WAT IS DA MEANING OF DIS MUSIC? IS IT MUSE? IS IT SICK? IS IT A SICK MUSE? IDEK W/E
Amanda and I talk sometimes about what our favorite bands are. For the longest time, my favorite bands were Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco due to their being relics of a previously-lived musical life. Truth is, I considered those bands my favorites only because I was twelve and that was all I knew there was to music. Since then, my tastes have changed. I now find A Fever You Can't Sweat Out shallow and pretentious. Only thirteen-year-old kids like me, who thought that finding interest in some faux-cabaret peacock band made her "deep" (augghhhhh how gross), thought lyrics like,
"Just for the record / the weather today / is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of / A. indifference / B. disinterest in what the critics say"
WELL WE'RE JUST A WET DREAM FROM A WEBZINE
MAKE US IT MAKE US HIP MAKE US SCEEEENE
oh gosh.
THAT ASIDE, only thirteen-year-old kids can actually consider that good. I actually remember reading the bad reviews for this album going UGH DOSE CRITICS JUST DON'T GET IT THEY DON'T GET WHY PATD IS SO GOOD THEY ARE SO SMART AND DEEP AND DEY HAVE EMOTIONS DEY JUST JELLY etc etc. Now that I read those reviews I go, omg they are so right. I know that right now, I sound like a treacherous, unappreciative, condescending betch, but I'm not hating on anyone who still likes those songs on their older value. I understand that I can listen to I Write Sins Not Tragedies today in the same fake-adolescent fervor I felt at the exposition of my teenaged years. I can, but I don't want to. I remember when I used to know Brendon's middle name, or what his girlfriend's name was (it's Sarah right now actually), but those things lose their importance. Today, I don't even know how to spell the name of the lead singer from Vampire Weekend (Ezra Joenig? Keoning? Koenig? I think it's Koenig. Yeah it's totally Koenig).
But Fall Out Boy was kinda different. I remember listening to FOB in 2007 and just thinking about how I just, you know, liked the songs. But listening to FOB in 2010 was an entirely different experience. There I was at the height of my hormonal frustration. Sixteen and angry, some Grand Theft Autumn iPod-shuffled itself into my ears and omg. Those riffs, that energy, Patrick Stump before he learned that he could sing, it was riveting. I got that really good adrenaline-y feeling you get when you're in a car listening to a kick-arse song. All my angry, pubescent, pent-up energy latched itself onto the song like a tick and I felt like I, for the first time, like a teenager. I wished that Fall Out Boy was my favorite band even now that I am seventeen and slightly jaded about it. Alas my credibility cannot live on taste as "2005" as Fall Out Boy.
Maybe after all this time, Panic and FOB are still my favorite bands. The new Panic album is actually critically redeemable due to the album featuring actual artist growth. Fall Out Boy is on indefinite hiatus. Maybe when I'm 26, I might not like either band at all.
Well whatever happens, all of you will have to settle for what Amanda would claim are my favorite bands: One random band, Slipknot, and Earth, Wind and Fire.
And now for a song that I am legitimately addicted to, despite its incredible whiteness:
"Just for the record / the weather today / is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of / A. indifference / B. disinterest in what the critics say"
WELL WE'RE JUST A WET DREAM FROM A WEBZINE
MAKE US IT MAKE US HIP MAKE US SCEEEENE
oh gosh.
THAT ASIDE, only thirteen-year-old kids can actually consider that good. I actually remember reading the bad reviews for this album going UGH DOSE CRITICS JUST DON'T GET IT THEY DON'T GET WHY PATD IS SO GOOD THEY ARE SO SMART AND DEEP AND DEY HAVE EMOTIONS DEY JUST JELLY etc etc. Now that I read those reviews I go, omg they are so right. I know that right now, I sound like a treacherous, unappreciative, condescending betch, but I'm not hating on anyone who still likes those songs on their older value. I understand that I can listen to I Write Sins Not Tragedies today in the same fake-adolescent fervor I felt at the exposition of my teenaged years. I can, but I don't want to. I remember when I used to know Brendon's middle name, or what his girlfriend's name was (it's Sarah right now actually), but those things lose their importance. Today, I don't even know how to spell the name of the lead singer from Vampire Weekend (Ezra Joenig? Keoning? Koenig? I think it's Koenig. Yeah it's totally Koenig).
But Fall Out Boy was kinda different. I remember listening to FOB in 2007 and just thinking about how I just, you know, liked the songs. But listening to FOB in 2010 was an entirely different experience. There I was at the height of my hormonal frustration. Sixteen and angry, some Grand Theft Autumn iPod-shuffled itself into my ears and omg. Those riffs, that energy, Patrick Stump before he learned that he could sing, it was riveting. I got that really good adrenaline-y feeling you get when you're in a car listening to a kick-arse song. All my angry, pubescent, pent-up energy latched itself onto the song like a tick and I felt like I, for the first time, like a teenager. I wished that Fall Out Boy was my favorite band even now that I am seventeen and slightly jaded about it. Alas my credibility cannot live on taste as "2005" as Fall Out Boy.
Maybe after all this time, Panic and FOB are still my favorite bands. The new Panic album is actually critically redeemable due to the album featuring actual artist growth. Fall Out Boy is on indefinite hiatus. Maybe when I'm 26, I might not like either band at all.
Well whatever happens, all of you will have to settle for what Amanda would claim are my favorite bands: One random band, Slipknot, and Earth, Wind and Fire.
And now for a song that I am legitimately addicted to, despite its incredible whiteness:
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