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On “Ode to the Mets,” the final song on "The New Abnormal", Julian looks back at the band’s career and history in New York City, where they grew up together.
Bleak, quiet guitars and synthesizers back the track’s verses, while full, strong instrumentation comes in for the track’s outro, leaving the listener with an epic outro on The New Abnormal.
Additionally, the song begins with the same chords during the chorus (this time on the synthesizer) as previously heard on the album’s opening track, “Adults Are Talking”. Thus serving as the beginning and end of the “journey”.
In Episode 2 of the band’s podcast/video chat, “5guys talking about things they know nothing about,” the band discusses this track. The New York Mets are a Major League Baseball National League team based In Queens, New York and have not won a World Series since 1986. Julian calls the Mets the team of his youth. Julian wrote the song while waiting on a subway platform, after the Mets had lost a painful National League Wild Card game in 2016 against the San Francisco Giants. Julian wanted to remove the Mets from the song title, naming it “Ode,” only to be talked out of it by Fabrizio Moretti and the band who love the song title. The band views the name as symbolic, with the Mets representing something that you set your heart to that continues to disappoint you.
The track was debuted at their New Years' Eve 2019 Show at the Barclays Center in New York, NY, connecting the song even further to New York.
In August 2010, Julian told press that he wanted to write a new theme song for the New York Mets:
"I’m totally serious I have some ideas, I have to see if they like it. I’ve got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.
While not keeping a tone typical to sports theme songs, “Ode to the Mets” may be Julian finally fulfilling his dream to create a song in honor of his favorite baseball team."
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