The rules are simple.
You sit in my car, you listen to Linkin Park. There will be demos.
In mine, you will hear the first 2 seconds of a hundred songs before I stop on something I wanna hear. It might be Linkin Park. It might be Ween. It might even be a random video game song. Just depends on what I’m feeling ATM.
“Someone get this man off the aux”
30 min later
“Alright gang all together now—FEEEEAR IS HOOOOWWW I FAAAALLL”
This is a Synthwave car, we’re going to listen Synthwave. Yes, this is Carpenter Brut playing from a cassette tape.
The Blood Machines OST is my favorite album of any genre, and I’ve never even seen the movie.
OMG ! How could I missed that for so long ! Straight to Bandcamp I must go immediately !!!
Does anyone else cringe hard every time Linkin Park is on the radio?
Even in their heyday I cringed a little. I can’t really describe why, but I never liked them much. Meanwhile my friends LOOOOOOVED these guys. This was at a time where Korn, Mudvayne, AFI, Tupac, Biggie, Wutang, etc., were all in my regular rotation. By all accounts this heavy rock and rap fusion should have resonated with me, but it kind of had the opposite effect. 311 did it earlier and better IMO.
If by cringe you mean rock, then yes.
We’re you an emo in high school? Did you walk around with oversized hoodies in the fog?
I was an extremely anxious kid in high school, keeping to myself and making sure never to express myself really in any way apart from making people laugh because it was a pretty risk free way to get people to accept you. Now after years of therapy I don’t really care if people think the music I like is cringe and I’m mostly happy to be myself and let people self filter.
Hopefully you can find the same soon and not worry so much about how your choice of music might compare to other people’s.
Yes some of us identified with emo music and culture. We were all young. We all had things we enjoyed. Many of us were looking for a shared identity and ways to express ourselves. Music was a powerful, cathartic experience for many of us. I can’t imagine my life if I hadn’t discovered Thursday. Some of my greatest memories are at shows with my friends - bands like Underoath and Norma Jean. Metal and emo/screamo are probably why I even survived high school.
My friends and I had a common language and love and way to express ourselves. I don’t know if you were just kind of making a joke here but I hope you aren’t insinuating that it was a bad thing to identify as a little emo or whatever when we were young.
Not bad. But it’s like looking back on the pic of you in JNCO jeans and shaking your head at your youth
As a now-adult, I think my dad ruined Lincoln Park as a go to “oldie” in the car because he played it frequently (especially after the lead killed himself). My brother went the way of the Jack Johnson while I turned to… well…
My kids get to listen to video game music because their parents are a particular kind of cringe, haha.
Bro, I wish my parents were cool enough to Linkin Park, this is what pure entitlement looks like
