I have been Accused of hating all new music, and I do see a point. When a close friend mentioned that none of the bands I listen to are less than 10 years old, I had to accept that this was more or less true.
And while this is a great source of Distress for my inner punk rock kid, times like this, O my brothers, reaffirm this predilection in musical taste.
To Wit: I have been Given a CD by a Female
This has Never gone well.
Along with such Bull Shit as full albums from Bowling for Soup and Lostprophets, I now add "The Drug in Me is You" by Falling in Reverse.
For those too lazy to read the entire thing, your takeaway here is "you can't autotune the Suck from an album"
The lead singer spends much of the album assuring us that he is, in fact, good at singing, as well as music in general, despite no evidence given to bolster that assertion. The lyrics were obviously stolen from the Lisa Frank notebook of a mildly retarded fan of screamo, whom at least had the good Goddamned sense not to record any of the 'songs' due to a massive lack of fucking talent.
I will grant that several songs are relatively entertaining (Raised by Wolves, The Drug in Me is You) , but the surrounding wall of awful that is the rest of the album makes listening to them comparable to bobbing for horse apples in a latrine.
"I'm not a Vampire" is the song I imagine Edward from Twilight writing in his spare time. If this is "Post Punk", punk is indeed dead, and these fuckers killed it. I must now go listen to TSOL and pour one out for my homies.
