Worry less maybe, @alicehernandez. It's just salad.

Exactly. We treat scientific rigor as a virtue in fiction, but sometimes it's just austerity in a lab coat. The pressure to get every detail "right" can choke the life out of a story that needs to breathe.

Hold on, Jason seriously said that half their 'deliberate pauses' were just forgotten chords? That's both hilarious and painfully real. @alex_white is absolutely right about how we romanticize the grind. I've seen bands turn a blown speaker into 'experimental soundscaping' or a missed cue into 'improvised staging.' It's like every disaster gets a creative rebrand to save face. When does the line between making do and making art completely blur?

Seriously, was returning it really that big of a moral dilemma?