The Juliana Theory “Can’t Go Home” (Official Music Video)

49 thoughts on “The Juliana Theory “Can’t Go Home” (Official Music Video)”

1. I’m dying! This song is perfect for 2020 in every way! Can’t wait for more!!!!!

   While this is pretty different from past work, I think it’s very “now” in the best way possible. Love!

2. love it! love tjt putting out more music

3. i'll never forget the longest note ever sung @ shelter in detroit circa 2008 or some shit. good times. maybe earlier. i dont remember. but it was JT

4. Love the new Coldplay album

5. There are ways to ‘go pop’ & retain the DNA of your band

   Queen did it with ‘Hot Space’; U2 did it with ‘Achtung Baby’; The Stones with ‘Some Girls’ … etc etc

   And then there is just using the namesake that sells concert tickets in order to shift the units of your current forays in to mainstream blandness.

   TJT always flirted with straight up pop song craft, it was part of their genius. They would hide expertly crafted Pop tunes in a Trojan Horse of Post-Hardcore & Emo.

   But it was a thinking-person’s take on pop music. It was the kind of Pop that the radio should have been playing, but wasn’t. Their was an artful ‘knowing’ to it all.

   This current TJT iteration is just cribbing Imagine Dragons & perhaps the band FUN. So pop flavors that are not only 10 years stale, but also song-craft that seems sorta bloodless and lazy.

   This is not a ‘I DEMAND TJT can’t change!’ complaint.

   It’s a forewarning to TJT fans, both old and new, of false advertising.

6. I really like this. Everything The Juliana Theory has done has been amazing.

7. It's been a long time since the Zao days, friend…

8. Just saw them in concert and it was amazing! You guys absolutely killed it!

9. Love the new sounds and the older ones! Also, you guys walk so well. 😆 Keep walking.

10. As of August 2021, how does this video only have 19k views?

11. Anyone who cares will go home. If your using covid as an excuse to isolate did you really love to begin with??

12. This song sucks!!!!!!

13. Knew it was too good to be true. Didn't think it would be the same sound 🙁 …This isn't Juliana Theory and straight up sucks.

14. Will always love TJT!

15. It sounds like TJT has been hangin' with Fall Out Boy a little too much.

16. I gave a thumbs up for walking that far in cowboy boots.

17. Did the WEF pen these lyrics down? bc it sounds like part of their agenda21 soundtrack.

18. The reason I don't like this is they didn't even try to implicate even traces of they're old sound or even what made them special. They literally just made a Walk the Moon meets Bleachers song. That's it. Like I can't even figure out why you would call this TJT. It's like a band like Smallpools at least consciously knew what they were making clearly is not Making April.

19. Love it!!!! So glad to see TJT back! It may not be the sound we remember, but put on your big kid pants, TJT is making music once again!

20. Wow, I can't believe all the negative comments…For what it's worth, y'all are brave as hell for putting out any new work at all, let alone after a long hiatus. I like the sound and I can't wait to hear what else you've got in store for us.

21. It’s growing on me..

22. The old music was super poppy. I love it

23. Yea this isn't the band I listened to non-stop in 2002 but this is pretty fun

24. There is no TJT song that is so dear to me that I wouldn't give it up to see the new TJT live. And I feel like the first two TJT albums are primal influences to my songwriting.

25. Those white boots…. long gone are the guitar days of Zao.

26. I can kind of hear Brett's voice and modulations somewhere but man… This shift is too pronounced. I mean, they have been inactive for a long time so it is a surprise unlike, let's say, Paramore which released quite a few records hinting at pop being explored and once their 80s influenced record hit you were like: "yeah… Kind of makes sense…" .
    But oh well, this sound might hit radio waves and in the end that's what bands/record companies strive for.
    Will wait for their other songs to see what's what.
    Happy New year everyone!

27. I didn't know what to think at first; it's an enjoyable song and all, but it's not the TJT that I remember, but.
    The more I listen to it, the more I dissect it, I'm finding so much that /is/ TJT in it, especially the singing and the layering; Brett still carries that classical TJT style and nuance in his singing; it's almost like they're going back to the pop flavors of Emotion is Dead and re-exploring that branch of their music and building off of it. I'm intrigued to hear more; these guys have been my favorite artists for twenty years now, since I was a troubled kid and I've enjoyed all of the directions they've taken while still retaining that old feeling that they have-

    -I hope that they don't distance themselves too much from that flavor and the reasons why people keep coming back to them. I'm sure that this new tune will draw in a lot of new listeners and fans, which are greatly deserved, but I hope it doesn't come at the cost of the soul of the band and.

    I like the song and I look forward to the new album, I just also hope that they keep constant to their standard of quality and expression in the new era.

28. Killer jam! Can't wait to play with you dudes in 2021 hopefully

29. Also, they are actually playing their instruments it's just less is more held as close to the oddest placements in the beat possible. The chorus at the end is this massive build up and then it cuts. Just also it's so feel good!

30. Are they walking to Twenty One Pilots? Are they not wearing an era color code?

31. I mean at least we have those first two records. Maybe this new music will mean something to todays youth like those records did to us?

32. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Imagine Dragons.

33. I prefer the guitar rock sound of The Juliana Theory…… but this is still a well written and produced song.

34. Perfect Strangers called. They want Balki back.

35. Is this even Brett Detar?

36. Ummmmm

37. Appreciate the effort but not for me, thanks.

38. I love that it says we can't go home at the same time we keep being told we can't go anywhere else

39. The comments here are strange. Did anyone expect the same thing after they took a fifteen-year hiatus and came back as a duo?

    You don't have to like it. I've been a TJT fan since I was nine years old, and they inspired to me to write music. Now it's time for them to do it again, in a different genre for a different time. And I support that.

    Do I like the new song? No. But I'm thankful for the years of albums they gave me that I did.

40. I feel it

41. Corona virus Fakeee

42. Oldgggg

43. If I told you this was killing me, would you stop?

44. My wife introduced me to this band when we was first dating in 09. I was blown away. I am blown away again.

45. Cuando la buena musica involuciona!!!! es como escuchar Imagine Dragons, capital cities Donde quedaron las guitarras crujientes? en fin, dislike

46. We can all grumble that this sounds nothing like the old Juliana Theory, but it’s a decent song that holds up with what’s on alternative radio. I won’t begrudge them a chameleon comeback.

47. So, I’m all for bands evolving, and I don’t need my favorite bands to keep churning out their old sound, buuuut….

    cringes I don’t love when bands I used to love release new music and sound like that Imagine Dragons garbage. Ugh.

48. Wow, not at all what I was expecting. Too radio pop…or perhaps something you'd hear in a Go Pro commercial. Not for me, but I wish them the best with this new sound.

49. Different from the old TJT stuff but I like it a lot! Looking forward to listen to the full album soon.
    Brett makes great music all the time, also the solo albums were so fantastic and all of your music belongs to my life.
    I visited several great live shows here in Europe, must be more than 15 years ago …
    Thank you for your music!

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