RUclips screwed over my fastest growing video by claiming it wasn’t advertiser friendly. They claim that it doesn’t effect the actual performance, but the vid instantly lost 98% of activity on being claimed. I changed the thumbnail and I hope this fixes it
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alice practice is specifically uncomfortable because Alice said she was sexually harassed in the studio during it's making, then Ethan sold their song as a "mic test" he built a beat around, downplaying her role in its creation. if u read her whole story it's pretty horrific what she went through
Ya i know, i just disagree with the video. To me it's very listenable. The vocals with all the noise give this song such an unique vibe. Especially compared with some of the newer songs that try to emulate this energy but end up just being too edgy for me.
@@KitoisBlooming i agree with the fact that it was super good but after reading alice's full story each time i listen i just keep imagining what she went through recording that song. it's just too much for me to to bare so that's why i don't listen to it. i really hate it because crystal castles was once such an important band to me.
anyone who's experienced even a bit of existential crisis can relate to it, idk if that in the end, if thats true or not, about lead singer i mean, but i still find that album incredible
I gasped and then started laughing when I heard that. I might have a soft spot for guys that rap fast with complicated wordplay, but if I hear you spit "spiritual lyrical miracle very cool", you lost me and I'm never coming back.
The "No means yes" song is one of the funniest moments on this entire channel. Once again youtube shows its constant deterioration and mistreatment of its creators, as do the advertisers
@Future Pants my brother in Christ, it is a joke, i don't generally bring it up, I was talking about that part of the video where brad says all of his viewers are white, straight men
Brown sugar is supposed to be offensive and edgy. It was in the 70's too but for different reasons - interracial sex was a no-no so Mick Jagger says "Hey let's write a song about the history and raunchiness of interracial sex" and there it is. The people who tell you no one was offended in the 70's? Yeah they were super offended but not because it was about racism, because they were upset it even be suggested that white dudes had sex with black women. The Stones were the "bad boys" back then too, a lot of their songs were denied radio play for sexual themes.
Vaguely similar situation with the Buzzcocks. Lots of punk bands at the time picked really vulgar names (and in this case song topics) for shock value or to repulse mainstream audiences. A couple more gems include: The Crucifucks, Butthole Surfers, and Circle Jerks.
@@roleplayingpain4349 That was implied, it didn't need to be fixed. It's important to know what exactly set them off for the full context - interracial relationships were still taboo in the 70's and knowing that gives the song more impact.
The Biggie line about blowing up like the World Trade is in reference to the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, where a Ryder van was parked in the subterranean parking lot underneath the towers and filled with explosives, a la Oklahoma City. Only 7 people perished in the attack, but over 1000 people were injured. It’s understandable that when people think of the World Trade Center, they think of 9/11, but this was kinda like the proto-9/11 that was a lot less successful.
Peanut Butter Jelly Time. The lyrics are about running from the cops as a black guy ("Where he at, there he go, peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat.") and the guy who made it died in a shootout with the police. It just gives the upbeat song an ominous vibe now.
The producer of the song has actually come forward to clarify that the Jermaine Fuller who died in a police shootout was an entirely different Jermaine Fuller from the one in The Buckwheat Boyz despite conflation of the two by many sources, so if anything this is just a really bizarre coincidence.
I still think "do what you want" would be a weird song even if it wasn't R Kelly, because the song is obviously about how Lady Gaga feels about how media is treating her. While R Kelly is just singing about sex.
They made a second version of it with Christina Aguilera instead of Kelly. It's less uncomfortable to think about, but.... I'm sorry Kelly put in a better vocal performance than Aguilera did. It's not even really close. So neither version really holds up.
Has anyone suggested Lostprophets yet? Basically every song they have is unlistenable given what their lead singer got arrested for (look it up if you don’t already know; it’s disgusting), but their most famous song, “Rooftops”, has a line about having no regrets. REALLY, DUDE? YOU DON’T REGRET ANY OF YOUR ACTIONS? NOT ONE THING?
This is actually wrong, at least for the original song. The first two stanzas are allowed to be sung, they just aren't "part of the official anthem"- that's just the third stanza. However, the Nazis added their own stanzas, the "Horst Wessel Lied" for which you might get in trouble.
34:01 - For those that want more info on Sweet Trip that he skipped over instead of going into for this video: Roby (male singer) sexually assaulted Valerie, made the last album as a dedicated “romantic/love proclamation” to her, and now is trying to leave the country/ go into hiding. Reddit idiots and “super fans” got mad that Valerie’s husband of 20 years was disgusted by Roby and voiced this. These fans then attacked the husband for “breaking up Roby and Valerie” because they wouldn’t get more music from Sweet Trip
What a reddit moment. I’m sad about sweet trip but how entitled do you have to be to want to have a woman stay with the man who sexually assaulted her so YOU can keep living in a fantasy
A bit more on 25:40 Alice Practice. The story Ethan Kath tells about this track was that the vocals were a sound check of Alice Glass singing (hence the title) which he later made into a song himself. Alice Glass would later say this story was a lie he made up, and just one of many instances of him minimising her input in the band as much as possible. In her interviews about his abusiveness, one of the things he used to focus on was how Alice Glass was a lesser member of Crystal Castles and how she needed him or she would never succeed alone. Knowing that bit of extra info just makes Alice Practice feel like such a spit in the face.
i unironically made a undertale animation to "my life is like a video game" 2 years ago and i want to jump of a bridge because of it, please brad, throw me in the trash can
My boyfriend loves Tally Hall, and when he played “Banana Man” for me for the first time, I was in horror. He tried to convince me that it wasn’t offensive, but it was definitely a weird flex from them.
Iirc it was /specifically/ one of the members of the group who had come up with the idea of it, while the others didn't actually realize that it could be taken as offensive iirc. Edit: so I looked into it a bit more and the actual reason he had the idea of it was that it was actually based on something he'd seen late at night while watching TV, and he wanted to base the song and video on the vibes and idea of just laid-back, chill sorts of tropical aesthetics. That doesn't stop it from coming out as offensive, but the purpose for it was never to be something that WAS racist. Its like someone making something purposefully "hippie" without knowing what the actual history to the hippie movement is and ending up using racial stereotypes without knowing that they're racial stereotypes. Personally, I think the best things we can do to help stuff like that from happening is to actually explain WHY things are offensive, rather than pointing at something and saying "that's racist" and refusing to elaborate, because a lotta people probably DONT know why it's offensive.
i love tally hall to death so do all my friends, i think we all collectively pretend "banana man" doesn't exist. tally hall has made some absolutely bangers but yea that one sucks.
Bananas have always been funny, ever since the world almost unanimously adopted the word "banana" to describe that fruit. So naturally, there's been a lot of songs about them.
Gentlemen Let’s not forget that “Brown sugar” was almost named “🅱️lack 🅱️ussy” when the stones were recording the album. Still 10/10 track in a 10/10 album imo.
Brown Sugar is maybe the only instance of a song for me that has aged so poorly in terms of the lyrical subject matter, but is such a banger that I still listen to it and put it on my playlists anyway
@@michaelvessel4604 I honestly think the lyricism is in good taste. It’s about the hypocrisy and general disgusting attitude of racists. They do all this horrid shit to people based off of skin color, yet when it comes down to it they still view the same people as desirable sexual objects and get rowdy over, “brown sugar”. The stones, much similar to the kinks at the time, were interested in sending out legitimate social messages through more pop oriented tracks and i honestly don’t see an issue with it.
it sucks to discover the things abt the singer from Daughters, it's hard to "separate the art from the artist" because with the current context of things and lyrics, the discomfort is now caused by something completely different, not the interesting kind, the "i do not want to listen to this kind", but who knows might be different for other people
Falling in reverse really pulled a "say a bunch of words that rhyme but don't actually form coherent sentences to sound like a skilled rapper" on us, huh. That's not an issue, though, since they clearly fooled no one.
