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59 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

Seems she might be better off!  Who needs family like that?

I gotta respect that she still loves and misses her brother and wants for stuff to be cool between them, you know? I want that for her too. Maybe it's not realistic at this point.

 

16 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Time for someone to get over themselves and grow up. Not that it's any of my business.

Indeed. 100%. She basically told him that, and I guess that was the last time they spoke other than to see each other briefly during a family visit in the fall. And yeah... it's not really very much my business either.

Shoulda married into a Juggalo family, I guess.

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23 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Aaahhhh see that's where I went wrong. When I first saw Elm Street it was before Ice Nine Kills was around so instead of liking them I had to like all the music Johnny Deep makes.

I actually went back to listen to the song to respond to this and... it was fine nothing special on the music side of things but in retrospect the song being themed around that movie is the only unique thing about it but yeah I can see where the people on here who don't like so are coming from.

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If you actually listened to any of the above songs you did more than me. I haven't listened to anything they have done since my kid stopped telling me they were the new 'best band ever' several years ago. Thankfully threatening to disown her and kick her out of the family was enough for her to eventually get passed liking Ice Nine Kills.

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7 minutes ago, agamerwholovesmetal said:

I actually went back to listen to the song to respond to this and... it was fine nothing special on the music side of things but in retrospect the song being themed around that movie is the only unique thing about it. But yeah I can see where the people on here who don't like so are coming from.

Seems to me most metalheads of a certain age have a real problem accepting metalcore with the clean overly melodic choruses. It's like nails on a chalkboard to many of us, just intolerable. It's pop music to us, not metal. Which doesn't mean that you shouldn't enjoy it (if you do) just that you should not expect to get a ton of validation from most of us older dudes.

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48 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Seems to me most metalheads of a certain age have a real problem accepting metalcore with the clean overly melodic choruses. It's like nails on a chalkboard to many of us, just intolerable. It's pop music to us, not metal. 

Nail hit on head.

 

Doesn't help the bands tend to be overly formulaic - heavy verse, pop chorus and overproduced.  

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On 12/21/2022 at 10:01 PM, KillaKukumba said:

If you actually listened to any of the above songs you did more than me. I haven't listened to anything they have done since my kid stopped telling me they were the new 'best band ever' several years ago. Thankfully threatening to disown her and kick her out of the family was enough for her to eventually get passed liking Ice Nine Kills.

I guess that she was ok with kicking her out of the family. I wouldn't be surprised, when her dad is gatekeeping elitist 

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