Some of us can only learn the hard way. Unlike smart people, who avoid doing things that are obviously painful and foolish, stupid people like me refuse to listen to anyone else, pay attention to warning signs, or think before we act. Even though we know better, we jump headfirst into anything stupid and self-destructive, because hey why not??! Which brings me to my regretcore phase, which was a blur of drugs, alcohol, and banging anything I could get my hands on.
I listened to this song a lot when I was at my peak of self-destructive foolishness because the lyrics resonated with me for obvious reasons. I can’t lie, getting fucked up and having sex with strangers is really fucking fun, but at the same time you have those moments where you look in the mirror and go “I just did a line in the bathroom at school and I’m about to fuck some 19 year-old I met 20 minutes ago… what the fuck am I doing?! Oh well, fuck it, I’m in!!” It’s almost like you can feel your soul getting corroded in real time! I kind of can’t believe I made it out alive with no criminal record, STDs, or rehab.
Anyway, I felt like this band was getting a pretty good amount of hype back in 2007/2008, like maybe they would be the next FTSK, All Time Low, or even just the next Cute Is What We Aim For, but as far as I can tell they just disappeared? To be fair, I don’t think their other songs are nearly as good as this one, but it’s still weird how they seemed to just fall off the face of the earth. Oh well, at least there’s this track!
What happened to this band? Does this song remind you of how good it feels to do stupid, self-destructive shit? Did you have a pop-punk regretcore phase??
they just put out an ep on everyone’s favorite tr00 hardcore/tr00 emo revival label, topshelf records
http://topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/things-are-really-weird-right-now
“It’s almost like you can feel your soul getting corroded in real time!” <-so true!
I cant wait for my regretcore phase. It will hit hard with all the “deep emotional scarring” I have had. lol
The singer supposedly got drunk all the time and stole money from other band members to continue drinking… Supposedly, and they broke up, pretty standard regretcore stuff haha
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The background music to my regretcore phase was Blood for Blood, with a lil bit of Rage sprinkled in there. I wish i would have known about all this pop punk regret shit back then, esp Mest one of my favorite bands now thanks to you Serg!
I know this is like 10 years late for me to post on, but yeah, the singer first came out and told everyone he had to go to rehab for drinking and he was embarrassed of his problem and couldn’t control it which is why his bandmates were pissed at him etc etc, but then the members who quit posted some big thing that basically said “No fuck that, he hardly ever drank. He just stole a lot of money all the time from us so he could do shit like take out randoms on rly expensive dates and getting stupidly high and whatever man shit fuck” and he didn’t respond to that. But he’s probably gonna get a full new line up (he’s done it before) and keep on going as “YMAEWK III”