一反以往陽光活力的形象，Dubstep電音打造出黑暗冰冷的感覺，呼應歌名。
爽快硬朗得型格十足，是一個截然不同的Supper Moment。
Bass line真的像會發光的一樣，搶耳非常，讓我禁不住一聽再聽。
主題方面，「機械人」顯然即是那些任由社會灌輸一切觀念思想，規範所有行徑，
甚至連生命和未來也被「好好規劃」，不加思索，倒模地渾噩生存著的人；
故主歌段落大多以機械人的視角出發，闡述各種過度簡化的觀念，
諷刺社會制度希望人們拋棄一己思想和主見，
只不求甚解地遵循他們設置好的路線過活的hidden agenda，
良知不需要善良「只要你乖乖遵從社會期望，就已經可被視作社會棟樑」的潛台詞昭然若揭。
思想抑壓叫嚷 思考只要正常
一邊安坐等頒獎 你也成了棟樑
被分配一套取向 乖巧的一套模樣
副歌則反過來表達樂隊對搖滾的理解（即打破社會框架，並被視作反叛），
以此鼓勵樂迷不要盲目遵從社會規範，
而應敢於開創一片新天空，活出自己的生命。
坊間不少人都指歌曲令人想起近期大熱的《進擊的巨人》，
誠然，歌曲本身爽快明朗的節奏實十分適合作日本動畫的主題曲，
加上他們也的確是《進》粉絲，難怪大家會紛紛把兩者聯想在一起。
其實歌曲demo早在《進》廣受歡迎前已經存在，
當然他們撰寫歌詞時有否被《進》影響，我們無從考究；
我亦沒有觀看《進》，難以評論兩者是否如網上意見所指一般貼切。
剛聽到這歌時，我想起的卻是另一齣影片 — Fight Club／ 搏擊會（David Finch，1999）。
或許是巧合，我正是在濕扒Band房裏第一次看這齣讓我震撼不已的電影的！
大佬還要一邊播著DVD，一邊向我大力推薦！
戲中大力批判了中產消費主義，社會和廣告把人們生命的價值和他們擁有的商品掛鉤，
擁有越多，生活卻越虛無空洞，戲中Narrator正是如此痛苦地生存著，
直至遇上Tyler Durden，他才透過暴力獲得釋放。
Tyler Durden 有數句對白讓我十分深刻，
也恰巧可以呼應《機械人》歌中所指，為歌曲加上精警的註腳：
"God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes,
Working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place.
We have no Great War, no Great Depression.
Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives.
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires,
and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't.
And we're slowly learning that fact, and we're very, very pissed off."
"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank.
You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet.
You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
"We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me.
What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels,
some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra."
"Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you.
Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life.
Don't you have other things to do?
Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments?
Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it?
Do you read everything you're supposed to read?
Do you think every thing you're supposed to think?
Buy what you're told to want?
Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex.
Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation.
Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive.
If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic.
You have been warned."
對濕扒這次曲風上的突破，網上意見大多正面，
但也有更多人把他們跟阿全另一分身樂隊鐵樹蘭比較，指歌曲有鐵樹蘭的味道。
兩隊風格迥異，卻由同一人主唱，固然引人好奇；
而這次濕扒不講溫情，展現硬朗一面，難怪有人想起鐵樹蘭裏那個霸氣十足的阿全。
可是，單論音樂，歌曲依然與Nu-metal沾不上邊，
假若這歌換了主唱，還會不會有人說像鐵樹蘭呢？
是不是只要濕扒不走活力溫情路線，就會像鐵樹蘭呢？
作為兩隊的樂迷，我只覺得不應該把阿全的創作二元化，非濕扒即鐵樹蘭，
不應該只用一句像誰誰誰，就一概而論地抺殺了他們的努力創作和突破。
一如歌中所指，真正喜歡一隊樂隊，
看著他們把自己的音樂光譜越擴越闊，而且保持水準一流，
不是應該覺得高興，並好好欣賞他們那種不斷追求突破的精神嗎？
或者，只要還有人懂得欣賞就足夠了，不應該太介懷。
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