Brokencyde's New Music Video Makes Me Want To Die (Of Old Age, Apparently)
Up until now, I have never actually experienced the trite but (it turns out) real generational gap between young people and old people when it comes to music, where the old person genuinely just "doesn't get it." Oh, do not get me wrong, I think that the music that young people listen to is garbage! I pine for the days when your mother and I would do the Lindy Hop to Benny Goodman's clarinet, down at the Knights of Columbus hall. But up until today, I have always understood how people could like music that did not appeal to me. Sure. Boy bands? OK, whatever. Norwegian death metal? Yes, sometimes. Top 40 country? Even racists have to listen to music.
But this week Brokencyde have released a new video for their song "Booty Call," and for the first time in my life I honestly feel like a grandfather whose hips ache when a storm's approaching. This literally sounds like noise to me, in a way that noise bands never did. Wolf Eyes are like celestial angels in comparison. If I was driving you to the mall and this came on the radio station you had selected, I would make you turn off your "so-called music" and put on NPR, or maybe silence. I would tell you stories about how hard it was for me to get to school, and how when I was your age we listened to REAL music, like Pulp, and Magnetic Fields side projects.
Seriously, only follow the jump if you hate yourself.
I'm sorry, I'm all out of Werther's butterscotch. I shoved them in my ears and died.
Previously: This Is Your Music Video: Brokencyde "Freaxxx"
Posted by Gabe at 10:00 AM in Music Related Content
Tags: Aging | Brokencyde | E-40 | Teenagers
so this is autotune, screamo, pop-rock, west coast hip hop - because that's what i gleaned from this.
also, is it still ok to reference myspace photos in real life? if what's taking place in this video can be considered real life...
Score = 20
I'm pretty sure Myspace is the new booty call.
Score = -1
You folks didn't realize how good you had it at the Black Eyed Peas' party. That'll teach you to complain about being groped by will.i.am!
Score = 44
I didn't like this back in 2000 when this was called Crazy Town and I still don't.
Score = 65
they werent out in 2000.. uhm. stupid?
Score = 0
Thank you sir, may I have another!
Score = 8
This seriously feels like 'future music' - you know, when your protagonist travels to the far future and is shocked and appalled by the hideous taste and bizarre customs of Future America.
That, or this is actually a hilarious deleted scene from Idiocracy.
Score = 42
Let me second that thought about this being the first time I cant understand what other people like about a type of music. Look, I realize every generation thinks their music is better than everything that comes after. And I also realize that at 27, I’m right in the middle of a generation that liked things like Limp Bizkit and Korn when they were in high school. However…while I was never a fan of the whole nu-metal thing, it’s not like I didn’t get it. As shitty as a song like Nookie is, it’s perfectly understandable why a certain fratty crowd loved it. It was very representative of the people who are into that sort of thing. But Brokencyde….who exactly does this represent? This is like a bad parody of douchebags. No one really acts like this, do they? Do they?
Score = 33
The same frat boys who liked Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park and shit like this stuff too. It's just that those frat boys now also listen to "rap music," hence the inclusion of "rap music" tropes.
Score = 5
Jerk face, listen up. I like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit. I also like Bat for Lashes and Black Moth Super Rainbow. Ever heard of being open-minded?
This band sucks though.
Score = -31
I was attacking YOU PERSONALLY in that comment. You. Personally.
Score = 26
At the 1:30 mark- a gi-normous poster of Dr. Paul from 'In Treatment' staring down at a car full of pig suited morons and girls in bras, bounding out of the car towards some good ole fashion afternoon hedonism.
I give the director credit without giving him credit.
Score = 7
Brought to you by Fueled By Ramen's "Fueled By Purple Drank and Meth" division.
Score = 33
P.S.- the 'single of the moment' (according to People) is Birthday Sex by Jeremih. " Don't need candles and cake/just need your body tonight"- pure subtlety like a rusty plank with nails to my brain
Score = 7
Ok, I'm going to attempt to explain this. Their image is pretty appealing to scene kids. They've taken all the worst crap that scenesters listen to, tossed it in a blender and came out with the perfect storm of awful. Screamo so that they feel hardxcore? Check. Autotune for fun times dance parties? Check. hip-hop or whatever you wanna call it so that they can ironically pretend to be gangster? CHECK. They've upped the ante.
Score = 35
Douchecore RULLLZZZZ
Score = 20
"You're in a band? What instrument do you play?"
"I scream."
"Oh."
Score = 70
I think it's called "Deep Growls"
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I don't think anyone could have predicted that this group would have attracted the attention of a Legitimate Musician.
I mean, Freaxxx was filmed in, what, the back of a van? Filling handles of rum with apple juice and spilling it on the driveway? How does someone actually signed to a record label watch that and say, "oh man, some bright young talent here. i'm gonna help them out by contributing a guest verse."
