Watched a couple of songs from Life on the Road as they pop up on Twitter. One way in which Life on the Road didn’t really cut it in comparison to the series is the lack of subtlety in the songs. In the Office, the songs - whilst still really shit - would have taken a bit of thought to write. The lyrics were still subtle and were laced with relatively thought-out metaphors and personification etc, whereas the songs in LOTR could have been written by a 5 year old. They were just Brent’s basic beliefs written in their most simplistic form. I reckon, for example, if the disability song had been in the series, at least he would have used a metaphor for a disabled person, rather than physically describing people with disabilities. In the training day, he uses “you’re now colour blind” (even though he cant help himself but to partially explain it by just saying “racial”) is much better than the literal wording in the song about equality. Maybe I’m just being picky, but it seems like that subtlety was really missing from LOTR.