I knew girls like this. I was friends with girls like this. I was almost girls like this. I wonder how they’re doing these days.

  • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    26•3 months ago

    To discuss: was My Chemical Romance unfairly dunked on during their fame? Was their music actually pretty good when you ignored the memes?

      • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        8•3 months ago

        In in my 40s and I can say that their music was pretty great. Their lyrics were super cringey, but ignoring lyrics is what pop music is about.

        • @Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
          3•3 months ago

          Danger Days was their best album, and easily one of the greatest rock albums of all time.

          Like, that’s not even a fucking debate. Sing, Planetary, Na Na Na, Summertime, DESTROYA, Vampire Money, Save Yourself I’ll Hold Them Back, Kids From Yesterday, S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W… That album is banger after banger after banger.

    • @Rolando@lemmy.world
      9•3 months ago

      I’m an older guy, so when I listened to Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge I heard a lot of Queen and Iron Maiden in it. I thought it was great, some of their songs are top tier. But I can see how if you were in high school at the time and didn’t embrace their style, you might not like it. I mean, even Queen and Iron Maiden had their detractors back in the day…

    • molave
      3•3 months ago

      Nope. I particularly liked Welcome to the Black Parade and Famous Last Words

      • @EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        12•3 months ago

        Basically, it’s a reaction to people on social media calling anybody showing any amount of enjoyment from something “cringe.”

        Cringe is dead, let people enjoy things, embrace the cringe, etc.

        I think I’ve seen it largely in Millennials who have reached a point where they just don’t care what the current trend is or what people think of them. They’re at the point where they’re just like, “I’m in my 30s/40s, fuck it. I’m gonna blast Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance like it’s the early 2000s and enjoy the things I like because I can’t be bothered to care what people think.”

        • JJROKCZ
          11•3 months ago

          Just learned this group exists and I’m in it lol

          I’m in my 30s, I’m a full grown man with a great wife and good job, I’ll listen to whatever music I like

          • Logi
            7•3 months ago

            Is it viewed as Abad thing to be in that group?

            Who cares!

            Sounds delightful

            Amen!

  • @Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
    8•3 months ago

    Good for them. My neice just picked up a copy of Welcome to The Black Parade on vinyl. I’ll be getting her Danger Days for her birthday.

    And I say this as someone who used to hate MCR when I was younger. Then I got older and learned to stop reflexively sneering at things I perceived as mainstream, and realized I’d been missing out on one of the greatest bands of all time.

  • @ItsAFakeEnglish
    6•3 months ago

    I love Chris Jericho, like he’s in my top 5 all time favourite wrestlers, but this gimmick, this one was stupid AF, that was a hard time to take him seriously.

    • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      7•3 months ago

      He used to be my favorite. Now he’s just pathetic. He’s so garbage in the ring and a cringe old man out of it, these days. Not to mention he’s a Maga moron who donated like $50k to Trump, and his wife was at the insurrection.

    • @Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      2•3 months ago

      To be fair, the gimmick was supposed to be stupid. Like, it’s very obviously a bit.

      And I really, really want to love Jericho, especially after his early AEW stuff (Le Champion was peak wrestling), but between the Trump mania and the stuff with Kylie Rae I just can’t stomach seeing him on screen any more.