Folks, the world use to be fully of 30 year olds making music for 15 year olds so giant record companies could sell CDs. Then woke happened.
Before black people made it illegal to be white you could rock out.
Clutching a DVD of “Mystery Men” to my chest and gently sobbing, because I don’t want William H. Macy to see what has become of our beautiful country.
Ok that movie slaps though…
You may not like it, but American Pie style college comedy movies are actually where US culture peaked
You’re right, I don’t like it lol
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
I’ve always been saying this
Sum 41, Blink 182, American Pie, Van Wilder, Smash Mouth, Super Troopers, all had basically the same vibe
Probably 100 other things I could add to this list
Back in my day black hole sun would wash away the rain but not anymore because of WOKE
Black hole sun won’t you come?
Tough being a RETVRN guy these days if this is the barrel they’re scraping the bottom of.
Reject Harry Styles RETVRN to the Offspring.
Thinking about it, I kind of unironically believe this.
Even though The Offspring is weirdly reactionary for being a punk band, I still agree with this.
RETVRN to the age of looking like smash mouth
The guitarist wore a hammer and sickle shirt to a live show and it didn’t seem sarcastic
all artists are bourgeois
wha
Well slap some duct tape on my bananna!
This comment feels like a Poes Law situation… surely this is a bit, right?
Ok fine youre right. All western art is bourgeois
So you’re saying alien ant farm is art
Are you not?
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Leftists made it illegal for guys to be dudes
Sargon is the most deranged fascist on youtube. Didn’t he have that tweet about mexican food being low quality, so that’s why they spice it?
CW: shrimp meat
Europeans having bad opinions about cuisine from central and south america always gets me riled up
The whole “Acting repulsed by foreign foods while actively plundering said foreigners for spices” thing the British had going on with India always reminded me of an old Jane’s Addiction song.
One must eat the other who runs free before him
Put them right into his mouth
While fantasizing the beauty of his movements
A sensation not unlike slapping yourself in the face
I’ve read some aggravating shit from racist-ass Indian ppl online saying “we’re using tomatoes, chilis etc. better than they ever did” like…c’mon India endured this shit from the anglos you don’t gotta pay it forward.
Human history is a deeply vexing thing to be in the middle of. It’s frustrating how people who should damn well know better are just as eager to buy into this shit as other americans.
Multiple millenia of civilizations, and what do we have to show for it? A doomed, perpetual battle to keep humanity from gleefully following through on their worst impulses. Almost enough to make me think just scrubbing the entire human project thing might be a good idea because there just plain doesn’t seem to be a way to fix this shit on a permanent basis
These people make millions just making content about how white people are royalty among the rest of humanity, and I have to work to pay taxes to child predators.
Fuck.
In a just world these evil shitheads would’ve been put against the wall a long time ago
food tastes of something, anything at all
What an assault on the senses!!
Not beating the accusations of being English huh
Mexican food is famous the world over for being delicious.
American food is famous for being unhealthy and addictive slop.
British food is famous for being a joke.
Bro is literally british
He once asked someone to send him CSAM so he could use it to own the libs
Mexican food is designated UNESCO world heritage along with only Chinese and French food, its recognized worldwide as culinary excellence.
CW: shrimp meat
i don’t think shrimp allergies can be transmitted through the screen
I got told to put CW for other kinds of meat, why is shrimp any different? 🤷
for meat? strange
(unironically, and while it doesn’t particularly bother me too much to see images of meat, i still appreciate the cws and i’m sure others do as well. this could be for other reasons than too. i don’t want to start an argument with you, but I just want to say that even if you find it strange, it is something that some of us really appreciate and it makes hexbear a better place. thank you.)Sounds good comrade, a cw doesn’t seem all that troublesome, im okay with it
Anglos talking about “poor quality ingredients,” lol
I remember 2001 well, the entire USA was just one giant music video set
I read somewhere that limp bizkit was the best example of how payola creates popularity, elevating bad music, but i read it so, so long ago. I wish i could find it again cuz i bet id understand it a lot more
Limp bizkit and Nickelback during the early 2000s might have been a first step towards leftist politics for me. They just played those two fucking groups and Nirvana and sublime every hour every day. And obviously the music was trash.
But then I learned about clear channel and starting listening to an indie radio station. Made me start hating how capitalism ruined fucking music.
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Alien Ant Farm would be canceled today for being white, just white alone. FOLKS
I never listened to them much except that sick smooth criminal video, I was going to find woke lyrics to quote to show how they were always woke but damn, their lyrics are really not great and basically just whining about relationships from what I have skimmed
I always tough they were posers if they needed a cover for their first hit.
To be fair you can’t really control what people will like. When a song off your album gets popular you either play that shit for the rest of your life and collect your money or you don’t.
Nah, having a cover of your first album is still pretty poser.
The Clash had a cover on their first album (Police & Thieves), and if you count the North American release they had a second one (I Fought The Law).
Alien Ant Farm, Orgy, The Ataris…having a cover as your first hit seems like a surefire way to a dead end career.
the year is 2024 and persons of pallor are barred from making music, music videos, or any type of artform.
This is what the world looked like before mass immigration
How did immigration prevent any of this?
Widespread racial and gendered guilt activism
You tell non-whites and women they are innately evil and I know damn well you salivate over legalizing honor killings every day
Bankers had totally screwed the economy for their own gain.
