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I redownloaded Tumblr and changed my password to log in because I didn’t know where else to talk about this utter nonsense. This is the stuff that gives me energy to put in effort online?? Yeesh. This TikTok is about Ronnie Radke on a profile titled “The Emo Chronicles”. There’s a lot I feel like I wanna talk about. First, I’m done trying to separate “Emo” from Pop Punk & Post-Hardcore that became incredibly popular for a blip of time in the mid-to-late 2000’s. It *is* completely separate, but how can I care at this point. Ronnie Radke and “Emo” are being used when talking about the same thing. OK, great, time to move on, it’s been 15 years. The video begins referencing a recent TikTok from Radke himself where he talks over a dumb meme of Shrek looking like a “Scene” girl from aforementioned time period. The Emo Chronicles video goes on to… talk about how Radke is… an OK guy? Or it seems like that’s the thought the video ends on. I feel like it goes back and forth more than 3 times. For being a video seemingly supporting Radke, there is 0 reference made to his fat-shaming TikTok beyond showing it at the start of the video. I’m the most confused and we’re less than 10 seconds in. FOX News reports have more clarity. Anyway, the EmoTok skims his controversial history in music, which, in the end, doesn’t seem to matter too much because he’s got a song that’s “the number 1 song on Hard Rock charts”. You know, all the charts. All of them! It’s cool that Alternative Rock of the time is having a big resurgence in popularity, but the “charts” have literally always reflected the Post-Hardcore (which itself is varying degrees of Metalcore now) poorly and are not the barometer you should be using when focusing on any particular singer who also screams in his music. Are we just going to forget how he very literally injured fans at a festival that took place at Six Flags? Multiple instances of spitting on & taunting fans too? How he showed up to a fight straight out of middle school, a fight where a person got killed? You know, the kind of fight that’s organized by a bully yelling, “You. Me. The parking lot after school. You’re dead!” And he was 22, arguably an age where you should’ve known better than to bring a ragtag team of friends to a *fight*. You aren’t boxers; what the Hell were you even thinking? Then he was replaced in Escape The Fate, and then, after he went to prison, started another band that was worse and tried to be funny too. It was just a lot of wow, you know? Anyway, I don’t need nor want to hear about Ronnie Radke when I’m approaching 35. The music of I See Stars and Attack Attack! is more pleasant & listener-friendly than Falling In Black Veils Sevenfold. Sorry, that was a cheap shot. But what else do you expect from an Alt fan who outgrew this nonsense when he was 23? Music isn’t and shouldn’t be an excuse to treat anyone any way you want, let alone kids who already feel alone & out of place. Attack Attack!’s new EP is actually pretty rad. That’s not an ending to this but I’m tired & I can barely think of anything beyond how very silly the “point” of this TikTok is. There are good dudes & dudettes in Alternative music who deserve your time. And, if you feel a need to defend a certain singer after reading this, just… don’t. Go listen to whatever music you want & be content that you won’t change my mind.

#music #pop punk #emo #post hardcore #tiktok #Radke #absolute bullshit