@@Forestgravy90 "Drugs" and "losing my life" are amazing too. They also did newer versions of "I'm not a vampire" and "the drug in me is you" called "I'm not a vampire revamped" and "the drug in me is reimagined" which are in the style of classical music and they really show how much ronnie's voice has changed. "Popular monster" is also awesome.
I think in the case with Daughters, it's impossible to separate the art from the artist when the music is about being a fucked up person when the artist IS a fucked up person. I can still listen to Vektor despite David DiSanto's abusive stuff because Vektor's music isn't about being an abusive person. There's absolutely a place of respect for being genuine in music and "keeping it real" but that tends to only apply when it feels justified and/or relatable and neither of those apply from the POV of an abuser
I was thinking exactly this, if the art is about expressing how horrible the authorial voice is, and then the real artist turns out to be actually horrible, the "separating the art from the artist" discussion makes no sense
I completely agree and i respect your opinion. If you ever change your mind about Vektor then i recommend the bands Vexovoid, Cryptosis, and Euphoria Ω
Until there's prosecution it's one person's word against another's though. It's a little different to the Ethan Kath situation as there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to back up her accusations. Either way I still enjoy both of them, unfortunately musicians particularly those extremely creative are usually going to be fucked up in a number of ways
27:09 Truthfully, after the revelations revolving around Lex and Lingua, I personally found revisiting SINNER GET READY far more difficult of a listen than any of Daughters’ work revisited. It’s just so discomfortingly apparent just how much of that record was based around Alexis and Kristin’s relationship with him. Bathes the record in a whole new light.
I also agree I Took A Pill In Ibiza (remix) was a great song and is still a great song. The song would be great based on the excellent drop and production alone but it even has interesting lyrics, especially for a dance track.
Falling In Reverse genuinely inspire me, bcos their success shows me that you can literally make fucking anything and people will buy it if u put it in front of the right people. You could make the most garbage unlistenable music imaginable and still somehow there's an audience out there somewhere who genuinely enjoys it
Literally any grlwood song, but especially Hard to Touch You or Take off Your Clothes. After knowing what the drummer had to go through it literally gives me chills.
The irony of a band that blew up singing about the rampant rape culture and normalization of men treating women horribly having its lead singer secretly sexually abuse the drummer while writing these songs??? It’s incredibly disheartening.
I had a huge realization of what the “Japanese banana” song was when Alvin said “I want a banana”. Pretty sure my bus driver from kindergarten played this song a few times to entertain us. I feel so uncomfortable with having this memory I didn’t even know existed unlocked.
It just sounds like annoying children complaining about no bananas shown in Japan, with the Asian stereotypical beats that label it from Japan Like its Alvin and the Chipmunks, that's pretty much it
The entirety of YWGWYW seems to be about giving up yourself to your worst demons, which is exactly what Alexis do and that add another layer of dark to that album.
@@iamahorseradish3860 I don’t think anything has to be “disturbing in a cool way” for it’s disturbing themes to be a positive. I feel like some sort of fuckin psychopath god when I listen to YWGWYW regardless of the context behind its horror anyway
@@iamahorseradish3860 I think the reason I connected to the album was only strengthened in a way. With past articles on Alexis and band Im not that surprised at the turnout. It's that sense of black coldness and feeling of deep sickening horror I get from the music and from the personal feelings and experiences it brings to surface again. But that's what people need sometimes, it feels like a shakeup and reevaulation of reality when those feelings strike real and deep. The darkest shit has brought the most reflection and positive change in me to be plain. That is also the appeal for me of some of the underbellies of music like Whitehouse or Bizarre Uproar. The takeaways from this stuff really, really, hinges on you, this is just how I feel.
The most popular local band in my area does a cover of Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me." Problem with that is, they're all 40 something white men, and multiple members do a full on impression of Shaggy the whole time. The song itself hasn't aged poorly, but that cover hits your ears like spoiled milk.
Lmao. I just kept repeating NOOOO!! When I heard the song say “Don’t you know that a girl means yes when she says no”. Felt like I was reacting with you. 😂
Brown Sugar is about the juxtaposition of the horrors of slavery and sex trafficking opposed to the personal value he found in a relationship(admittedly mostly sexual). It's similar in vein to a socially less aware version of "Date Rape". Lots of songs of that period were dark topic hidden behind pop infused happy tunes. "I've been told you're inferior, but damn you don't seem inferior to me" is a good take on "how come you taste so good".
i honestly love the song despite it being really yikes in the world of race politics, it's an inspired song about romanticizing a life of tropical peace and losing your mind in a painful and chaotic western lifestyle.
The sound was cut out for the "Seventeen Forever" part, and honestly, it actually made it funnier because I had to focus on the look of absolute pain and anguish on Brad's face as he listened.
That "No" song was so bad on so many levels it doesn't even matter if it was well intentioned or that it "was a different time", not a single message or detail in that song is anything less than predatory behavior being spruced up to look cute, about what is a terrible experience most girls will at some point experience with an adult man _including_ the singer. It's meant to make this child seem like a seductress in that interaction. It ends _directly_ telling the adult man character that physically grabbed onto the 14 year old that "No means yes."
Pink Floyd is one of my favourite bands, I absolutely love the majority of their music, but FUCK ME if Terminal Frost isn't just 6 mins of opening music from Public Access VCRs, I can't even have it on in the background when I'm doing stuff.
The entire self titled album and Blurry face by 21 pilots is just filled to the brim with "I'm 14 and this is deep" actually a lot of 21 pilots feels like that to me. They try so hard to be profound.
The buzzcocks are actually pretty great. If you've ever seen the incredible movie Shawn of the dead, the credits song is by them. They also made "What do I get" which is also pretty great
One thing I learned about the I Love College song is that for the demo version, Asher Roth used the instrumental version of Say It Ain't So by Weezer, a song about Rivers as a child growing up with an alcoholic step-father and how it negativity impacted his life and then be used on a song about a privileged white boy rapping about how great alcohol is.
Never heard Seventeen Forever but I looked up the lyrics and read about the song on Wikipedia after seeing this video. Trace Cyrus says it's about "wanting to have a relationship with a girl who's underage so bad and how age limitations don't let you do that." which is mega cringe, but at the time the song was released, he would've only been 18 singing about wanting to be with a 17 year old so...let's just hope his views have changed I guess. Lol
Damn that was a short roller coaster to read . If he was 18, then it was just a really dumb thing to say without thinking of any further implications extending beyond his own situation. Forgivable, but cringe to say lol Edit: I remember listening to this song as a teen and I never thought the lyrics implied any age gap. I just thought it was about two 17 year olds with heightened hormones about to have sex and how sometimes that can change relationship dynamics if they aren't ready (which makes sense for 17 yr olds); hence saying "a mistake" and "its not right". I also saw it through a sort of purity culture lense where sex outside of marriage, esp for teens, is considered a "mistake/not right", while also slightly subverting it by acknowledging how special and human it is. And the chorus being about how intense and great that type of infatuation feels when you're young and in the midst of it; so wanting to be 17 forever. He should have never said that bc I think a lot of people never would have thought it was about wanting to date someone under 18 when you're older lmao oops I can absolutely hear it now I like my old interpretation better
once again for the repost, the only daughters song thats aged poorly is "The Reason They Hate Me" or w/e it's called. dropping a song abt how ur haters are unenlightened definitely hits different when you are a genuinely terrible person.
