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That's heartbreaking
pasta is life
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shovel the semi erect half cooked noodles embodying your despair into your mouth anyways you deserve it
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Erotic
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I'm turned on
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i feel like a lot of why i love this band so much is like almost everyone who really loves them is connected with them on some more significant level than just really liking their music. like they took a road trip halfway across the country to see them and met jeff or they were the first punk band they ever saw live or they helped pull them out of a really low shitty time in their life or their lyrics connected with them more than any other band had. its never just like "oh yeah dude i love scrambles" and i feel like thats really special
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Felt the same way about Streetlight for so long. All love at those shows. But I get what you mean Kman. It always makes a stronger connection to music when that's the case.
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streetlight are v much the same way with their really hardcore fans yeah
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There is something different about BTMI though. I'll say that. Jeff is just in general much more involved with his fan base.
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I've never done anything like driving a long way to get to a BTMI! show I just really really really fucking love their tunes does that count
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yeah close enough
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pasta is life [2]
I've never done anything like driving a long way to get to a BTMI! show I just really really really fucking love their tunes does that count
Of course. Just go see him when he's in your city.
everyone who really loves them is connected with them on some more significant level than just really liking their music
- Musically: Not only does BtMI! adapt a set of universally enjoyable and accessible genres--punk, ska punk, and indie rock--but they do it with either one of the following, or in many cases, both: a relatable quirk that's as much weird as it is fun; or sing-along oriented sentimental youthful punk (we all know how young people like to get sentimental!). Given the state of punk and indie today (also considering the timeless awesomeness of ska), their style is commendably timely.
- Lyrically: In the same way that The Wonder Years speak intelligently to a generation of teenagers suffering from first-world problems and mildly existential disillusionment with the modern world, BtMI! is all about being a young adult (~out of high school or in college) in the strange outsider world of not really liking the idea of working 9-to-5's, instead finding solace in art, friends, love, drinking, and just generally having fun. I find that there's plenty of people who are like this nowadays, so they naturally gravitate towards BtMI! fandom. Even if you don't fit this description to a tee, there are certain values and themes that are entailed in the lifestyle described in BtMI!'s lyrics that are just fundamental to human life: being poor, feeling worthless, working hard, believing in things, loving people, persevering, staying strong; these are all things that Jeff addresses frequently and passionately in his lyrics. Because teenagers these days are often thinking about what they're gonna do once they get out of high school, they connect pretty well with the
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Goddamn what an essay dude
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(continued from the very last word in my last post)
younger than 18 age group too. What Deathschool said about "Jeff [being] just in general much more involved with his fan base" has a lot to do with his emotional connection to them, which is a unique one at that.
- Ethically: They're like Fugazi except a lot less "holier than thou" (I know Ian doesn't mean to come off this way but he kinda does) because BtMI! is well known for bro'ing and being cool and witty and nice, so they're all around likeable guys which makes them much easier to connect with so peeps love 'em.
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Or to synthesise your argument to its finer points:
they're just fucking awesome
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Agreed.
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yeah that basically all explains it
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tbh i want to try doing some ethereal glitch ambient project like notwotwo and outh9x and none some silver tbh it will probably never happen
whats it like to actually be able to make music
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lakes listen to all those songs i just listed
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i don't know any "lakes"
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bro u just need to find a way to convince yourself you're the fucking shit and you make killer jams until you get enough practice with it that you actually are the fucking shit and make killer jams thats how i have found success in 95% of my work
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