I love the jabs at Straight Edge used as a religion/cult like thing especially then in the late 90's/early 2000's, and also the jabs at what the mainstream perceived as "heavy music". After Nirvana died, The Offspring and Bad Religion are almost the only bands that were allowed to have political lyrics, and then the first major label release by the offspring "Ixnay" is pretty good, but since its first single was All I Want...they later decided to make 3/4 of a real Offspring album and have those obvious deviations as singles in all their following releases from...
I love the jabs at Straight Edge used as a religion/cult like thing especially then in the late 90's/early 2000's, and also the jabs at what the mainstream perceived as "heavy music". After Nirvana died, The Offspring and Bad Religion are almost the only bands that were allowed to have political lyrics, and then the first major label release by the offspring "Ixnay" is pretty good, but since its first single was All I Want...they later decided to make 3/4 of a real Offspring album and have those obvious deviations as singles in all their following releases from 98 and on. Although Hammerhead was the opposite, the album it's on is totally tame other than for that single and a couple other songs, sounds nothing like the anger and nihilism displayed on Smash.
So yeah, fed on Korn, Eminems and Bizkits. The bands and rappers themselves were Weird Al Yankovic parodies, although Eminem was kinda legit in his thing in the first few things he did, what wins unfortunately is what Chris sing-lists at the end....
"i'd rather hilite trip-tiks than listen to your bullshit"
the motor league is a place where the singer, chris, used to work, where he would hilite trip-tiks and shit.
@jerrylives Yep.
@jerrylives Yep.
I love the jabs at Straight Edge used as a religion/cult like thing especially then in the late 90's/early 2000's, and also the jabs at what the mainstream perceived as "heavy music". After Nirvana died, The Offspring and Bad Religion are almost the only bands that were allowed to have political lyrics, and then the first major label release by the offspring "Ixnay" is pretty good, but since its first single was All I Want...they later decided to make 3/4 of a real Offspring album and have those obvious deviations as singles in all their following releases from...
I love the jabs at Straight Edge used as a religion/cult like thing especially then in the late 90's/early 2000's, and also the jabs at what the mainstream perceived as "heavy music". After Nirvana died, The Offspring and Bad Religion are almost the only bands that were allowed to have political lyrics, and then the first major label release by the offspring "Ixnay" is pretty good, but since its first single was All I Want...they later decided to make 3/4 of a real Offspring album and have those obvious deviations as singles in all their following releases from 98 and on. Although Hammerhead was the opposite, the album it's on is totally tame other than for that single and a couple other songs, sounds nothing like the anger and nihilism displayed on Smash.
So yeah, fed on Korn, Eminems and Bizkits. The bands and rappers themselves were Weird Al Yankovic parodies, although Eminem was kinda legit in his thing in the first few things he did, what wins unfortunately is what Chris sing-lists at the end....