The whole separation of art from artist thing is always difficult, and it's REALLY subjective. Which is what makes it difficult. I think another great example is the classical composer Richard Wagner. For those who don't know, the dude was a pretty virulent antisemite. As a result, in the mid-2000s one of the main orchestras in Israel (idr if it was the Jerusalem Symphony or the Israel Philharmonic) had an internal discussion as to whether they should boycott his works, and not perform them anymore. Ultimately the musicians union advocated for continuing to program the works, because they enjoyed playing them. I don't know if this discussion has been revisited since then. But I can't help but wonder if they'd come to the same decision nowadays. 2022 is a very different time. On the other hand, they're still playing his stuff - there hasn't been any public backlash forcing them to stop.
Also Wagner influenced like literally everyone in the classical realm going into the turn of the century. You might be able to discard his stuff specifically, but it’s kind of hard to deny the influence he had.
I think where most people have a hard time separating the art from the artist is when the personality of the artist plays a central role in the piece, especially if it’s a huge part of what makes it appealing in the first place. I’m sure that Wagner specifically wasn’t the “protagonist” to his pieces
One way to look at it is, if the artist is dead and you can remove their own personal message from the art, then you can separate them. Especially since everyone can put their own interpretation of a work into it. Pick Personal Jesus, for example: Depeche Mode wrote that song as a pickup song, where the singer wants to be his girl's "Personal Jesus". Johnny Cash covered it as an earnest Christian Song about how anything can be your own personal Jesus, and Marilyn Manson covered it as a song about how cult leaders manipulate people into doing whatever they want.
Brad this is still in my top 20 RUclips videos ever, and as someone terminally online that is a high compliment. Thank you for the reupload of this hood classic.
Honestly I feel like the song that aged the worst off YWGWYW after all the allegations against Alexis Marshall came out was Long Road, No Turns (my favorite song off that album and one of my favorites of all time but I digress) considering his only statement on the matter was "idk why she'd say this our relationship was nothing but loving I'm lawyering up" and the songs themes your personal suffering not mattering because other people will be going through worse shit
"It may please your heart to see some shackled, wrists and throat Naked as the day they were born But no one’s going to do that for you No one will do that for you"
Reading the lyrics it feels like the song is making fun of that idea. "Everybody climbs up high then falls real far A little is all it takes" This is about the futility of success if failure is guaranteed (in death), success only means you'll lose more. "Well, ain't it funny how it works Someone's always got it worse They hit the ground harder than you" This ties into the idea of climbing high and falling far, but is making fun of the idea that someone else's suffering negates yours. What is the point if they hit the ground harder if you both are dead on the pavement? "But I won’t know what to say When you come undone When you come apart Remember that the road is long Remember that the road is dark Don’t waste your time learning the words to somebody else’s song" Here, because o the futility of life and suffering, the narrator doesn't know what to say, he feels hopeless and therefore doesn't know what to say to others other than to keep going down the painful, long, dark road, and be themselves. But earlier he states that, "These are just the words to somebody else’s song." so even this advice and struggle is not unique to him, so there is nothing new he he can say to help those who are suffering. "So don’t play along, or play a part Don’t look to me under the weight of your shouldered cross" He is repeating the advice to be yourself, but he warns that suffering is futile, and he has no words, like to "be yourself" or "keep going" or "someone's got it worse than you" to help you, because suffering and life are pointless, and these things don't matter in the end. The album is more about anger at the world, along with the hopelessness, despair, and fear at your inability to change the world or your life, the existential horror of realizing that the world functions on the suffering of the oppressed for the benefit of the few. It's the existential dread that you only have one life, with seconds ticking away as you read this, and the only options are to brutalize and enslave others to have a good life yourself, or suffer for the benefit of others. The songs are about alienation in the modern world (City Song) how even anger and hate at the world feeds the system (Satan in the Wait), pleading to an unfeeling universe (The Lord's Song), fury at those in charge (The Reason They Hate Me), or is stories within this theme, numbing the pain with drugs or substances (Less Sex), or the dread of realizing that this existence you wasted half your life on is not the one you wanted, reeling in terror as the rosy glasses are ripped off to reveal the terrible truth (Ocean Song). I've always conceptualized the album as being generally about what I'll call "the existential dread of class consciousness". With self contained stories: The Flammable Man → Ocean Song → Guest House. The only outlier lyrically is the song Daughter, which seems to mostly be about suicide and trauma, par for the course with this album to be honest.
Yeah, this is I think very much a case of something just *aging* poorly. I very much doubt they had any ill intent with it, but in today's world it sounds like a song that is very much purposefully *going against the grain*.
Definitely agree, as ironically it was the song that got me into them in the first place. Pretty sure they didnt have any bad intentions just it aged wrong compared to the rest of the album. Would still listen to it when going through all of Marvin but just poorly aged
kimya from the moldy peaches wrote a song about 9/11 and she was clearly very emotional over the whole situation, the most popular live performance of it she is basically on the verge of tears the entire time
I really don’t feel like the piece of shit act turning out to be true makes someone’s art more interesting. its just disturbing, like confession tapes. to find it intriguing is a very much a male and never been SA’d perspective to have
If Ass Like That by Eminem doesn't come up I'll be shocked Edit: Ass Like That aged way worse than FACK 😭 the lines about Hilary Duff and the Olsen twins....
Daughters is truly such a massive shame, because You Won't Get What You Want is such a genius, no-skip album. I had always hoped that I could see them live by some crazy miracle, but now I don't think that'll be happening. The worst people always have to ruin the best things. That's just the music industry nowadays, I guess.
They say you shouldn't build relationships over scar tissue but watching your torment when having to listen to Falling in Reverse feels like my love language
The Moldy Peaches one reminds me of the Strokes, they were set to release their first album Is This It, along with the song New York City Cops ("they ain't too sma~art"), in the US on September 25, 2001-- the CD release was delayed until October while they quickly replaced it with a different song.
Japanese Banana is sampled by Eminem on "Ass Like That" lol I recognized it immediately because as soon as I heard it I went "the you move it, I can't believe it" lmao
Already watched it Rewatching it just to see the Brad-doing-the-Brokencyde-scream part again Shoutout to that guy in the chat saying "I don't think this song aged poorly because it was never good"
Wearing two condoms at once increases the chances of breakage. Also, "I Love College" was originally supposed to sample "Say it Ain't So" by Weezer but they couldn't clear it.
Blurred Lines was always gross, always made me cringe when it was on the radio as soon as it released barely anyone liked it just due to the implications and controversies 😬
The Treat You Better guy didn't just say "no one picked up on the nice guy vibes when it was released". That was like, literally the main criticism of the song. What a r/iamverysmart tool
Genuinely kinda surprised that "Run for Your Life" by the Beatles wasn't on here. Lennon, a man known for emotionally abusing his wife and having once struck her, sings about how if he catches his s/o cheating, he'll murder her. It was so incredibly bad that John himself disavowed it just a few years after release.
