Well, it is time to admit that I love Blink 182.
There, I said it!
I’ve been listening to Blink for 17 years now. Their music has been there watching me get through some good and hard times, achieving goals and failing classes. Generally, growing up. There was a time in my life that I thought I was too avant garde to listen to their music but,at the end of the day that’s just bullshit. If you like something, there is no apparent reason that you shouldn’t do it. Like Dave Grohl once said:
“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk rock guilt, like, “You’re not supposed to like that. That’s not fucking cool.” Don’t fucking think it’s not cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” It is cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic”! Why the fuck not? Fuck you! That’s who I am, goddamn it! That whole guilty pleasure thing is full of fucking shit.”
Anyway, one of the first, huge stories of 2015 has to be the online drama of Tom Delonge quitting (or not) Blink 182. This whole storry made many people feel upet because, let’s face it, Blink 182 were, at some point, one of the biggest bands in the world. A group that influenced thousants of bands around the world! Thinking about this situation, I came to the following conclusions and just wanted to share them with you:
1) With Tom out, the only original Blink 182 member is Mark Hoppus, since Travis is not their original drummer. But, the truth is that it was Tom and ex drummer Scott Raynor that started the band, back in their highschool years and it wasn’t until a couple of months later that Mark joined! They weren’t called Blink yet but anyway!
2) It was clear that Tom wasn’t really “into it” anymore. It hurts to say so but it’s the truth. In most of post 2010 Blink 182, live footage he seems either bored, drunk or out of place. Angel and Airwaves is what he wants to do right now either people like it or not. It’s not a bad thing. Actually, it’s quite honest!
I’ve been listening to Blink for 17 years now. Their music has been there watching me get through some good and hard times, achieving goals and failing classes. Generally, growing up. There was a time in my life that I thought I was too avant garde to listen to their music but,at the end of the day that’s just bullshit. If you like something, there is no apparent reason that you shouldn’t do it. Like Dave Grohl once said:
“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk rock guilt, like, “You’re not supposed to like that. That’s not fucking cool.” Don’t fucking think it’s not cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” It is cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic”! Why the fuck not? Fuck you! That’s who I am, goddamn it! That whole guilty pleasure thing is full of fucking shit.”
Anyway, one of the first, huge stories of 2015 has to be the online drama of Tom Delonge quitting (or not) Blink 182. This whole storry made many people feel upet because, let’s face it, Blink 182 were, at some point, one of the biggest bands in the world. A group that influenced thousants of bands around the world! Thinking about this situation, I came to the following conclusions and just wanted to share them with you:
1) With Tom out, the only original Blink 182 member is Mark Hoppus, since Travis is not their original drummer. But, the truth is that it was Tom and ex drummer Scott Raynor that started the band, back in their highschool years and it wasn’t until a couple of months later that Mark joined! They weren’t called Blink yet but anyway!
2) It was clear that Tom wasn’t really “into it” anymore. It hurts to say so but it’s the truth. In most of post 2010 Blink 182, live footage he seems either bored, drunk or out of place. Angel and Airwaves is what he wants to do right now either people like it or not. It’s not a bad thing. Actually, it’s quite honest!
3) Everyone is excited and eager to see the band perform with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba on guitar and vocals. Not because they don’t like Tom but mostly because it is an interesting combination of musicians and also because he is an amazing singer! Will he be joining the band permanetly? Even they don’t know yet.
4) When they broke up for the first time in 2005, they used the term “indefinite hiatus”. Since then, bands stopped “breaking up” or “calling it a day”, they started going in “indefinite hiatus”
5) It’s not going to be the same again. It has never been the same since their indefinite hiatus in 2005…
…Still love them though!
Written by: Lonely Lou
4) When they broke up for the first time in 2005, they used the term “indefinite hiatus”. Since then, bands stopped “breaking up” or “calling it a day”, they started going in “indefinite hiatus”
5) It’s not going to be the same again. It has never been the same since their indefinite hiatus in 2005…
…Still love them though!
Written by: Lonely Lou