Sweet Mullet Are Razor-Sharp

So, yet again starting out a Sweet Mullet review by saying I’m not a Sweet Mullet fan (or at least haven’t been), and when their second new single, “คมมีด / Kom Meet (Razor-Sharp)” came out, I wasn’t in the greatest rush to listen to it. And I managed to avoid it until one day I was looking for something to post about, so I gave it a listen…and I swear they were screaming in the chorus, and I couldn’t get halfway through. So I put them out of my mind.

Then, today comes, and again I’m looking for something to post, and I see their music video for “Kom Meet” came out. So I figured I’d give it another chance. And I’ll admit, the song isn’t as bad as I first thought. In fact…there’s no screaming. So now I’m wondering what the heck I was listening to the first time? Singer Tao has a decent voice, but there’s something about this song that just sounds too similar to their first single, “Sapaawah Huajai Lom Liew Chiapplan.” I like the style, but at some parts I felt like I could start singing the other song, which isn’t good if you want your songs to stand out and not just all blend together. And don’t get me started on the lyrics…I have nothing to say about emo lyrics like this haha. There are some lines I liked, like the “รอยยิ้มเธอ ที่ซ่อนอะไรไว้อยู่ข้างหลัง (มีดคอยทิ่มแทง) / roi yim ter tee son a-rai wai yoo kaang lang (meet koi tim taeng) [Your smile has something hidden behind it (A knife waiting to stab)],” but otherwise I just can’t get into these “You keep hurting me, I give up, I’ll let you destroy me” songs.

Then the music video…pretty standard Grammy music video, with the focus on the band playing. What’s up with their hair, though? You can see them all more clearly in the top picture up there. They seem to need a new makeup artist as well. Tao reminds me a lot of Nap Retrospect (and not in a good way). The girl they chose is hecka creepy, but I guess she fits the part, and I like the the whole idea and way they went about with the stabbing scene. I just wish they would have stopped there, as having the last half of the video nothing but them getting drenched in raining blood was a little much…

พอแล้วเจ็บกี่ครั้งเธอกลับมา
por laew jep gee krang ter glap maa
I’ve had enough, how many times I’ve hurt from you coming back
เมื่อเธอมีปัญหากับเขาอีกใช่ไหม
meua ter mee bpan-haa gap kao eek chai mai
When you have another problem with him, right?
ทั้งที่เธอก็รู้ว่าฉันนั้นคนมีใจ
tang tee ter gor roo waa chan-nan kon mee jai
Though you know that I care about you
แต่ที่ทำเหมือนเห็นฉันเป็นของตาย
dtae tee tam meuan hen chan bpen kong dtaai
But you act like you see me as a dead thing

ก่อนเคยกระหน่ำแทงกลางหัวใจ
gon koie gra-nam taeng glaang hua jai
Before you once stabbed me in the center of my heart
มันยังเป็นบาดแผลไม่หายจนวันนี้
man yang bpen baat plae mai haai jon wan nee
The wound still hasn’t healed today
แล้วอะไรที่ทำให้เธอต้องมาคืนดี
laew a-rai tee tam hai ter dtong maa keun dee
Then what made you come back?
ไม่เข้าใจอะไรที่เธอต้องการ
mai kao jai a-rai tee ter dtong gaan
I don’t understand what you want

* รอยยิ้มเธอ ที่ซ่อนอะไรไว้อยู่ข้างหลัง (มีดคอยทิ่มแทง)
roi yim ter tee son a-rai wai yoo kaang lang (meet koi tim taeng)
Your smile has something hidden behind it (A knife waiting to stab)
รอยยิ้มเธอ ที่ทำให้ใครต้องปวดร้าว…
roi yim ter tee tam hai krai dtong bpuat raao…
Your smile causes someone to hurt…

** มีดของเธอนั้นหักคา หัวใจฉัน
meet kong ter nan hak kaa hua jai chan
Your knife is broken off in my heart
มันยังบาดลึกลงไป อยู่ทุกวัน
man yang baat leuk long bpai yoo took wan
It’s still deeply wounded every day
มันช่างทรมาน หากว่าเธอต้องการ
man chaang tor-ra-maan haak waa ter dtong gaan
It’s such torture, if you want to
จะทิ่มแทงให้นาน แค่ไหน
ja tim taeng hai naan kae nai
You’ll stab me for how long?
เลือดที่บาดแผลห้ามไป ยังรินไหล
leuat tee baat plae haam bpai yang rin-lai
The blood from the forbidden injury still flows
เธอเข้ามาซ้ำให้เจ็บ แทบขาดใจ
ter kao maa sam hai jep taep kaat jai
You repeatedly come back to hurt me, I’m almost dead
จะต้องทำยังไง จะต้องควักหัวใจ
ja dtong tam yang ngai ja dtong kwak hua jai
What must I do? Do I have to gouge out my heart?
หรือให้ฉันตายอยู่ตรงนี้…oh no..
reu hai chan dtaai yoo dtrong nee…oh no..
Or just let myself die right here…oh no…

คนล้มกลับเหยียบซ้ำย่ำเอาไว้
kon lom glap yiap sam yam ao wai
My tormentor comes back to keep trampling
ไม่ให้ใครได้ฟื้นยืนลุกขึ้นอีกครั้ง
mai hai krai daai feun yeun look keun eek krang
Not allowing anyone to stand up again
ฉันก็ยอมให้เธอทำร้ายหัวใจจนพัง
chan gor yom hai ter tam raai hua jai jon pang
I’ll let you hurt me until my heart collapses
แต่ตอนนี้พอทีอย่าเริ่มได้ไหม
dtae dton nee por tee yaa rerm daai mai
But now, it’s enough, don’t start, please?

(*, **)

But I am impressed with Sweet Mullet, showing their versatility and toning down the screaming and hard rock. They do have a third single that just recently came out, but I haven’t listened to it yet. I hope it sounds substantially different than the first two, though. I am really liking this style, but if the whole new album is going to sound the same like this, they’re risking running themselves into another rut with me.

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