Hearing some of these songs for the first time (except for the Shawn Mendez one), I gotta agree with Brad here. I admire the sentiment in I Love College and I wish that more artists would promote things like consent and safety. I don't normally like rap, but it's not a bad song. Also, if I do recall, there are some parts of Japan that do grow bananas. There's even a specific species called the Japanese Banana, or the Musa basjoo. It unfortunately doesn't seem to produce fruit, but it's used for making some really fine cloth. Kinda like linen or bamboo cloth.
Anything by Lostprophets has aged terribly for obvious reasons, but especially the music video for 'A Town Called Hypocrisy.' (Not so much the song, but given what we know now, that video has reeeeaaaally aged poorly).
“The Rolling Stones are much more interesting now that I know they’re racist” 10/10 brad would have loved the Beatles if only Paul McCartney never insisted on unsegregated concerts.
I remember my first exposure to Fack was in 8th grade. Us guys played it in the locker room after gym class and laughed hard at how raunchy it was & the gerbil outro. Good times. It hasn't aged well at all though.
RUclips screwed over my fastest growing video by claiming it wasn’t advertiser friendly. They claim that it doesn’t effect the actual performance, but the vid instantly lost 98% of activity on being claimed. I changed the thumbnail and I hope this fixes it
Great content as always
there's no mf audio Bradley I thought my headphones broke
I was literally just wondering where this video went lol
damn fck youtube as usual
Shame cuz this seemed to be doing quite the numbers aswell, well back to square one lol.
Blurred Lines didn't age poorly. There was a lot of outcry about how creepy and awful it was WHEN IT WAS FRESH.
Yeah I remember how big of a deal it was when it came out. No one really remembers it now
it was still played on the radio unfortunately :/
Pharrell is still trying to shake off the "creep" vibe, idk where Robin thicke went tho lmao
@@ronthornton6398 he got sued the Marvin Gaye estate then made an album for his ex-wife that flopped.
so you could argue that it changed poorly, just really really fast
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alice practice is specifically uncomfortable because Alice said she was sexually harassed in the studio during it's making, then Ethan sold their song as a "mic test" he built a beat around, downplaying her role in its creation. if u read her whole story it's pretty horrific what she went through
i literally can't even listen to crystal castles anymore because alice's story makes it all so haunting to me. fuck ethan kath.
but the song is so good
@@KitoisBlooming that's why the whole situation sucks so much, their music was great but was borne of a really horrible place
Ya i know, i just disagree with the video. To me it's very listenable. The vocals with all the noise give this song such an unique vibe. Especially compared with some of the newer songs that try to emulate this energy but end up just being too edgy for me.
@@KitoisBlooming i agree with the fact that it was super good but after reading alice's full story each time i listen i just keep imagining what she went through recording that song. it's just too much for me to to bare so that's why i don't listen to it. i really hate it because crystal castles was once such an important band to me.
Daughters has actually aged perfectly. I always thought that the lyrics on their music was coming from some violent monster, and I was right.
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as far as extreme music goes their lyrics in newer projects weren't actually that fucked up
@@hidden7249 By the standards of the weenies in the comments and stream chat they are
anyone who's experienced even a bit of existential crisis can relate to it, idk if that in the end, if thats true or not, about lead singer i mean, but i still find that album incredible
I lost it on Falling in Reverse doing the "spiritual lyrical miracle" line on Rolling Stone without an absolute hint of irony.
Fun fact: that song was actually released before Rap God
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@@Lazinski sad that talentless hacks would rip off real musical genius 👊👊
I think the "spiritual lyrical miracle" line originates from a Logic song from 2011. It isn't on streaming, so it's kind of a deep cut
I gasped and then started laughing when I heard that.
I might have a soft spot for guys that rap fast with complicated wordplay, but if I hear you spit "spiritual lyrical miracle very cool", you lost me and I'm never coming back.
The "No means yes" song is one of the funniest moments on this entire channel. Once again youtube shows its constant deterioration and mistreatment of its creators, as do the advertisers
That shit was hilariously bad. Who the fuck okayed that even back then 😭😂
Like bruh that “a girl means yes when she says no” had me gojng PAUSE REWIND and then AYO WHAT THE FUCK
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@Future Pants my brother in Christ, it is a joke, i don't generally bring it up, I was talking about that part of the video where brad says all of his viewers are white, straight men
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@@bale5482 🤓
One Hispanic Bisexual man to another, solidarity brother 🤙
Brown sugar is supposed to be offensive and edgy. It was in the 70's too but for different reasons - interracial sex was a no-no so Mick Jagger says "Hey let's write a song about the history and raunchiness of interracial sex" and there it is. The people who tell you no one was offended in the 70's? Yeah they were super offended but not because it was about racism, because they were upset it even be suggested that white dudes had sex with black women. The Stones were the "bad boys" back then too, a lot of their songs were denied radio play for sexual themes.
Vaguely similar situation with the Buzzcocks. Lots of punk bands at the time picked really vulgar names (and in this case song topics) for shock value or to repulse mainstream audiences. A couple more gems include: The Crucifucks, Butthole Surfers, and Circle Jerks.
not because it was about racism but because they themselves were racist* there fixed that for you
Context is lost on people these days
@@roleplayingpain4349 That was implied, it didn't need to be fixed. It's important to know what exactly set them off for the full context - interracial relationships were still taboo in the 70's and knowing that gives the song more impact.
@@grizelda4526 It really is. I had to explain "Money For Nothing" a few times too.
When falling in reverse came up you completely changed your voice I could tell that band assaulted you in the past
Falling in reverse has by default assaulted everyone who has had to listen to "Game Over"
@@katiequeen7225 I want to file a police report after hearing that shit in this video, Brad should've muted it for our safety
I LOST MY WAY AGAIINNN 😔
Brad: we're all white straight men!
Me, a gay Native American-Mexican woman: * nervous sweating *
lmao mood
look White to me
@@againsttheleftandright4065 thanks for letting her know what her ethnicity is
@@billymays1761 yw Billy Mays, it may be an r/swoosh moment
@@billymays1761
No problem!
The Biggie line about blowing up like the World Trade is in reference to the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, where a Ryder van was parked in the subterranean parking lot underneath the towers and filled with explosives, a la Oklahoma City. Only 7 people perished in the attack, but over 1000 people were injured. It’s understandable that when people think of the World Trade Center, they think of 9/11, but this was kinda like the proto-9/11 that was a lot less successful.
Honestly the most offensive thing in this video was Brad saying he’s not that familiar with Pink Floyd
Zoomer moment
Made me cringe Ngl. Of course he cant know everything but pink floyd???
As a huge Pink Floyd fan who's listened to them from front to back- good. The less PF fans, the better.
@@DTheAustralian huhh
@@tumultuousv
Pink Floyd fans are annoying and terrible.
Peanut Butter Jelly Time.
The lyrics are about running from the cops as a black guy ("Where he at, there he go, peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat.") and the guy who made it died in a shootout with the police.
It just gives the upbeat song an ominous vibe now.
Holy shit I never knew that about the guy who made it. And apparently Snoop Dogg was his brother in law lmao
@@Lysergic_Fox snoop Dogg tried to talk him down
The producer of the song has actually come forward to clarify that the Jermaine Fuller who died in a police shootout was an entirely different Jermaine Fuller from the one in The Buckwheat Boyz despite conflation of the two by many sources, so if anything this is just a really bizarre coincidence.
damn, i only knew about the video with the dancing banana
the Dodie Stevens one is even weirder when you take in the fact that she was putting out novelty songs at the age of 12
Treatment of child stars both in music and in television was in an extremely different place back before media labor laws were well established.
