Music / Memories...Do Not Open

If we go down, we go down together, we'll get away with everything, let's show them we are better

How much you wanna risk?
I'm not lookin' for somebody
With some superhuman gifts
Some superhero
Some fairy-tale bliss
Just something I can turn to
Somebody I can miss
I want something just like this

— "Something Just Like This"

Memories... Do Not Open is the debut album by The Chainsmokers. It was released on April 7, 2017.

Despite receiving poor reviews by critics, the album's songs proved to be successful with topping the Billboard, with "Paris" and "Something Just Like This" becoming very popular.

Three singles were released with this album: "Paris", "Something Just Like This" and "Honest".

Track listing:

1. The One (2:57)
2. Break Up Every Night (3:27)
3. Bloodstream (3:44)
4. Don't Say (with Emily Warren) (3:48)
5. Something Just Like This (with Coldplay) (4:07)
6. My Type (with Emily Warren) (3:37)
7. It Won't Kill Ya (with Louane) (3:37)
8. Paris (3:41)
9. Honest (3:28)
10. Wake Up Alone (with Jhené Aiko) (3:35)
11. Young (3:44)
12. Last Day Alive (with Florida Georgia Line) (3:34)

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Tropes... Do Not Read:

• Actor Allusion: "Paris" mentions "posting pictures of yourself on the internet.", a reference to #SELFIE, which was the first hit The Chainsmokers made.
• Genre Roulette: Memories...Do Not Open is full of this, from the pop-rock "The One" to the EDM "Paris" to the ambient "Last Day Alive" to the pop-punk "Break Up Every Night".
• Gratuitous French: Appears on "It Won't Kill Ya". Understandable, as the vocalist, Louane, is French.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Parts of the lyrics of "Something Just Like This" seem to hint the singer feels this way while the girl he loves tries to talk him out of it.
  [...] Achilles and his gold, Hercules and his gifts
  Spiderman's control, and Batman with his fists
  And clearly I don't see myself upon that list
  But she said, "Where'd you wanna go? How much you'd wanna risk?
  I'm not looking for somebody with some superhuman gifts [...]"
• Precision F-Strike: "I know it's pathetic, fuck it, yeah, I said it" from "The One".
• Step Up to the Microphone: Following the previous year's "Closer", this album marks Drew Taggart's transition into being the lead singer of The Chainsmokers, with him singing lead on half the songs here (tracks 1-3, 8-9, 11).

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Down and down we go
And we'll torch this place we know
Before one of us takes a chance
And breaks this, I won't be the one
No, I won't be the one