Brand New - Science Fiction (August 17, 2017) [ARCHIVED] Album • Page 1662

I don’t think there’s many people alive that “identified” with Brand New more than me.

I think those “fans” should shut up and grow up.

 

Ugh I almost threw up. I have no interest in listening to this band for a very, very long time. It'd be like watching a snuff film.

Hypothetically can't imagine wanting to listen to any album from them in the future except potentially Science Fiction, which at least seems to be about his therapy and working through his shit. But yeah, I'm pretty close to doing something drastic whenever my $50 vinyl gets here.

 

Completely agree. And not justifying it. I’d also suggest (based on our internet friendship and reading your thoughts throughout the years) that you’re better at reflecting and allowing your reasoning to kick in in these types of situations.

 

I can't not listen to TDAG. Not that I'll listen to it a ton but this is exactly when I listen to it a lot. I can drop the other four. Especially the first two, there's too much on those that would just be too gross right now and maybe forever.

Wasn't sure how I'd feel when I put on TDAG last night but the music means too much to me. Lyrically it's tough and too on the nose now. I don't know how to put how I feel about it. It's less identifying with it now and more just thinking I know I'm better than this. Hard to put it into words idk. I respect anybody that can just flat out drop all their music but I can't, at least for one album

I hadn't listened to Science Fiction though in awhile leading up to these events cause I started to just find the album a real downer idk

 

Yep. 100% first thing they can and should be doing. Time to finally grapple with the shittiest part of your fanbase. It's not just yelling during slow songs anymore.

 

You have social media footprint 1m+ strong. How you wield that power is important. Just to sell merch? Or does it matter?

/2cents

 

I’m in the same group sort of. TDAG vinyl was a gift from my girlfriend after a rough period between us. Selling it off honestly broke my heart. But I couldn’t keep it without feeling like, guilty. So I feel for you. It’s not shallow to be sad about something like that. You’re not “moping” about the object, but the memories attached to it.

 

Vinyl packaging is super nice

I don’t know what to do with it

 

I’ve been struggling a lot with this in regards to how I feel about their music now, as brand new was a huge part of undergrad for me, seeing as I’ve seen them 12 times in my last four years in school, including flying out to Jersey and Chicago on my birthday to see them. I could never forgive or forget them or support the band in any way ever again, but I have made it a personal point to try to keep ownership of the music. It’s a little selfish but I have listened to a lot of brand new (and Julien baker) over the last few days to try to work through these feelings. At first I thought I couldn’t do it (made it through half of a song and had to turn it off) but now I can make it through science fiction. I think I’m resolving to not let this take away music that I loved for so long but also to remember this any time I listen to it and make sure that we don’t forget what we learned from it. I would also never recommend the band to anyone or put them on a public playlist or anything or the sorts again too.


Anybody out there trying to figure this out too? I’ve seen a lot of people who wrote off the bands music immediately (commendable, but very difficult for me to do) and shitheads defending Jesse so they can hold on to the music, but since the second allegations broke out I haven’t seen a lot of folks in the middle and I feel awful for being unsure.

 

There’s enough great music out this year I don’t need to really figure out how I wanna handle their music for a few months as far as I’m concerned. I want a break. A big break before even thinking about it.

 

I wouldn’t judge anyone struggling with what to do with the music... though it was an easy decision to drop them for me. A lot of other bands out there that I can listen to.

The only people I would judge are those who now know what happened and don’t care and people who are attacking the victims.

 

I’ve checked out. I’m popping my head in here occasionally to see if Brand New has made any statements, but I’m done reading any form of message board or comment sections. It’s toxic and really doesn’t benefit the situation or myself in any way.

 

totally forgot that I ordered a ton of merch from their latest release of new shit until the package showed up at my apartment today.

(needless to say i'm either altering all of it to not say brand new or donating it, but still. it did not make me happy to receive that package)

 

“Home on a Saturday night with all my doors locked up tight” is the only Jesse lyric I could think of supporting at this current moment.

Ha

 

I've been trying to think of a Sowing Season pun. Like, hey Jesse, it's harvesting season now, enjoy what you've sown.

 

I don't like thinking abou sexual assault. I can enjoy the music, but I don't know I could listen without thinking of sexual assault. So I just have no interest in the music anymore.

I have listened to so, SO much Mighty Mighty Bosstones the last four days. It's the perfect mix of angry punk rock and happy, peppy hopeful tunes, with progressively minded lyrics (also, they're so damned old they weren't involved with the Warped Scene much, if at all). They've been my soothing balm all year, since the election (I trained for and ran a half marathon with only them as the soundtrack), and the last four days especially, I've been listening to them to find a bit of hope in music.

Not that it matters much what I listen to given all the important stuff going on. But music makes such a difference to my emotions and how I feel in a given moment, I've needed exactly them so damned much the last year.

 

Ugh. Fucking idiot.

 

As I said a few days ago, the music will probably still get listened to by me because I connected the lyrics to personal stuff going on in my head or my life, not Jesse’s.

That being said, I’ve only been able to listen to a handful of songs from SF since the news dropped. I don’t think I’ll be listening to the older stuff for a lonnnnng time. It just feels too weird.

And since everyone seems to be cringing at lyrics right now...

And if there’s any justice in heaven, then god won’t let me in
He’ll lock the gates and take my weekend pass away...
....I know I deserve worse, but it terrifies me and I can’t take it anymore

I don’t understand how someone can know how fucked up what he’s doing is, clearly knows, and yet you know in the moments he was with these women he was probably smiling and acting happy and etc...just so much ugh.

 

block and move on lol
these people have issues.

 

Ruin more bands fuck the bands tell your stories.

 

tell him what ruined the band was THE FUCKING RAPE.

(I just realized I saw someone like censor the r-word before so if this like triggers anybody or something let me know and I'll make sure to do so in the future)

 

I hate rape more than I like music.

Let the stories be told.

 

Based on your avatar, trying listening to Home, Like Noplace Is There. It does a really fucking good job of summing up how I feel right now.