I still think "do what you want" would be a weird song even if it wasn't R Kelly, because the song is obviously about how Lady Gaga feels about how media is treating her. While R Kelly is just singing about sex.
They made a second version of it with Christina Aguilera instead of Kelly. It's less uncomfortable to think about, but.... I'm sorry Kelly put in a better vocal performance than Aguilera did. It's not even really close. So neither version really holds up.
Also, I was convinced the R Kelly situation was already public when they released it? I was so disappointed with Gaga
he must be taking the piss
I'll be here all week
Has anyone suggested Lostprophets yet? Basically every song they have is unlistenable given what their lead singer got arrested for (look it up if you don’t already know; it’s disgusting), but their most famous song, “Rooftops”, has a line about having no regrets. REALLY, DUDE? YOU DON’T REGRET ANY OF YOUR ACTIONS? NOT ONE THING?
I've never listened to Lostprophets but this line,jesus fuckin christ;)
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. I was banging that song on Guitar Hero eras ago.... That singer is such a fucking idiot holy shit.
Is that Ian Watkins's band?
@@velphidrow8317 yup
@@kryvyi_juan українська?
Falling In Reverse sounds like how it feels to be a sheltered 4-channer for 99% of your life and Rolling Stone being the only example of rap for u
4channers would mock FIR for being music for autists.
The German national anthem.
It aged so poorly that they had to cut it up into parts you're allowed to sing, and parts wich you aren't.
National anthems don't count, pretty much every anthem was changed at some point xD
This is actually wrong, at least for the original song. The first two stanzas are allowed to be sung, they just aren't "part of the official anthem"- that's just the third stanza.
However, the Nazis added their own stanzas, the "Horst Wessel Lied" for which you might get in trouble.
Just sing Erika and smile
@@johnwinter2252 No :)
Yes
As a bisexual trans woman, I'm proud to be a straight male in Brad's community.
Non-binary pansexual here. I guess we're all straight white men now. :P
Hello other bisexual trans woman
@@EvEvEvEvEvelien hii!! nice to meet another of my kind :>
@@ms-plasma-mc I need more people like me to talk to, we should be friends now
Can I join your bisexual trans women club too?
34:01 - For those that want more info on Sweet Trip that he skipped over instead of going into for this video:
Roby (male singer) sexually assaulted Valerie, made the last album as a dedicated “romantic/love proclamation” to her, and now is trying to leave the country/ go into hiding.
Reddit idiots and “super fans” got mad that Valerie’s husband of 20 years was disgusted by Roby and voiced this. These fans then attacked the husband for “breaking up Roby and Valerie” because they wouldn’t get more music from Sweet Trip
What a reddit moment. I’m sad about sweet trip but how entitled do you have to be to want to have a woman stay with the man who sexually assaulted her so YOU can keep living in a fantasy
the new album was kinda bad anyway v:d:c always best
how creepy, its like those people dont care someones being severely abused as long as they get a catchy song out of it
typical redditor behavior
What the hell… I actually liked their music too
I can’t believe Brad defends The
Chipmunks like this. Disgusting.
I used to jam out to chipmunk versions like 13 years ago 💀
A bit more on 25:40 Alice Practice. The story Ethan Kath tells about this track was that the vocals were a sound check of Alice Glass singing (hence the title) which he later made into a song himself. Alice Glass would later say this story was a lie he made up, and just one of many instances of him minimising her input in the band as much as possible. In her interviews about his abusiveness, one of the things he used to focus on was how Alice Glass was a lesser member of Crystal Castles and how she needed him or she would never succeed alone. Knowing that bit of extra info just makes Alice Practice feel like such a spit in the face.
i unironically made a undertale animation to "my life is like a video game" 2 years ago and i want to jump of a bridge because of it, please brad, throw me in the trash can
My boyfriend loves Tally Hall, and when he played “Banana Man” for me for the first time, I was in horror. He tried to convince me that it wasn’t offensive, but it was definitely a weird flex from them.
Iirc it was /specifically/ one of the members of the group who had come up with the idea of it, while the others didn't actually realize that it could be taken as offensive iirc.
Edit: so I looked into it a bit more and the actual reason he had the idea of it was that it was actually based on something he'd seen late at night while watching TV, and he wanted to base the song and video on the vibes and idea of just laid-back, chill sorts of tropical aesthetics. That doesn't stop it from coming out as offensive, but the purpose for it was never to be something that WAS racist. Its like someone making something purposefully "hippie" without knowing what the actual history to the hippie movement is and ending up using racial stereotypes without knowing that they're racial stereotypes.
Personally, I think the best things we can do to help stuff like that from happening is to actually explain WHY things are offensive, rather than pointing at something and saying "that's racist" and refusing to elaborate, because a lotta people probably DONT know why it's offensive.
i love tally hall as well, and when i found that song a few months ago i was in shock lmao
today class, we're going to learn about red flags in relationships
@@omni0414 while its true that the song has not aged well at all, playing it isn't a "red flag" bud. Grow up
i love tally hall to death so do all my friends, i think we all collectively pretend "banana man" doesn't exist. tally hall has made some absolutely bangers but yea that one sucks.
“Racial, not racist” I bet that this is gonna be a running gag for future streams
If I had a nickel for every banana related song on this list, I would have two nickels. Wich isn't alot, but it's wierd that it happened twice.
On the upside, Banana Ghost by Man Man is a fantastic track.
If I had a million dollars for every song that used the word Hynotize in the title and ruined it in the oddest ways, I could trademark the word.
Bananas have always been funny, ever since the world almost unanimously adopted the word "banana" to describe that fruit. So naturally, there's been a lot of songs about them.
Poor bananas out here getting a rum deal. Banana Phone"s alright though
"Blow up like the World Trade" is referencing the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993
Gentlemen
Let’s not forget that “Brown sugar” was almost named “🅱️lack 🅱️ussy” when the stones were recording the album.
Still 10/10 track in a 10/10 album imo.
Still would've been an amazing name
@@bigpoppagaming2013
It’s not racist, it’s not racial, it’s 🅱️ASED
Brown Sugar is maybe the only instance of a song for me that has aged so poorly in terms of the lyrical subject matter, but is such a banger that I still listen to it and put it on my playlists anyway
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@@michaelvessel4604 I honestly think the lyricism is in good taste. It’s about the hypocrisy and general disgusting attitude of racists. They do all this horrid shit to people based off of skin color, yet when it comes down to it they still view the same people as desirable sexual objects and get rowdy over, “brown sugar”. The stones, much similar to the kinks at the time, were interested in sending out legitimate social messages through more pop oriented tracks and i honestly don’t see an issue with it.
it sucks to discover the things abt the singer from Daughters, it's hard to "separate the art from the artist" because with the current context of things and lyrics, the discomfort is now caused by something completely different, not the interesting kind, the "i do not want to listen to this kind", but who knows might be different for other people
What he do
@@tumultuousv From what I've found the lead singer Alexis Marshall raped and sexually abused Lingua Ignota
@@tumultuousv he physically abused Lingua Ignota. She had to get surgery after what he did.
Theres been no proof. I still support him and hope he gets back out on tour.
@@tumultuousv He did nothing. He got with an ex-wife who wants money.
Falling in reverse really pulled a "say a bunch of words that rhyme but don't actually form coherent sentences to sound like a skilled rapper" on us, huh. That's not an issue, though, since they clearly fooled no one.
How can anyone like them?
@@Forestgravy90 Because their music Is a lot better nowadays.
