I think part of the reason I can’t get into any “modern” rock musicians off tiktok is that they’re all so focused on getting big by harnessing the algorithm to work for them that there’s no like passion behind anything? Like today’s society already has a stupid thing where seeming sincere is cringe and all of those artists are making posts from their bedroom like “here’s a snippet of our new song. Would be cool if this blew up or something :) or not. It’s whatever” and then they repost 20 variations of that and it’s SOOOO boring. Have some stories about shit like punching each other in the face during recording to make you mad enough to do the whole thing in one take?? Show me you actually fucking CARE. GET WEIRD WITH IT. Show me that passion and effort went into your songs bc otherwise I’m going to assume you made it in a SoundCloud program using a royalty free drum track or something. Like by all means make sure you’re having fun with it but people are going to assume that you are what you market yourself as and if you dont take yourself at least somewhat seriously then absolutely no one will
PREV LITERALLY once you take the blood sweat tears and grime out of rock n roll what do you expect people to relate to
“My philosophy was always that art really could communicate to larger numbers of people instead of that elitist group of people that could afford it and ‘understand it.’”
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy (2020) dir. Ben Anthony
going to sound like an old phone-hater but genuinely younger people NEED to get offline and read actual books bcuz yr too set in this instagram/tik-tok/everything is polished and CLEAN mindset where if anything makes you uncomfortable its evil and bad and done always with malicious intent, you cannot criticize things with two parts, nothing is ever black and white it is either GOOD or BAD never in between and this is ruining yr fucking life skills and also, annoying me. like you need to go to a used bookstore and you have to pick up an old book and read it
honest to god if you told me gerard way themself is secretly bexless and wrote unholyverse i would believe you because you cannot convince me that the line “look at how He made you” would Not be an actual mcr lyric from an actual mcr song