Score = 9
I didn't realize, just how much I hated myself, until I followed the jump... I think I'll incorporate more hugs and highfives into my life, so that I never feel the need to watch a video like that ever again.
Also, The album is called - Im Not A Fan But The Kids Like It - Oddly self aware...
Score = 15
I'm proud I made it 52 seconds in.
Score = 3
I made it exactly 1:16. And it's the freezeframe where we see E-40 with the good angel on his shoulder desperately trying to talk him out of what he's about to do.
Score = 4
What upsets me is the five-star Youtube rating.
Score = 20
So i curiously jumped to their wikipedia page and found this gem
Se7en (scream vocals, rap vocals)
Mikl (clean vocals, autotune vocals)
Phat J (synths, backup vocals, backup screams and growls)
Antz (fog machine and lights)
'tis a sad and scary world we live in folks, and btw if you look at this criticism section on their wiki it is pretty fucking hilarious
Score = 19
Antz is my boyfriend
Also how would one pronounce the name of the screaming fella? "Sesevenen?"
Score = 24
Lots Of Love
Score = 4
i bet Antz studied fog machine and lights at Juliard.
Score = 17
Not that I'm a poet laureate or anything, but party, naughty, and sloppy is a horrible rhyme. Otherwise, great song (not a great song otherwise).
Score = 14
so i found this gem on their wiki
Se7en (scream vocals, rap vocals)
Mikl (clean vocals, autotune vocals)
Phat J (synths, backup vocals, backup screams and growls)
Antz (fog machine and lights)
turns out its a band full of screaming morons and a dude who knows how to work a fog machine
Score = 1
This video makes me vehemently angry and fills my body with white hot searing rage. I'm 21 and I am firmly on the side of good taste and decency in this culture canyon.
Score = 15
This ridiculous screamo-crunk nightmare requires a champion amount of irony to appreciate. This is like post-irony, like the band decided to be really serious about making something stupid but look serious doing it, so other hipsters could ironically love it and hate it at the same time. It's almost zen-like in its calculated scenish vapidness. Only the most dedicated, willfully assheaded hipster would listen to this. I am sad that they have jobs.
Score = 20
It's OKAY, everyone. It's going to be fine. Look at it this way. The existence of this band is empirical proof that art can be objectively bad. The video and it's Youtube rating are proof that some people have no aesthetic intelligence. That's all.
Score = 10
E-40 will rap on aaaaaaaaaanythiiiiiing. Sad. Seriously though, being a fifty-seven year old substitute teacher, I've had the
uniquehorrible experience of hearing a lot of brokencyde and this song is not as face shootingly terrible as some of the other songs that I've heard. It's still really really really bad though.Score = 5
music by committee. never a good idea.
Score = 3
douchetards are timeless.
Score = 3
You can tell any song is awful if it references Myspace.
Now get off my lawn, Brokencyde.
Score = 15
i swear to god.
about 20 seconds into the song, my cats literally started hissing and fighting.
i am not fucking kidding.
Score = 15
The first few entries on their Urban Dictionary page are pretty great. After that it devolves into "BROKENCYDE ARE THE BEST! THE SCREAMS AND BEATS ARE KICK ASS!"
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One of the many UD apologizers: "Low lifes need to stop picking on them because it is a waste of time. They are a great band to me and many other people. Whether you like it or not, I am sure you would not want people picking on you. Be happy we even have music. If this was the only type of music alive, then you would have to deal with it."
True, I would not want people picking on me for the horrible, horrible music I made, just as any human being does not want to be picked on for what they do (even if it is sogoddamnbadugh). And sure, I am very happy we live in a society in which freedom of artistic expression is encouraged and that we do not have to live in fear of being persecuted for listening to any music. But I do have to disagree with the last sentence. If Brokencyde was the only type of music alive, I would not have to deal with it.
Because I would have killed myself long ago.
Score = 10
I don't understand what's to get here? It's bad music that combines several musical trends from over the past 10-15 years: auto tune, repetitive synth beats, screamy alt-metal shit, talking about non-monogamous emotionless sex, booty clapping, etc....
I mean if you're old for not liking this shit then I've been old since I was in middle school.
Score = 6
If "shake it like some chocolate milk" becomes the new "shake it like a polaroid picture" I'm done.
I'm not going to relisten to the last video because it'll only make my ears bleed more, but I think the songs have the exact same lyrics with different beats?
Score = 2
Good God, what horrible music. In 2019, I will be playing this track at parties between "Dancing Queen" and Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison."
Score = 4
If somebody tried to wake me up like that, they would not live to write a "song" about it.
Score = 6
why the screamo? it doesn't fit at all. also these kids look 12, go back to school.
