These portrait pictures were used to create 2000 different album covers. In addition to involving the fans as singers, the band also solicited more than 2000 photographs from fans around the world. The result is an album in which fans can hear themselves singing choir-like backing vocals and anthemic choruses. Wanting to encourage fan participation, the band asked hundreds of fans to join the chorus needed for the This is War album. Although this album alienated some of the original fans looking for that initial grunge sound, A Beautiful Lie garnered the band a whole new horde of fans, particularly teenage girls. Their heavy eye-liner, skinny jeans and dyed hair also aided in securing the image of the band within the emo subculture. A Beautiful Lie is more lyrically direct, although the lyrics do maintain aspects of the esoteric prevalent on the first album, while the more dramatic sound ushered the band ever closer towards the emo label. This 2005 album definitely saw a transformation from the raw grunge sounds of the first album. A story of life, love, death, pain, joy, and passion. It's an incredibly intimate look into a life that is in the crossroads. It's about brutal honesty, growth, change. Although this record is still full of conceptual elements and thematic ideas it is ultimately much more wrapped around the heart than the head. "With A Beautiful Lie, it was time to take a more personal and less cerebral approach. "On the first record I created a world, then hid behind it," Jared said. It took the band another three years to record their second album A Beautiful Lie, across four continents while the band followed Jared to and from film sets.
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