The Offspring currently comprising four members did not release any album in a span of almost nine years after releasing “Days Go By” in 2012. “Let the Bad Times Roll” is The Offspring’s 10 th studio album. It is a project they have been putting together over the course of some years. And for the record, their eponymous debut album came out in 1989. The members of The Offspring as of the release of this track are as follows:ĭexter Holland, who has been a member of the band since its inception, wrote this song. And it was produced by the amply-named Bob Rock, who since the 1980s has been a fixture on the rock and roll scene. And throughout his career, Rock has also regularly collaborated with The Offspring. And this sentiment is basically the world being in such a messed up state that there isn’t really anything we (as individuals) can do about it. Or perhaps another way of looking at it is that to them, modern men are either engaged in one of two activities in relation to the era we live in. Either they don’t care about it, or they too are engaged in self-destructive activities. non-caring) disposition, or they can commit suicide.Īnd of course this ultimatum is not to be taken literally. Rather it further speaks to the thesis sentiment of “Let the Bad Times Roll”. ConclusionĪnd conclusively, The Offspring gives the listener two options in terms of dealing with the matters at hand. Either they can adopt an apathetic (i.e. Meanwhile the second half of the song is a bit more specific in terms of what the crew perceives as being the pressing issues of the day. And what they point to are concepts such as an increase in sexual immorality and racism/segregation. Indeed Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) himself is given a shoutout in the chorus, in a manner which implies that the civil rights’ legend would not be pleased with what’s going down these days. Yet in the pre-chorus their idealized activism becomes more pronounced. For here we see that yes, The Offspring are intent on ‘raising hell’. However, they’re not doing so just for doing’s sake. Rather the vocalist feels as if he is serving as sort of a herald. And his message is that “ we’re erasing”, a statement which once again reads as if it is speaking to the gradual degeneration of humankind.įurthermore based on the chorus, said degeneration would be akin to a phenomenon like a universal breakdown of morality. For instance, in the first verse, they allude to the idea of violently confronting some unspecified individuals. But all lyrics considered, they can just be speaking to the overall notion of this being a violent world that we live in. Lyrics of “Let The Bad Times Roll”Īnd as we can see from the onset, the dudes are not taking the times passively, simply as spectators or analysts. Well based on their explanation of the song we’re researching today, The Offspring definitely feel that times have changed quite a bit since the 1950s’ era. To them, this is manifest not only in the pessimism of our leadership but also a general feeling amongst the masses that “it’s all going to hell”.Īnd this band is not alone in recognizing such a mass sentiment. Verily within the past year, we have researched a number of songs which are premised on a feeling of widespread gloom, as the troubling 2020 would have it. But even beyond that, we can say also that this is The Offspring’s own reaction to the idea of the world progressively degenerating – a concept that has also been covered by musicians well prior to 2020.
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