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Yikes

 

That video is going to be bad.

 

Oh boy

 

I got WYHSB video effect vibes. I’m intrigued

 

I'm on record for wanting them to just say fuck it and have fun with this video so I'm intrigued to see where it goes

 

Thought that said it was directed by Adam Sandler for a second

 

Flossing. Still a thing?
I almost called it dabbing lol I’m old lol

 

I saw someone unironically shout out Flyswatter as missing old blink on the Trio FB page just now lol

 

I miss when blink played like total garbage and sounded like total garbage. Those were the days!

 

I literally have never made it through more than 20 seconds of it. It's so unlistenable hah

 

I mean, I listened to it on occasion in middle school. Maybe once a few years after that. But that’s it. No desire to ever listen again.

 

I listened to Cali DLX today and i enjoyed it more than i remembered

 

Well guess I'll be getting home earlier than expected tonight

 

i feel like maybe they were trying to recreate the feeling this video with teenagers going wild and this video is just their 2019 take on it. that's my guess

 

Show was good tonight. But the acoustic set kind of killed the good vibe they had going on. I thought the place was going to be empty, and especially less full with the Wayne cancellation, but venue was slammed tonight! Count on OC to bring out all the rich suburban teens who just know the hits.

 

that deck is *chef's kiss*

 

According to Travis’s Insta story they brought out Vic Mensa last night, who famously called X out for his abuse after his death...

 

