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Music elitists, mania, FOB fandom in general
Category: Blogging
Current mood:
 bummed
Y'all
as a person that deeply loves Fall Out Boy and practically kisses wherever they walk (metaphorically of course), I am pissed off. I know I'm not very relevant or whatever but like let me talk about this for a few minutes. I'd like to cover a few topics: what's a fake fan, respect in the fandom, posers, music elitists and well of course all of these are related to the new sound and ultimately: M a n i a.
WHAT'S A FAKE FAN:
I've been a fan of FOB for roughly two years, so I can't say I'm like, an encyclopedia of knowledge on this topic, but... I've seen a bunch of people call each other fake fans, and my opinion on that is that's a dumb thing to call someone else.
very elaborated I know
wait, let me explain:
How can you be a fake fan of something? Is that even possible? If you genuinely like something an artist does/did, you're a fan, if you don't, you're not a fan, if you pretend to like them to be cool, you're a poser. It's about as easy as that.
Just because someone likes Take This To Your Grave and not Mania doesn't makes them a fake fan.
You don't need to worship every single thing someone does to like them.
like, a very select amount of people can even stand the sound of Evening Out With Your Ex-Girlfriend or Arma Angelus (I personally like arma's stuff but yknow). The people who can't stand can still be like, the ultimate FOB stan.
Please stop attacking people because they don't like the new sound and you do, it's annoying and completely useless and it makes the fandom toxic and divides it. vice versa.
MUSIC ELITIST:
As Patrick Stump has said, " Music is a thing people really define themselves with."
Okay, what does that mean (in my h u m b l e opinion) If you're a punk, you listen to like, Black Flag, Misfits or well, yknow, punk bands. If you're a metalhead you listen to like, metal music. If you're a loser like me, I MEAN, an emo, you listen to like, emo bands. Alright you get the logic.
NOW, some people think that because they listen to Kvlt music, black metal and death, they're like, better persons? Edgier? Closer to the devil? I dunno man..
Isn't it
annoying
when these people go on like, youtube videos of BVB or whatever and they're like " tHIS ISN'T rEAl mETal!!!!!!! the only REAL metalheads LIsten to mayhem ALL DAY EVERY DAY and sacrifice baby goats to satan!!!111" (please don't get offended, this is for humor purposes) (don't curse me, kvlt kids, ur cool)
yeah? I agree with you, it's annoying.
Well it's also annoying when emo kids (unironically) trash pop music or well, whatever genre just because they dislike it. Listen,
Live And Let Live
OH, also, you're allowed to like Britney Spears and listen to Arch Enemy like, you don't need to limit yourself to one genre, you're not better for it, just more ignorant.
expand your horizons
also @ tttyg fans, give mania a chance, just try it.
alright, much love fellow emos
just listen to any music you like the sound of
even if its lyrics are dumb even if the rythm is sloppy even if it's pop even if it's Blood On The Dancefloor
let's just be nice to each other n respect people's personnal tastes
p.s: I don't support people that trash on fob for doing new stuff and harrass them to turn back to the old sound, they're doing what they love, let them. ur not groovy
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