DanTravis62
Moderator
This isn't even remotely about metal tech
This isn't even remotely about metal tech
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VonBonfire
Well-known member
I'm annoyed you had to remind me that this once existed because I had successfully forgotten all about it.
Metal peaked out in the 90's you must've been busy watching your fritoes grow.
Techdeth
RESIDENT ROCK PROFESSOR
Well I don’t care about other music . And that’s why their music sucks . Theirs no soul in any of it . It’s just programs. I see why in person daily why their music sucks . They put zero soul and effort into it . Just does it sound like my fav artist ? I see .
DanTravis62
Moderator
i mean, I agree, but this is very specifically about gay hipster music and why it happened in the 2010s
Techdeth
RESIDENT ROCK PROFESSOR
I agree eith all that . But the metal kids are just like hipsters now . It’s so bad . Fake sounds and does it sound like my fav band . That’s the 2 things they all care about .
Techdeth
RESIDENT ROCK PROFESSOR
Sorry I ranted but it triggered me lol
TheGreatGreen
Well-known member
@Techdeth lol if you want a rant, here's a rant for you.
I still remember the first time I saw a dude on the sidewalk wearing a plaid shirt with suspenders (the shirt was brand new with the creases still in it), pants with the ankles hemmed up way too high, and a waxed mustache that would've made a Saturday morning top hat wearing cartoon villain blush. Fedora meticulously placed on his head leaned back just far enough for you to see just how much time he spent on putting product in and combing his hair juuust right. Looking back, I'm honestly surprised he wasn't holding a book way out in front of himself with a bold font title on the cover like "Bands I Know All About That You've Never Heard Of And Also I'm A Vegan - Please Think I'm Cool."
The whole movement was so lame. Everybody was trying so hard to advertise how "of the earth" and "down home" and "old world" they were so they could show they were anti-establishment, anti-capitalist, anti-corporation because they thought that aesthetic equated to authenticity, sincerity, simplicity, purity. Except they were also always decked out in every product that had a SKU at the Apple store, and whatever their favorite $14 Starbucks drink was that took 3 full minutes to describe to the barista when they ordered it.
You could tell they wanted so bad to appear rustic and at home in nature but none of them had ever left the city or suburbs, so they had no idea what that actually looked like. They all came across looking like groomsmen at a $150,000 "rustic chic" farmhouse wedding. It was as transparently insincere and try-hard as anything I've ever seen. You know those television / radio guys that have their "host" voice and persona they do? It was like the silent version of that.
I still remember the first time I saw a dude on the sidewalk wearing a plaid shirt with suspenders (the shirt was brand new with the creases still in it), pants with the ankles hemmed up way too high, and a waxed mustache that would've made a Saturday morning top hat wearing cartoon villain blush. Fedora meticulously placed on his head leaned back just far enough for you to see just how much time he spent on putting product in and combing his hair juuust right. Looking back, I'm honestly surprised he wasn't holding a book way out in front of himself with a bold font title on the cover like "Bands I Know All About That You've Never Heard Of And Also I'm A Vegan - Please Think I'm Cool."
The whole movement was so lame. Everybody was trying so hard to advertise how "of the earth" and "down home" and "old world" they were so they could show they were anti-establishment, anti-capitalist, anti-corporation because they thought that aesthetic equated to authenticity, sincerity, simplicity, purity. Except they were also always decked out in every product that had a SKU at the Apple store, and whatever their favorite $14 Starbucks drink was that took 3 full minutes to describe to the barista when they ordered it.
You could tell they wanted so bad to appear rustic and at home in nature but none of them had ever left the city or suburbs, so they had no idea what that actually looked like. They all came across looking like groomsmen at a $150,000 "rustic chic" farmhouse wedding. It was as transparently insincere and try-hard as anything I've ever seen. You know those television / radio guys that have their "host" voice and persona they do? It was like the silent version of that.
DanTravis62
Moderator
The crazy part is EVERY single part of that fashion element of it, 100% absolutely comes through in the music itself.
Like they all have a banjo or ukulele, a horn section, they are trying to grab at "authenticity" from every direction, but it's all fake.
Like they were trying to copy and paste the aesthetic onto their person, and onto the music itself - and ALL of it was completely insincere and awful
TheGreatGreen
Well-known member
Yep, that part got me. They were all trying to seem authentic but none of them actually came up with the idea to present themselves like that. They were all just obviously 1:1 copying some other image they'd seen somewhere else. "I need to look EXACTLY like that down to every last detail, THAT will surely make people think I'm a deep wise person who thinks for themselves" lol.
Also, "My music needs to appear authentic. I know, better shove as many acoustic instruments (specifically finished in dark brown) in there as we can find. That oughta do it."
rsm
Well-known member
one of the few millennial bands I liked was Purson.
DanTravis62
Moderator
The fact that it IMMEDIATELY became "target commercial" or big pharma commercial music as soon as it happened made it so achingly cringe, too
But the weird thing is that it went on, for years, even after being commodified
Like in the 90s when I was 11 and skateboarding and listening to Good Riddance and Strung Out and Suicidal Tendencies i would have been HORRIFIED if "the exhumation of virginia madison" or "united cigar" or "you can't bring me down" appeared on a Suburu commercial
But this shit happened and everyone just....accepted it
It was really strange, psychologically, to watch this fake aesthetic and music style just IMMEDIATELY be co-opted
TheGreatGreen
Well-known member
That was bizarre, yeah. To me that's what cemented just how fake it was, like if all the people participating actually felt how they they advertised themselves to feel, they would have been the first to decry all of that corporate capitalist stuff. But they openly embraced it. They were just a bunch of basic normies wearing costumes the whole time, happy to be a part of the fun new trend.
Rottweiler
Active member
Just looked that town up. Ausgezeichnet!
DanTravis62
Moderator
Prost!
if you're ever in the neighborhood you HAVE to go to the Munchen Haus, it's excellent. The Oktoberfest every year is fucking lit, too.
Rottweiler
Active member
Don't forget the eye contact when saying Prost!
I haven't been out that way in a long time. Did some diving out there in the hood. Road tripped the family across the USA a few times, PNW twice. I've been thinking of taking a MC trip to the PNW. My sister lives just outside of Portland, OR. I would really like to take a MC to the Alaska North coast.
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Scot
Active member
Britney 
thegame
Well-known member
…..doesn’t even begin to show my hatred of this crap. I’d rather carry L*rry’s next baby to full term up my transitioned ass than listen to this horseshit
DanTravis62
Moderator
..doesn’t even begin to show my hatred of this crap. I’d rather carry L*rry’s next baby to full term up my transitioned ass than listen to this horseshit
Gary my dude
Be glad you weren't forced to be around it and hear it with every social interaction you had for about a decade
I'm sure you had more than your fill of it anyways, but if you were a bit younger, you would have had it shoved down your throat every day all the time
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CoreyW
Well-known member
Fiesta Red
Well-known member
Yeah, only knew the Little Lion Man song, which I didn't think was that bad. But what do I know?