This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. On Tuesday I posted the new video for a band called Makeout here on the website. I had posted about the band before, they’re on Rise Records, they recorded an album with John Feldmann, and the first single sounded like pretty standard pop-punk music that people like. So, I posted the new video without even listening to the song. That was a mistake. Not long after, I checked the forums and I saw people commenting on the lyrical content. I clicked over to the YouTube channel and read the lyrics. They’re disgusting sexist bullshit. (Also, the song sucks.) I deleted the news post from this site and won’t be posting about this album again. I debated if I wanted to write a post explaining this because I knew it would draw more attention to the song, and because I know the exact responses that will come from a certain type of internet commenter. However, I think it’s important to speak out about this kind of bullshit when we see it in our music scene. I hope that the band take some time to listen to the criticism coming their way right now and think about what kind of musicians and artists they want to be. (So far, it seems to be going about as I expected.) If any member wants to reach out to me privately, I’d be happy to explain my thoughts in more detail and what I think they should do going forward. You all look relatively young, you can do the right thing here and be better. And, on that note: I recommend following Megan Thompson and Anna Acosta on Twitter for more, and I’m sorry that I let this video slip through when I posted it the first time. Expand - View Original
i'm curious @Jason Tate , since this sets a sort of precedent here and i'd love to have a discussion about this. what is the border between something that you are posting and something that you wouldn't? i ask just because i know that you continue to post things about neck deep and moose blood, even when members that have committed gross acts are still in the band. i know obviously it's always your discretion and you might not be aware of some cases, but in the cases of acts doing gross shit getting posts on here, should we bring that to your attention? i'm just curious going forward
Wanna know why millennials get such a bad rap? Read the lyrics to this trite, foolish, embarrassing, and outright disgustingly juvenile garbage. The very fact that both Rise and Feldmann shrugged this song off and gave it the green light is enough for me to drive my head into the damn wall. Song seriously reads like a poorly-constructed tumblr blog from a Ronnie Radke diehard.
Talk about disgusting. This scene deserves far better and I think not promoting them goes a long way in doing that. Thanks for doing so and raising awareness on it as well.
no reason to put this on millennials, these lyrics are no different in intent from many pop punk songs from the last 15 years that people here still love
I wasn't. Chill. But in all seriousness, bands of this ilk - the new generation of "pop punk" - are mostly horrible, hence my remark.
wow, this band sucks on so many levels. the fact that they went out of their way to construct a problematic video (one which ends in the singer getting arrested for basically committing harassment/abuse) for a problematic song shows how shitty they are.
Checked out the song cause of this post. Definitely crude and juvenile lyrically. Idk this whole resentful ex tone comes off as unsavoury when put into music. I wouldn't have really thought twice about it, to be honest, so I appreciate you making a point to call it out and retract your statement because it's made me think critically about the music I listen to.
Bayside had a song that literally said: I'd grab your head by your hair and I'd hack it off. And put it on display at the front of the yard on a stick that's decorated with a little pink bow and a sign that says "Her friends and family should have taught her more about love." Now, I believe Raneri has addressed it, but they were writing about this shit back in the day and it was gross then.
While I agree that the lyrics are terrible and ridiculous, they really aren't that different from the stuff we listened to and loved in the early 2000's. Even though at my age now I can't listen to a song like this, I feel that its just very immature songwriting but 15 years ago no one would have batted an eye at these lyrics. I'm not defending the song at all, I'm just saying its a bit hypocritical to pick out this band specifically.
I'd like to think society in general has matured in the past 15 years and realized we can't talk about and to people like that. Saying "that's how it was done in the past" is a bad bad defense.