Just FYI, the next time I hear "Forever," I'm going to throw a brick at whatever radio is playing it. I am so sick of Papa Roach and their meaningless fucking shit. It isn't even their music that bothers me. If it was just the music with no words, I would probably find most of their songs to be tolerable. Or maybe if they were sung in some foreign language. No, their music doesn't really bother me. However, everything else about them does.
First of all, their name is fucking Papa Roach. Were all the good names taken? Did they have to pull out a dictionary and pick two words at random? How did they manage to find such a meaningless, shitty name? On the one hand I should congratulate them for having possibly the single worst name since The Magnificent Bastards. And by the way, I'm not making that one up. I used to work at a radio station and we had a soundtrack with a song done by a group called, I shit you not, The Magnificent Bastards. But back to Papa Roach.
Honestly, I hated them the very first time I saw the video for "Last Resort" on MTV, back in the days when MTV still played music videos. Not only was I appalled at the obnoxiously brainless lyrical content, but what really pissed me off about the video was they tried to make themselves out to be this big important rock band, associating themselves with actually big bands such as Nirvana, Tool, and Metallica. The problem is, nobody knew who the fuck they were. They showed hundreds of pissed-off teenagers with t-shirts or posters of all these major bands while they sang along with Papa Roach.. I threw up a little when I saw this dumbass repeating himself like a retarded parakeet with a Nirvana poster in the background. The whole thing was implying that the same group of people who listen to these other bands, also listen to Papa Roach, which couldn't be further from the truth. Which brings me to my next point.
Papa Roach is what rich kids listen to when they want to pretend they have something to be pissed off about. Millionaire pretty boys listen to it when they're only dating one prom queen at a time. Cheerleading captains listen to it when they break a nail. People from rich, two-parent households listen to it when Mom wants to go to a fancy Italian restaurant and Dad wants to go to a fancy Chinese restaurant. It sickens me.
But what really pisses me off about Papa Roach the most is their primitive lyrical content. When it's possible to even know what the fuck they're talking about, it's most just brainless, unoriginal crap. They just can't write interesting, thought-provoking lyrics to save their souls. And not only is it mostly lyrical filler, but they can't even come up with enough lyrical filler to fill their songs, so they're mostly just repeating the same lyrical filler over and over. And considering how many words they make up, you'd think they'd be able get through songs without having to constantly repeat everything. Want examples?
"C'mon, baby c'mon, yeah, baby c'mon, break it." - M80 - Do you really need any more examples? Just in case...
"I metamorphisize and make myself level." - Legacy - Yeah, metamorphisize is ALMOST a word.
"My name's Coby Dick. Mr. Dick if your nasty. Rock a mic with a voice that's raspy. 'Cause I'm poetic in my operations. My God given talent is to rock all the nations." - Infest. - This just gives me a headache.
"Watch your back because the next man is comin'. And you don't know if the next man is dumbin'." - Blood Brothers - In addition to making up a word again, what the hell is this even supposed to mean? AND...
"It's in our nature to destroy ourselves. It's in our nature to kill ourselves. It's in our nature to kill each other. It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill." - Blood Brothers - Way to stretch one sentence into four.
"Life's not fair." - She Loves Me Not - Not only is this something every four-year-old on the planet knows, he repeats it several times just in case you missed this nugget of wisdom.
"Nutty warrior, nothing's scarier. Kids are getting sick like Malaria." - Dead Cell - No matter how hard you try, the words, warrior, scarier, and Malaria do NOT rhyme. AND...
"Dead cell...Dead Cell...Dead Cell..." - Dead Cell - Apparently, coming up with an entire sentence to repeat over and over was too much effort, so two words had to do for this song.
"Whoah I'll never give in. Whoah I'll never give up. Whoah I'll never give in. And I just wanna be, wanna be loved." - To Be Loved - As if this weren't repetitive enough, they repeat this entire thing twice after every verse.
"It's allright, we're in love. Can't live with or without. It's allright, we're in love. Can't live with or without. We're in love. We're in love." - Revenge - Wow, that's deep. And repetitive.
"Do you like how it feels? I don't like how it feels! I don't like it. I don't want it. I don't need it. I don't like it. I don't want it. I don't need it. What the fuck is up?" - Snakes - Damn, you sure told them.
And finally, the song that is currently driving me up the fucking wall every time it comes on the radio...
"Because days come and go, but my feelings for you are forever." - Forever - Boy asshole, that's really deep. I bet it took almost five minutes to come up with something that complex.