• Key takeaways from blink-182's new cover feature on the latest issue of Kerrang:
  • Much of "Nine" was informed by Mark's "heavy moods" as he has been struggling with depression fueled by negative news stories and a toxic online environment. "I think I've realized that my brain naturally goes in cycle to dark places and I have to actively combat that. My brain can eat itself sometimes". Mark is "not in a place right now where I want to write really happy, up-tempo songs. I felt that on this record there's stuff underneath that was bothering me. I needed to address it. It comes out in the lyrics. I think that I'm in a headspace now where I want to be more open and honest with my lyrics."
  • Mark has turned to punk rock as therapy. "Playing music is the biggest outlet". Judging by the doomy emotion of Nine, the musical healing has paid dividends.
  • Shot through with scratching guitars, brooding vocals and scattershot breakbeats, Nine is a giant step away from the rainbow-bright hooks of 2016's California. In spirit, the prevailing mood is more in tune with Untitled, blink-182's 2003 episode of introspection that ushered in fan favorite I Miss You and its ominous references to depression ('This sick strange darkness comes creeping on, so haunting every time').
  • Meanwhile, a deep dive into Nine's lyric sheets — written by Mark and Matt — uncovers talk of 'damn insecurities' and self-medication (The First Time), isolation (Happy Days) and boozy remorse (Hungover You).
  • But it's Black Rain that provides the biggest surprise. A skittering, "post-punk, industrial" charge, it is underpinned by a dark-hearted chorus: 'Tragedy erased my memory/And now all I see is this black rain.' Compared to the summery hooks of She's Out Of Her Mind and Bored To Death, this is arguably blink-182's biggest lane change in years.
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• • Initially, Nine used to be a very different record. At first the band felt flushed with inspiration; around 30 songs of pop-punk were captured over a period of time. But then self-doubt struck. The new material wasn't different enough; the latest songs sounded too stale, too repetitive, too predictable. "Sometimes the songs you love instantly — the ones you think, 'This is the best thing ever!' — are the songs you get burnt out on the quickest," says Matt. "The ones you're later really into are the ones that grow on you slowly. They stand the test of time during the course of making the record. I think it was Travis who said it first: 'You think you've got a record until you realize you haven't got that many awesome songs.' Slowly and surely Mark and me went to John and said, 'Yeah, I think I'm with Travis...' It's a jagged pill to swallow because it was true. To make a good record you really have to trust the people you're making music with. I think everyone has to be in love. I trust Mark and Travis completely when it comes to anything at all."
  • Months of work were ripped up as blink-182 started again, this time working from a new blueprint. Rather than springboarding from guitar melodies — as they had before — songs were crafted from drum breaks and beat ideas written by Travis. A raft of shadowy lyrical ideas emerged in their slipstream. "Blink's always been very melodic but on the darker side lyrically," says Travis. "From the time I joined the band, I felt it was that way."
• • "Matt's awesome," says Travis. "Even for the California album, he got in and he really figured it out and he played his part, even at times when we were getting ready for a tour. He's like a low-key superhero. I always know he's going to come through. We're a strong unit. We were before, too, with Tom — I'm never going to say anything negative about Tom — but it's like a relationship: there's your ups and downs with one person. Matt, Mark and I get along really, really, really well. We never really have any hiccups."
  • Matt feels like "I now know my place in blink better than I did years ago. We all know each other a lot better. Were always learning, and if you're doing life correctly, you're learning something every day. In a band it’s no different, you're learning about each other and you're learning about must, and it's a lot of growing up. It's only tightened and cemented our friendships and our love for this band collectively."
• • It was this cohesion that allowed Matt - with a helping hand from John Feldmann - to sketch out the harmonies and lyrics that would later become Black Rain. Alone in the studio, the pair decided to work on a brand-new song. But when John began to play a series of hymnal chords on the piano, accompanied by a "churchy" lyric ('Salvation, the angels are singing salvation') a far darker idea began to form. "We then went into the studio in his house and started doing verses that were very like Nine Inch Nails," says Mat "We wrote it real fast and then Mark came in and gave Black Rain its The Cure-y, blink-182 sound. For the lyrics, I'd been thinking about my issues with organized religion. I think there's a big difference between religion and faith - they're two very different things. Faith is a beautiful thing, no matter what your faith is... unless it's the Ku Klux Klan, or some horrible piece of shit organization like that. Faith is something you can't learn, you can't buy. it's something you believe. It's what you think. "I had just watched a film called Spotlight, which was about the cover-ups of these abusive priests. They were covering up molestation and known abuses of children. I think the salvation stuff that John was writing about came from a very true place and I respect that deeply; I respect people's faith. But I have zero faith for the business of fear and war-mongering. It's another thing that instils a deep rage in me. I took John's hopeful, churchy idea and painted it black."
• • Despair peppers the darkest corners of Nine. Album opener First Time deals with the frustration of chasing that never-to-be-repeated rush of the first high, the first drink and the intoxicating buzz of the first love. "People are always chasing this idea of perfection, but ft never going to be what it’s like in your head," says Mark. "I feel like in the world today people want a quick fix."
  • Elsewhere, Heaven was inspired by the mass shooting in Hundred Oaks, California last year, one of far too many killing sprees that took place within the United States, where the gun laws have led to widespread terror. "There are so many mass shootings right now," sighs Mark. "The world is a really violent dangerous place."
  • Meanwhile, On Some Emo Shit is "a straight break-up song". "The idea is that you hear votes and you see pictures of someone that you've broken up with. It takes you back to the bad places." Throughout Nine's 15 songs there are references to drunken despair, the numbing of some imagined pain and medication.
• • "I think the band is still the same [as in the Enema days]," says Mark. "Were still guys who want to write the best music we can and go out and do a good show. I think that we've gone through a lot. On one hand we're a lot more confident in what we do and on the other hand I think we’re still trying to write the perfect song. The energy in the band now is more like it was back then. People are in good moods, people are very supportive of one another, people are excited. There's a really good unity within the band. We like what we do and we're excited to continue doing it." An atmosphere of openness and trust currently fuses this band together, while their backstory of bad times has been just as inspirational as the good. The resulting existential turbulence and the bleak lyrical wordplay that informs much of Nine has delivered another record of instantly memorable songs, one Mark claims might be his band's most honest album yet.

 

I’m excited for the album even more. Haven’t listened to the released songs in about a week...thinking I can hold out until 9/20.

 

Black Rain sounds promising, always love when blink wears its Cure influence on its sleeve

 

Now THAT'S an album preview.

 

Really excited to hear Black Rain.

 

Really good preview. I feel more confident in this record delivering after reading the article. Time will tell of course.

 

Has me pumped, now i want a track by track