every MLG highlight reel
the secret side of me
I never let you see I keep it caged, but I can’t control it So stay away from me The beast is ugly I feel the rage, and I just can’t hold it It’s scratching on the walls In the closet, in the halls It comes awake, and I can’t control it Hiding under the bed In my body, in my head Why won’t somebody come and save me from this? Make it end!
God so much of it was dogshit. The fashions were all awful - and that’s even comparing them to like 90s fashions. Music was terrible, too. Max Martin was everywhere, and I fucking hate his songwriting, and even in the spaces where he wasn’t you had, what, the garbage pop punk everywhere? It was also when studios really got a handle on how to commodify rap music into pop songs and there was just garbage R&B everywhere.
Movies and TV shows had some bright spots - A lot of Adult Swim content still holds up, and I remember the Judd Apatow deluge pretty fondly though I’d be hesitant to revisit it now. And Shaun of the Dead, ofc.
don’t forget the “joy” of nu-metal.
Nu-metal was better than the buttrock like Creed. Wasn’t great, though - Slipknot and Disturbed were okay. But its oversaturation did lead to the rise of metalcore, which is good, though at this point we’re getting back into subculture stuff so I dunno if that’s really under the umbrella of the discussion we’re having.
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Fair, i guess I was thinking more of the early 2000s