Score = 6
WOLF EYES REFERENCE FTW!!!!! In my dreams, I will wake up on Monday and this will be LightningBoltGum.com
Score = 2
in my nightmares! they are both terrible bands and I don't understand the appeal of noise bands. but I would rather Wolf Eyes AND Lightning Bolt serenade me to sleep at the same time every night than listen to these jokers ever again.
Score = 3
Look, say what you will, but Brokencyde has brought something to pop music that has long been missing:
Really nasally motherfuckers.
Score = 2
If you watch it with the sound muted it kinda seems like (a bad) 28 Days Later crossed with an Offspring video, but then it all goes to hell when they toss the keys to the big Hispanic dude, because they have minority friends, because street cred, but also their minority friend just chauffeurs them around because that's what they pay him for.
Score = 8
How old are you?
Score = -8
i thought their first video was just really talentless kids messing around with their dad's camcorder.. does this second one mean they are a "legitimate" muzikal act?
*shudders*
Score = 2
Hyde from That 70s Show, is that you?
Score = 1
could it be that the non-threatening vaguely asian kid is hoobastank's son? i'm going to believe so.
Score = 3
Someone needs to start a national campaign to save E-40!!! What kind of desperate times has he encountered to find himself in this mess? He needs our help!!!! *hyphy-signal*
Score = 5
@ 1:08: so this is how those white-only proms in Mississippi handle the whole "what if the booked dj is black?" conundrum?
Score = 3
Brokencyde in a few years:
http://www.dreamindemon.com/2009/06/03/john-hock-is-an-entertainer/
Score = 1
Is chocolate milk even meant to be shaken? It's not Orangina, Se7en. Get your facts straight.
Score = 2
This band is so disgusting and they need to go away. They are so aggressive to all of the women, who are obliviously nothing but objects to them. Their music sucks but more than that I really loathe the entire aesthetic of these predators.
Score = 2
this is the kind of awful space-age shit i thought existed only in germany.
Score = -1
brokeNCYDE is amazing and hey retard, its prnounced just, 7 and his name is steven. its a good nickname unlike yours, "retard" :]
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brokeNCYDE is amazing and hey retard, its prnounced just, 7 and his name is steven. its a good nickname unlike yours, "retard" :]
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i personally love this band.. and its not just screamo.. its called crunkcore.. its screamo, crunk, and electronica..
ya sure their music is degrading to woman,, but i like it..its catchy.. u can have ur opinion on "good" music.. and say that this music is appaling and not worth listening to but we think the same things about ur back in tha day music. and if their ssoo bad than why are they doing ssoo good.
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i personally love this band.. and its not just screamo.. its called crunkcore.. its screamo, crunk, and electronica..
ya sure their music is degrading to woman,, but i like it..its catchy.. u can have ur opinion on "good" music.. and say that this music is appaling and not worth listening to but we think the same things about ur back in tha day music. and if their ssoo bad than why are they doing ssoo good.
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i personally love this band.. and its not just screamo.. its called crunkcore.. its screamo, crunk, and electronica..
ya sure their music is degrading to woman,, but i like it..its catchy.. u can have ur opinion on "good" music.. and say that this music is appaling and not worth listening to but we think the same things about ur back in tha day music. and if their ssoo bad than why are they doing ssoo good.
Score = 0
brokeNCYDE will never die!!
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So, I guess she has the 'clap clap clap'. Not sure why they want to get that.
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i love brokencyde, glad to know yall do too
*brokeNCYDE will never die*
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you ppl are just a bunch of idiots , i follow brokencyde everywhere you dont know them like i do and they are better than you low lifes who cut em down, they are making a living arent they? your just on your computers doing nothing good with your lifes.
i scream too got a prob? you guys prob know nothing, screaming takes talent and iq, you can strain your voice and kill your voicebox if you do it wrong and just "scream" you ppl dont know shit i think brokencyde is the best band alive today and they even invented their own music so id stfu all you gay haters on this band! no one cares what you have to say about us "scene" ppl......... its ppl like you that help us cause a scene we know whats good and better you ppl are just average and another peice of shit on this earth, so you can all just stay in your house with your grandmother til your 45 or dead, or try to do something great like inventing new music with your lifes! PEACE! NOAH KRYNOCK (myspace.com/irish_skate_punk)
oh ya plz msg me on myspace i wanna hear what you fags g2 say! (:
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ya i dont understand why so many people are against it, if you dont like the music, dont fuckin listen to it. its not like any one forces you to listen to it, and if there so bad then why are they doing so well. people seem to have nothing better to do than degrade the music they put out. my personal thought is that people degrade them because they came up with a simple idea that many kids love and now make a better living doing what they love then some of you people working your ass off. bC:13 4 life. brokencyde will never DiE
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