Monsters
All Time Low
"Monsters" arrived during All Time Low's most pop-adjacent era, featuring blackbear on a track that leans fully into modern production — trap-influenced hi-hats, electronic textures layered over rock instrumentation, a sonic palette that marks a deliberate step away from their guitar-driven past. The song examines a mutually destructive relationship with unusual clarity, both parties acknowledging their capacity to harm each other while remaining magnetized. Gaskarth and blackbear trade verses with complementary energy, the former's melodic pop-punk instincts meeting the latter's darker, more confessional hip-hop-adjacent delivery. The chorus is enormous by design, engineered to land in headphones and arena rafters with equal force. Lyrically, "we're all monsters" functions as both excuse and honest reckoning — nobody's hands are clean, everyone's damage is showing. The production keeps it from becoming heavy despite its subject matter; there's almost something celebratory in its hooks, the way bad relationships sometimes feel exciting even while they're consuming you. It's a song for driving too fast, for the complicated thrill of something you know you shouldn't want.
medium
2020s
polished, electronic-tinged, arena-scale
American
Pop-Rock, Pop. hybrid pop-rock with trap production. conflicted, intense. Examines mutual destruction with almost celebratory energy — the honest reckoning and the thrill coexist without one canceling the other. energy 8. medium. danceability 7. valence 5. vocals: melodic, dual vocalists, pop-forward, confessional, smooth. production: trap-influenced hi-hats, electronic textures over rock instrumentation, enormous chorus engineering. texture: polished, electronic-tinged, arena-scale. acousticness 1. era: 2020s. American. Driving too fast with complicated feelings about something you know you shouldn't want but can't stop wanting.