I decided to waste a lot of time to actually see how often TAA uses an aquatic reference in their songs. I included everything that I felt represented water in some way, whether that was a verb (drowning, sinking, etc), bodies of water (river, lake, etc.) and also things connected with water (ship, sand, etc.). I counted up every reference across all albums, tallying each individual time it was sung in the song (ie "soak me, soak me, soak me in bleach" counts as 3). I used AZlyrics. Any song that was released post-album as a single was lumped into the album it released after (Midnight, Wade in the Water are on ELYOYLT). I also did not include any covers because they did not write those songs (Can't Feel My Face, Born To Die, Love Is A Battlefield), or any that were instrumentals. This list is definitely subjective and who knows, maybe I miscounted because I can't read my own handwriting. Here goes:
Album - Aquatic References - # songs - average # per song
ELYOYLT - 74 - 13 - 5.69
Misery - 61 - 12 - 5.08
TCBH - 56 - 11 - 5.09
LTOTM - 83 - 13 - 6.38
CG - 94 - 11 - 8.54
Youngbloods - 61 - 12 - 5.08
Severed Ties - 80 - 9 - 8.88
High Hopes - 4 -5 - 0.8
TAA - 10 - 6 - 1.66
As we can see, while Chasing Ghosts had the most water references at 94, Severed Ties had the highest water references per song at 8.88 despite having the third highest total. The only album with a water reference in the title had the second most water references.
Now we will look at the 45 words I accounted for:
Sink(ing) - 57, Drown(ing) - 56, Ocean(s) - 50, Water - 41, Soak - 32, Sea(s) - 28, Storm - 27, River(side) - 21, Sail - 20, Float(s)/Ship - 17, Treading - 15, Tide - 14, Rain(ing) - 12, Lake - 10, Swimming/Well - 9, Anchors - 8, Wash - 7, Ice/Frozen - 6, Seep/Boat/Shorelines - 5, Waves/Drift/Flow - 4, Surface/Depths/Ebb/Shallow(s) - 3, Pour/Overboard/Stern/Bow/Swamp/Sand/Wash/Banks - 2, Lighthouse/Diving/Snow/Boiling/Abyss/Sirens/Wake - 1.
So sinking, drowning, oceans, water, and soak are the top 5 words used. However, I looked at how many albums each word was referenced, because soak was used 32 times but only in one song.
Drowning and Water were both used on 7 different albums, Sinking and Oceans were used on 6 albums. Storm, Float, and Ship were used on 5 albums.
In conclusion, peak water Amity was in the 2012-2014 Chasing Ghosts/Let The Ocean Take Me era. They also love referencing going underwater with sinking/drowning and mentioning the ocean as their favorite
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