You voted for that because they thought they’d save you from gay marriage.
People were just allowed to be themselves, and they did fun, wholesome things for their own sake.
You people think this is the most immoral thing one can do.
Brits: The Americans of Europe.
You voted for that because they thought they’d save you from gay marriage.
Let’s face it, “bankers” is probably just an antisemitic dogwhistle.
“If you don’t like bankers, why don’t we just nationalize the banks then?”
“Oh… oh no, I meant (((((((bankers))))))))”
“I see…”
One of the guys is the son of an illegal immigrant, so immigration was really necessary to make this
It’s so funny that this loser is reduced to tweeting about music videos from 20 years ago.
White men like this (pseuds, basically) love to eulogise something that they think is neat.
You… can just say “I think Alien Ant Farm’s cover of Smooth Criminal is pretty neat!” and that’s it. You don’t need to provide some big philosophical or historical justification for why you like something, and if you’re doing this often then it speaks to a pretty deep-seated insecurity.
This tweet has big “old man yells at cloud” energy.
I like the idea that retvrning to tradition means listening to more Simple Plan or giving Carson Daly another show
Oh you mean the people who covered a Black man’s song as a tribute to that said Black man? A
AF Black man?Akkad are you ok? Are you ok Akkad?
a music video from a time, and a place, made by a situated people with particular characteristics.
Oh boy. Someone let Akkad know his bois are woke AF too
… 2003 LOS ANGELES — A rock band crashes the Justin and Christina tour, a gay pride parade and the BET Awards to play their new single? It might sound like an episode of “Jackass” or “PUNK’D,” but it’s not. It’s the setup for Alien Ant Farm’s next video.… On Sunday, the band dressed the truck as a giant ant — complete with mandibles, antennae and legs — and entered it as a float in West Hollywood’s Gay Pride Parade.
“We thought it would be funny to just go down the parade on a float, appreciating diversity and jamming on our instruments,” Corso said. “And it was a really long parade, too. We did multiple takes of the song going down Santa Monica Boulevard.”
And how did the crowd react? "It was wonderful! We didn’t ‘belong’ there, but it was cool. There were a couple of like ‘Blue Oyster Bar’-type biker boys on the side of the street, in full garb, like a couple of Rob Halfords. [They] threw me metal horns.
“The most negative response we got all day was [from] the [anti-gay] fanatics,” he continued. “All those ignorant bastards were corralled in [one area] with megaphones, placards, everything. When we went by, we stopped playing and started gesturing at these people, if you know what I mean. They were gesturing back at us, and they were yelling. And all the people attending the parade were cheering for us.”
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2001
before “mass immigration”
When you understand the passage of time.
There’s no way this is an actual response of his to this clip. This has to be edited. I simply can’t believe it.
Uh but anyway the AAF version of this song is okay but I felt like it was overrated and overplayed at the time.
Well observed! If you care to be more specific about it, it’s a music video from a time, and a place, made by a situated people with particular characteristics. It isn’t some unsituated thing that occupies a nowhere in notime by a universal human
Lmao
what in the fuck does this even mean
like obviously it’s because they’re suburban white guys or something, but ostensibly is he begging for more videos filmed in someone’s suburban backyard or what
incredible
It’s not a particularly memorable cover but it really completes my 13yo self’s favorite scene in a movie, Jason Biggs with the glue in American Pie 2…
Sure, whatever, I guess.
The past he wants to RETVRN to never really existed so 2003 is as good a time as any for him to wax poetic about.
Carl Benjamin peaked when he called a press conference and then threw a fit when the press turned up to it and asked questions. Smartest right winger.
Wait he did that? Lmao what a dweeb
Yeah, it was during his 2019 run for UKIP MEP.
OK, there's a fair bit of backstory to this. CW: mentions of SA
Some time before he joined UKIP he made comments about whether or not he’d rape labour MP Jess Philips. Backlash about it caused him to double down and discuss it further (and encourage his followers to her harass her over it).
During the 2019 European Parliament elections (Theresa May was trying to put off Brexit for as long as possible so in 2019 the UK was still had to elect MEPs) the UKIP leader at the time decided that his failing party could claw back relevance by fielding far-right social media personalities as candidates. He asked a whole bunch of them and Carl Benjamin, Paul Joseph Watson, and the Nazi pug guy all agreed to stand.
Mainstream media caught wind of the rape comments and after an interview about them on the BBC involved him passionately defending his right to appraise women on whether or not he’d rape them, Carl Benjamin became the low hanging fruit for media ridicule for the election. Worsened because Carl would double down on it every time he was asked, refusing to budge an inch in his stalwart defence of his own deep-seated misogyny.
Carl’s views on rape spread to becoming the main thing any journalist would ask any UKIP member in interviews at the time, and it was causing conflict within the party and losing them support in the polls.
Desperate to escape this controversy, a press conference was held with Carl, PJW, and Nazi pug guy all present to answer questions.
Except Carl didn’t want to answer any questions, especially not the one you can obviously see coming by now.
He fumed at the journalists present for coming here and questioning him, at first for asking about what he viewed as irrelevant subjects, but soon all questions were off the table. All the while PJW looked on in confusion and Nazi pug guy looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there.
Carl called off the press conference early, red in the face.