@@Emil_Stoltz is it? Find that hard to believe sorry
@@Forestgravy90 "Voices in my head" is a banger!
@@Forestgravy90 "Drugs" and "losing my life" are amazing too. They also did newer versions of "I'm not a vampire" and "the drug in me is you" called "I'm not a vampire revamped" and "the drug in me is reimagined" which are in the style of classical music and they really show how much ronnie's voice has changed. "Popular monster" is also awesome.
I think in the case with Daughters, it's impossible to separate the art from the artist when the music is about being a fucked up person when the artist IS a fucked up person. I can still listen to Vektor despite David DiSanto's abusive stuff because Vektor's music isn't about being an abusive person. There's absolutely a place of respect for being genuine in music and "keeping it real" but that tends to only apply when it feels justified and/or relatable and neither of those apply from the POV of an abuser
I was thinking exactly this, if the art is about expressing how horrible the authorial voice is, and then the real artist turns out to be actually horrible, the "separating the art from the artist" discussion makes no sense
I completely agree and i respect your opinion. If you ever change your mind about Vektor then i recommend the bands Vexovoid, Cryptosis, and Euphoria Ω
No
Until there's prosecution it's one person's word against another's though. It's a little different to the Ethan Kath situation as there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to back up her accusations. Either way I still enjoy both of them, unfortunately musicians particularly those extremely creative are usually going to be fucked up in a number of ways
That’s why I can listen to Burzum but not BOTDF even though strictly in terms of the sound of them, I like them both
If I was in 'a dark place' and someone played me that frank zappa song it would actually probably cure my depression, that would Crack me up
27:09 Truthfully, after the revelations revolving around Lex and Lingua, I personally found revisiting SINNER GET READY far more difficult of a listen than any of Daughters’ work revisited. It’s just so discomfortingly apparent just how much of that record was based around Alexis and Kristin’s relationship with him. Bathes the record in a whole new light.
"repent now confess now" is abt an injury she suffered from sexual abuse from alexis that almost paralyzed her. it's so gutwrenching
I literally can’t listen to Sinner Get Ready. It produces such a horrifying emotion in me that I just can’t tolerate
I once met a grown man who liked crunkcore. He was one of the people of all time
The person ever
I also agree I Took A Pill In Ibiza (remix) was a great song and is still a great song. The song would be great based on the excellent drop and production alone but it even has interesting lyrics, especially for a dance track.
Buuut, it also became annoying for the amount it was played on the radio
Once in a while, i'll listen to it. But it's beat heavy that I can't do it everytime
the video for Ibiza makes the song better.
Falling In Reverse genuinely inspire me, bcos their success shows me that you can literally make fucking anything and people will buy it if u put it in front of the right people. You could make the most garbage unlistenable music imaginable and still somehow there's an audience out there somewhere who genuinely enjoys it
Literally any grlwood song, but especially Hard to Touch You or Take off Your Clothes. After knowing what the drummer had to go through it literally gives me chills.
and Nice Guy
The irony of a band that blew up singing about the rampant rape culture and normalization of men treating women horribly having its lead singer secretly sexually abuse the drummer while writing these songs??? It’s incredibly disheartening.
I had a huge realization of what the “Japanese banana” song was when Alvin said “I want a banana”. Pretty sure my bus driver from kindergarten played this song a few times to entertain us. I feel so uncomfortable with having this memory I didn’t even know existed unlocked.
It just sounds like annoying children complaining about no bananas shown in Japan, with the Asian stereotypical beats that label it from Japan
Like its Alvin and the Chipmunks, that's pretty much it
The entirety of YWGWYW seems to be about giving up yourself to your worst demons, which is exactly what Alexis do and that add another layer of dark to that album.
That is sad
@@R-H-B yeah the album was always disturbing in a cool way but after all that stuff came out now it’s disturbing in a gross/sad way
@@iamahorseradish3860 I don’t think anything has to be “disturbing in a cool way” for it’s disturbing themes to be a positive. I feel like some sort of fuckin psychopath god when I listen to YWGWYW regardless of the context behind its horror anyway
@@iamahorseradish3860 I think the reason I connected to the album was only strengthened in a way. With past articles on Alexis and band Im not that surprised at the turnout. It's that sense of black coldness and feeling of deep sickening horror I get from the music and from the personal feelings and experiences it brings to surface again. But that's what people need sometimes, it feels like a shakeup and reevaulation of reality when those feelings strike real and deep. The darkest shit has brought the most reflection and positive change in me to be plain. That is also the appeal for me of some of the underbellies of music like Whitehouse or Bizarre Uproar.
The takeaways from this stuff really, really, hinges on you, this is just how I feel.
For me YWFWYW sounds like trauma, but it’s soothing to me since i’ve lived through so much of it. it’s the first album i’ve saved every song of.
Bro I JUST realized “Blow up like the world trade” wasn’t a 9/11 reference…
@JamieNelsonsPool Actually it was about 1993 basement bombing 🤓
Yeh, the 1993 truck bombing reference.
The most popular local band in my area does a cover of Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me." Problem with that is, they're all 40 something white men, and multiple members do a full on impression of Shaggy the whole time. The song itself hasn't aged poorly, but that cover hits your ears like spoiled milk.
"Like, Scoob, it wasn't me!"
Please tell me I can find this somewhere
The local improv in my town had these guys that used to do a rap verse or 16 near the end of their set. It got really old after the first 3.5 times.
Canadian artist Snow would like a word
Lmao. I just kept repeating NOOOO!! When I heard the song say “Don’t you know that a girl means yes when she says no”. Felt like I was reacting with you. 😂
Brown Sugar is about the juxtaposition of the horrors of slavery and sex trafficking opposed to the personal value he found in a relationship(admittedly mostly sexual).
It's similar in vein to a socially less aware version of "Date Rape". Lots of songs of that period were dark topic hidden behind pop infused happy tunes.
"I've been told you're inferior, but damn you don't seem inferior to me" is a good take on "how come you taste so good".
The Rolling Stones said they aren’t going to play it anymore.
@@dumbbunny9178 yeah, their choice. I'm still gonna listen at full volume when it comes across my radio.
I never listened to the lyrics too much I never realized that
@@Begeru give at listen again and keep the idea in mind "Is he questioning his own racism or extoling racism?" It becomes painfully obvious.
The Pumped Up Kicks effect
Tally Hall's Banana Man is a throw-back to the banana boat song by Henry Belafonte. I didn't think anything more of it when it turned up.
i honestly love the song despite it being really yikes in the world of race politics, it's an inspired song about romanticizing a life of tropical peace and losing your mind in a painful and chaotic western lifestyle.
Did it age well? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no. Was it made with bad intentions? No, not really
The sound was cut out for the "Seventeen Forever" part, and honestly, it actually made it funnier because I had to focus on the look of absolute pain and anguish on Brad's face as he listened.
That "No" song was so bad on so many levels it doesn't even matter if it was well intentioned or that it "was a different time", not a single message or detail in that song is anything less than predatory behavior being spruced up to look cute, about what is a terrible experience most girls will at some point experience with an adult man _including_ the singer. It's meant to make this child seem like a seductress in that interaction. It ends _directly_ telling the adult man character that physically grabbed onto the 14 year old that "No means yes."
Pink Floyd is one of my favourite bands, I absolutely love the majority of their music, but FUCK ME if Terminal Frost isn't just 6 mins of opening music from Public Access VCRs, I can't even have it on in the background when I'm doing stuff.
