For those who labeled me a "true believer" when I declared my support for Won't Turn Back, is is a negative OLP post
Back when this demo was released I was largely unimpressed. I was really looking forward to the album that became known as HIPT with more anticipation than any album, by any band in my life. I was really expecting OLP to become the biggest band in the world for better or for worse given the international success of Gravity and I was expecting something either very artistic or some arena anthem the likes of which we've never seen before, and the vampires clip, much like the rest of HIPT, fell somewhere in the middle.
Now that we've heard the whole song, it is neither memorable, nor better or worse than Where Are You, and I feel the best thing this song had going for it, was the fact that it was unobtainable for so long. I feel Not Afraid was a better track, and had Vampires been released in a similar beer box promotion, it would have fallen flat and into the same realm of obscurity.
In conclusion, it's my opinion that Vampires is just an okay song that was not single worthy, and barley good enough to make what I consider to be the weakest album in OLPs catalog.
