she seems to be lacking any emotion in her voice, to me at least. Perhaps it would make less sense, and make me feel that the song is lacklustre had I not experienced similar things previously.

Suffering Madness · **Posted:** Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:26 pm

fallen wrote:

When I first heard the studio version of this song, I was a bit sad. Her voice just seemed so drab and lifeless and it seemed like she was just... not putting her heart into it, I guess... After thinking about it for a while (and listening to it repeatedly), I absolutely love it.

I feel the same way! At the beginning I was a little bit sad and just listened to the live version ... but now I absolutely adore the studio version. It's like ... EA is all dumb from the pills and so the songs gets even a little scary (I always imagine (and I know) what pills can do with you, your mind, your body...)
P.S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSSoJmPfbM&feature=plcp

Wind's Conductor · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:28 pm

I honestly think EA doesn't sing dumbed at all, it's just that the way you sing to channel emotion live and on record are just not the same...

LadyCyanide · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:31 pm

^ I take it a bit as though she's singing like she's got a cocktail of drugs in her. Though, this is more evident in the live performance, especially when she's singing "You'll be just...fine".

INMATE W17S · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:50 pm

I love the way she says "You are not yet considered sane". She says this with a very contemptuous tone, it really puts you in the mood she wants to convey with this song. I love the crazy sounds in the end, the whole song is an amazing piece, it's crazy and she does all the voices in a way to get the effect of craziness and people telling you what to do so much that the only thing you have is just this voices in your head on repeat and there's nothing you can do about it.

Nocturnal Mermaid · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:30 am **Posts:** 1506

When I first heard it, I was a bit disappointed but then the more I heard it, I realized that the tone couldn't been any more appropriate. And then I realized that in her live videos, she just sits there, lifeless.

sierrakeiko · **Posted:** Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:26 pm

This song is one of my favorites, because being someone who has had to take multiple antidepressants (still do), it really hits home. The side effects, the way people think it's a "cure" for everything, or having people ask me if I've "taken my pill" because I'm feeling sad (god forbid I feel emotion). It also gives me images of "Girl, Interrupted", when they have Susanna take pills she doesn't necessarily need or want.

Jester · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:16 am

My favourite track on the album. This one sounds rather creepy when played on high quality speakers because, well, it's quite painful. Innit? It made my breathing shallow and my eyes water (in a good way, of course)

glowchaser · **Joined:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:15 pm **Posts:** 1224

This one still remains my favourite. It's like Fight Like A Girl's "Liar".
Strong and powerful song with a intimately touching message.

And EA was interviewed by Lords of Metal a while ago, in where she spoke about her time in the psych ward and her medication. She said:

EA wrote:

You don’t really know about what you’re getting, it’s all about sedating you and experimenting with drugs. All of these things have lasting effects. My brain doesn’t even work the same as before, because I was given drugs that they didn’t know the effect of. I don’t process memories in the same way, and later I found out it was the amnesia drug. I don’t know the proper name for it, but they were trying to erase the memories of bad things that happened to me while being locked up against my will. They were trying to erase everything so that I wouldn’t go out and talk about things that happened there. The sad part is, it didn’t erase anything. It changed how I process memories from then on.

Also she's added to that in some other interview (I can't remember to god in which one, I've been reading so many EA interviews lately that I get all confused..) that she actually experienced such acts as nurses watching her to swallow some experimental, non-tested drugs which could cause some serious side-effects.
Those which of course the medication companies deny ever existing and blaming everyone liar and mad who dares to claim that there's these horrifing side-effects.

After reading up to some other people's stories about forced medication and such, I can really feel this anger and I feel like I get this song so much better.
And it makes it so much more meaningful, which itself brings more value to the song, for me, at least.

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