Sounds like a vapourwave song before it became a vapourwave song
that sudden AJR made me physically ill
that must be against the geneva convention, holy shit
“Do What U Want” was scrapped off of the original releases but the live version with Christian Aguilera is still on streaming.
Apparently RUclips thought "More Songs That Aged Poorly" aged poorly
Boomers: Back in my day, music was actually good.
Music back in their day: *The Dodie Stevens song*
brokencyde walked so 100gecs could run
Seriously thought they were called Brokenbicycle for a while even before I smoked weed.
Modern alt Hip Hop is literally Brokencyde
I thought the same. They were bad from the beginning but in that sense they aged like fine wine.
ive been saying zoomers got right with hyperpop everything that millenials got wrong with crunkcore
@@sonicthehedgegod 100 gecs are millenials, zoomers are just stealing the credit by listening to it and ripping it off
19:48 RIP to that guy who JUST got done saying Banana Man was worse than No while everybody else was reacting to the worst part
The entire self titled album and Blurry face by 21 pilots is just filled to the brim with "I'm 14 and this is deep" actually a lot of 21 pilots feels like that to me. They try so hard to be profound.
Blurryface... I can see that.. Self titled... Tyler was literally 14 when he wrote the songs XD
So they are deep
Okay thank you. I can’t stand anything by them because that’s what it sounds like to me.
Let's not forget about their song about how we shouldn't mourn people who commit suicide and we should celebrate old people instead
@@LoverOfManTits That's not what the song is about
The buzzcocks are actually pretty great. If you've ever seen the incredible movie Shawn of the dead, the credits song is by them. They also made "What do I get" which is also pretty great
Yeah whoever suggested that was a total puritan
One thing I learned about the I Love College song is that for the demo version, Asher Roth used the instrumental version of Say It Ain't So by Weezer, a song about Rivers as a child growing up with an alcoholic step-father and how it negativity impacted his life and then be used on a song about a privileged white boy rapping about how great alcohol is.
Never heard Seventeen Forever but I looked up the lyrics and read about the song on Wikipedia after seeing this video.
Trace Cyrus says it's about "wanting to have a relationship with a girl who's underage so bad and how age limitations don't let you do that." which is mega cringe, but at the time the song was released, he would've only been 18 singing about wanting to be with a 17 year old so...let's just hope his views have changed I guess. Lol
Damn that was a short roller coaster to read . If he was 18, then it was just a really dumb thing to say without thinking of any further implications extending beyond his own situation. Forgivable, but cringe to say lol
Edit: I remember listening to this song as a teen and I never thought the lyrics implied any age gap. I just thought it was about two 17 year olds with heightened hormones about to have sex and how sometimes that can change relationship dynamics if they aren't ready (which makes sense for 17 yr olds); hence saying "a mistake" and "its not right". I also saw it through a sort of purity culture lense where sex outside of marriage, esp for teens, is considered a "mistake/not right", while also slightly subverting it by acknowledging how special and human it is. And the chorus being about how intense and great that type of infatuation feels when you're young and in the midst of it; so wanting to be 17 forever.
He should have never said that bc I think a lot of people never would have thought it was about wanting to date someone under 18 when you're older lmao oops
I can absolutely hear it now
I like my old interpretation better
This is your Empire Strikes Back, Bradley. The masterpiece following the first
once again for the repost, the only daughters song thats aged poorly is "The Reason They Hate Me" or w/e it's called. dropping a song abt how ur haters are unenlightened definitely hits different when you are a genuinely terrible person.
I think the song is about a guy who won't take criticism and just belittles the people who are arguing with him to make him feel better.
also the line “don’t tell me how to do my job” aged badly bc he got fired from a job for sexually harassing ppl
I mean the closing track from Hell Songs is about raping someone. It makes ‘The Reason They Hate Me’ seem pretty mellow.
@@Benesat and the second to last one
@@Benesat whoops i shouldve specified just from "You Dont Get What You Want"
The whole separation of art from artist thing is always difficult, and it's REALLY subjective. Which is what makes it difficult. I think another great example is the classical composer Richard Wagner. For those who don't know, the dude was a pretty virulent antisemite. As a result, in the mid-2000s one of the main orchestras in Israel (idr if it was the Jerusalem Symphony or the Israel Philharmonic) had an internal discussion as to whether they should boycott his works, and not perform them anymore. Ultimately the musicians union advocated for continuing to program the works, because they enjoyed playing them.
I don't know if this discussion has been revisited since then. But I can't help but wonder if they'd come to the same decision nowadays. 2022 is a very different time. On the other hand, they're still playing his stuff - there hasn't been any public backlash forcing them to stop.
Also Wagner influenced like literally everyone in the classical realm going into the turn of the century. You might be able to discard his stuff specifically, but it’s kind of hard to deny the influence he had.
I think where most people have a hard time separating the art from the artist is when the personality of the artist plays a central role in the piece, especially if it’s a huge part of what makes it appealing in the first place. I’m sure that Wagner specifically wasn’t the “protagonist” to his pieces
One way to look at it is, if the artist is dead and you can remove their own personal message from the art, then you can separate them.
Especially since everyone can put their own interpretation of a work into it. Pick Personal Jesus, for example: Depeche Mode wrote that song as a pickup song, where the singer wants to be his girl's "Personal Jesus". Johnny Cash covered it as an earnest Christian Song about how anything can be your own personal Jesus, and Marilyn Manson covered it as a song about how cult leaders manipulate people into doing whatever they want.
Israel? You mean the nation of colonizers?
As a pansexual female I'll gladly be both the non-straight representative and the token female
Brad this is still in my top 20 RUclips videos ever, and as someone terminally online that is a high compliment. Thank you for the reupload of this hood classic.
alice practice hurts to listen to, thinking about how she was being assaulted while recording. this hurts.
womp womp
Honestly I feel like the song that aged the worst off YWGWYW after all the allegations against Alexis Marshall came out was Long Road, No Turns (my favorite song off that album and one of my favorites of all time but I digress) considering his only statement on the matter was "idk why she'd say this our relationship was nothing but loving I'm lawyering up" and the songs themes your personal suffering not mattering because other people will be going through worse shit
Checked the lyrics and holy shit yeah. If you listen to it with the allegations in mind, it’s sinister as hell
"It may please your heart to see some shackled, wrists and throat
Naked as the day they were born
But no one’s going to do that for you
No one will do that for you"
Reading the lyrics it feels like the song is making fun of that idea.
"Everybody climbs up high then falls real far
A little is all it takes"
This is about the futility of success if failure is guaranteed (in death), success only means you'll lose more.
"Well, ain't it funny how it works
Someone's always got it worse
They hit the ground harder than you"
This ties into the idea of climbing high and falling far, but is making fun of the idea that someone else's suffering negates yours. What is the point if they hit the ground harder if you both are dead on the pavement?
"But I won’t know what to say
When you come undone
When you come apart
Remember that the road is long
Remember that the road is dark
Don’t waste your time learning the words to somebody else’s song"
Here, because o the futility of life and suffering, the narrator doesn't know what to say, he feels hopeless and therefore doesn't know what to say to others other than to keep going down the painful, long, dark road, and be themselves. But earlier he states that, "These are just the words to somebody else’s song." so even this advice and struggle is not unique to him, so there is nothing new he he can say to help those who are suffering.
"So don’t play along, or play a part
Don’t look to me under the weight of your shouldered cross"
He is repeating the advice to be yourself, but he warns that suffering is futile, and he has no words, like to "be yourself" or "keep going" or "someone's got it worse than you" to help you, because suffering and life are pointless, and these things don't matter in the end.
The album is more about anger at the world, along with the hopelessness, despair, and fear at your inability to change the world or your life, the existential horror of realizing that the world functions on the suffering of the oppressed for the benefit of the few. It's the existential dread that you only have one life, with seconds ticking away as you read this, and the only options are to brutalize and enslave others to have a good life yourself, or suffer for the benefit of others. The songs are about alienation in the modern world (City Song) how even anger and hate at the world feeds the system (Satan in the Wait), pleading to an unfeeling universe (The Lord's Song), fury at those in charge (The Reason They Hate Me), or is stories within this theme, numbing the pain with drugs or substances (Less Sex), or the dread of realizing that this existence you wasted half your life on is not the one you wanted, reeling in terror as the rosy glasses are ripped off to reveal the terrible truth (Ocean Song).
I've always conceptualized the album as being generally about what I'll call "the existential dread of class consciousness". With self contained stories: The Flammable Man → Ocean Song → Guest House. The only outlier lyrically is the song Daughter, which seems to mostly be about suicide and trauma, par for the course with this album to be honest.
Awesome video brad. Hope your proud of the work you put into this, you deserve to feel proud of yourself!
Some of these are like trying to enjoy the Saw movies after learning they were actually torturing the actors 😂
Tally Hall’s Banana Man didn’t age well, but I doubt they had any ill intention and it came out of a place of ignorance.
Yeah. I believe joe Hailey said it was just about bananas and it was them just being dorks
Yeah, this is I think very much a case of something just *aging* poorly. I very much doubt they had any ill intent with it, but in today's world it sounds like a song that is very much purposefully *going against the grain*.
Definitely agree, as ironically it was the song that got me into them in the first place. Pretty sure they didnt have any bad intentions just it aged wrong compared to the rest of the album. Would still listen to it when going through all of Marvin but just poorly aged
If all you see is race, race is all you'll find. Today's people have massive brain rot and hysterical mania
Man, I listened the hell out of Crystal Castles but Alice Practice was one song I deleted from ITunes so I wouldn’t ever have to listen to it again.
kimya from the moldy peaches wrote a song about 9/11 and she was clearly very emotional over the whole situation, the most popular live performance of it she is basically on the verge of tears the entire time
"We are all white straight men."
Me, a black teen: "Haha, yeahhhhh..."
Was hitting the griddy when alvin said "I want a japanese banana"
Finally, real racial content is back
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I really don’t feel like the piece of shit act turning out to be true makes someone’s art more interesting. its just disturbing, like confession tapes. to find it intriguing is a very much a male and never been SA’d perspective to have
was thinking exactly that during that part
If Ass Like That by Eminem doesn't come up I'll be shocked
Edit: Ass Like That aged way worse than FACK 😭 the lines about Hilary Duff and the Olsen twins....
Been getting into daughters recently, luckily I use Spotify so at most, I gave them $0.001
Its funny that spotify is actually one of the better paying music services.
@@christomanci tidal, I have tidal, but mostly for home use with good headphones. Anything else, Spotify.
Daughters is truly such a massive shame, because You Won't Get What You Want is such a genius, no-skip album. I had always hoped that I could see them live by some crazy miracle, but now I don't think that'll be happening. The worst people always have to ruin the best things. That's just the music industry nowadays, I guess.
They say you shouldn't build relationships over scar tissue but watching your torment when having to listen to Falling in Reverse feels like my love language
Actually, there are bananas grown in Japan (mostly on Okinawa). So, yeah...
The Moldy Peaches one reminds me of the Strokes, they were set to release their first album Is This It, along with the song New York City Cops ("they ain't too sma~art"), in the US on September 25, 2001-- the CD release was delayed until October while they quickly replaced it with a different song.
I actually used The Strokes as my example that I put in his comments 😂
Japanese Banana is sampled by Eminem on "Ass Like That" lol I recognized it immediately because as soon as I heard it I went "the you move it, I can't believe it" lmao
If i passed you the aux and you put falling in reverse on, i'm pulling the E-break
Already watched it
Rewatching it just to see the Brad-doing-the-Brokencyde-scream part again
Shoutout to that guy in the chat saying "I don't think this song aged poorly because it was never good"
When my mom was in college, a white man tried to serenade her with Brown Sugar. His attempt was not successful.
Wearing two condoms at once increases the chances of breakage. Also, "I Love College" was originally supposed to sample "Say it Ain't So" by Weezer but they couldn't clear it.
Blurred Lines was always gross, always made me cringe when it was on the radio as soon as it released barely anyone liked it just due to the implications and controversies 😬
As an indigenous bi trans dude. Yes I am 100% white straight man for brad sure
The Treat You Better guy didn't just say "no one picked up on the nice guy vibes when it was released". That was like, literally the main criticism of the song. What a r/iamverysmart tool
Genuinely kinda surprised that "Run for Your Life" by the Beatles wasn't on here. Lennon, a man known for emotionally abusing his wife and having once struck her, sings about how if he catches his s/o cheating, he'll murder her. It was so incredibly bad that John himself disavowed it just a few years after release.
Hearing some of these songs for the first time (except for the Shawn Mendez one), I gotta agree with Brad here. I admire the sentiment in I Love College and I wish that more artists would promote things like consent and safety. I don't normally like rap, but it's not a bad song.
Also, if I do recall, there are some parts of Japan that do grow bananas. There's even a specific species called the Japanese Banana, or the Musa basjoo. It unfortunately doesn't seem to produce fruit, but it's used for making some really fine cloth. Kinda like linen or bamboo cloth.
I love college is a horrible song
love this video, especially the dodie stevens - no part lmao. so uncomfortable and the surprise in brad's face when she says "yes means no"
24:20 damn I've been an African American woman my entire life but now... nope... today I'm a Caucasian male 😂
Watching B Dizzle will do that to you
@@propername4830 lol I need a proper white guy name but I can't think of any, got any suggestions?
@@m3tr0idgrl Hunter
@@propername4830 I actually have always liked that name... dunno why, it just sounds cool
@@m3tr0idgrl Probably because of Hunter Biden
The Thirsty Thirsty Thursday melody bit is still stuck in my head for all the wrong reasons ;p
Anything by Lostprophets has aged terribly for obvious reasons, but especially the music video for 'A Town Called Hypocrisy.' (Not so much the song, but given what we know now, that video has reeeeaaaally aged poorly).
Man, edgy teen me used to love their music....
I'm fully aware that the lead singer is a creep and a pervert, but "Rooftops" is still pretty catchy
Daughters were my third most played artist last year. I bought YWGWYW on CD. I’ll never not be mad
“The Rolling Stones are much more interesting now that I know they’re racist” 10/10 brad would have loved the Beatles if only Paul McCartney never insisted on unsegregated concerts.
Brokencyde's most recent album came out in 2018 and I don't understand how that was financially viable for them
I'm so glad the video is back. The reaction at 56:26 killed me
I remember my first exposure to Fack was in 8th grade. Us guys played it in the locker room after gym class and laughed hard at how raunchy it was & the gerbil outro. Good times. It hasn't aged well at all though.
It was never good, you just got older.
@@hubblebublumbubwub5215 Oh I know. I think even as middle schoolers we knew it was terrible but the raunchiness of it had us dying.
It's frat boy party rap, raunchy sexual lyrics, and totally garbage once you listen to it sober
I felt every emotion in a single hour