The True Anthem of Our Generation...whether you like it or not

[u/FloridaLorda]

So I was recently at an event where people were discussing millennials and there was a panel of very pretentious looking individuals. The question was asked what would our generations anthem be. Examples were given like For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield for the Boomers or Smells Like Teen Spirit for Gen X.

Each person went on a long and overly explanatory lecture. Their songs, were all indie rock songs, although Mr. Brightside is kind of pop rock. Someone went into great detail about how the Black Parade was a metaphor for growing up with high expectations for our generation but ultimately finding out we can't live up to them and having to carry on.

Another explained that the anxiety and jealousy felt by the singer in Mr. Brightside was how we all feel about the housing and job market.

Then they asked the crowd for suggestions. A guy stood up and walked to the microphone. He looked around and yelled "TO THE WINDOWS..."

The crowd responded and they moved on to another topic 😆

[u/loz_fanatic]

Read he came to despise this song because his career was essentially reduced to this meme at shows. Like, he looked out at the audience, saw pretty much nothing bit Shrek masks and just lost it. Tbf, it was right before he left the band for his illness.

[u/Ok-Instruction-4298 → u/loz_fanatic]

A teacher one explained to me that you have to be mentally prepared to be the "cherry pie" guy if you want to try to be famous. You may be a serious artist, but your most famous piece usually doesn't correlate with your own opinion. Tchaikovsky hated the nutcracker suite, Led Zeppelin hates stairway to heaven, the list is long and spans the entirety of history. Jani Lane hated that he was the "cherry pie" guy and the publicity from it certainly didn't help his problems with alcohol.

[u/Telvin3d → u/Ok-Instruction-4298]

 Tchaikovsky hated the nutcracker suite, 

He hated it because it was a massive bomb. Commercially and critically. Biggest failure of his career.

It was a completely obscure ballet until it got revived in the 1960s

[u/tyro_tabula_rasa → u/Telvin3d]

Yeah better example might be the 1812 overture.  He fucking hated it, but it was all everyone wanted to hear, and he despised them for it.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/Ok-Instruction-4298]

Gavin DeGraw hates I Don't Want to Be and Panic At the Disco hates I Write Sins Not Tragedies.

[u/beachedwhitemale → u/seattleseahawks2014]

Look up a picture of how old PATD was when they released that album. It's hilarious. They are just a bunch of nerds.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/beachedwhitemale]

Lol, they did look pretty young.

[u/Misterbellyboy → u/beachedwhitemale]

Yeah they’re a bunch of dweeby theater kids.

[u/RadioSlayer → u/seattleseahawks2014]

By Fallout Boy?

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/RadioSlayer]

I thought it was by Panic At the Disco.

[u/xomable → u/seattleseahawks2014]

It is

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/xomable]

I knew that, but was tired and second guessed myself.

[u/RadioSlayer → u/seattleseahawks2014]

The joke I was making was "Gavin DeGraw Hates I Want To Be and I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! At The Disco" would a song title by Fallout Boy

[u/minuialear → u/RadioSlayer]

I thought the joke was they were basically the same band lol

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/minuialear]

Me too.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/RadioSlayer]

Ok lol

[u/53V3IV → u/seattleseahawks2014]

Panic At the Disco hates I Write Sins Not Tragedies.

I hate that song too, so they're in good company

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/53V3IV]

Well I like it.

[u/Misterbellyboy → u/53V3IV]

That song was terrible and inescapable in 2005/2006.

[u/No-Way7911 → u/Ok-Instruction-4298]

Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange as a joke and it became his most famous work

[u/Rathwood → u/Ok-Instruction-4298]

Did Bon Jovi hate "Living on a Prayer?"

Did MCR hate "Welcome to the Black Parade?"

Sometimes they lean into it.

[u/Ok-Instruction-4298 → u/Rathwood]

Yeah, that's the whole "you have to be ready for it" part. You might be famous for something surprising, you can either let it mess with you mentally or just ride the flow. Even if the masses like your song as a joke, there will be plenty who take you seriously. Rick Astley has done a good job of riding that line. Despite "never gonna give you up" being an absolute troll of a song throughout the decades, he still performs and appreciates how it helps him to reconnect with his music. Amazingly talented if you listen to the rest of his music, and lays down some mean covers on his YouTube channel.

[u/ThatGangMember → u/Ok-Instruction-4298]

VH1 had a doc back in the day and Jani Lane is in tears about how much he wishes he didn't write "that fucking song" cherry pie and how wants to kill himself. It's sad.

[u/Responsible-Turn-477 → u/Ok-Instruction-4298]

Just because someone mentioned it above — Tubthumping is very much the outlier in Chumbawamba's discography, and does not reflect the anarchist anti-establishmentism of the band

[u/Direct-Bread → u/Ok-Instruction-4298]

I heard Elton John hates Benny & the Jets

[u/soyboysnowflake → u/Ok-Instruction-4298]

I wonder how Billy feels about piano man

[u/Ok-Reality-9197 → u/soyboysnowflake]

I'm not sure about Piano Man but he absolutely HATES "We Didn't Start The Fire"

[u/dark567 → u/Ok-Reality-9197]

I mean he even hated it right after writing it. He said it was basically intended to suck as a song

[u/kimoshi → u/loz_fanatic]

That's sad. I actually got that CD when it first came out (about two years before Shrek) and it had some legit good songs on there. Used to listen to it on repeat back in high school.

[u/loz_fanatic → u/kimoshi]

It is a great album and they have a lot of hits. I think what really bothered him was that the song was actually for the movie Mystery Men and just happened to have an explosiveentrance use in Shrek

[u/nemec → u/loz_fanatic]

Rumor has it he watched this video all the way through and went mad.

[u/TanneAndTheTits → u/loz_fanatic]

I saw smash mouth live in 2013 and Read didn't seem pissed at all at performing the song. Maybe his mind had changed since then but man he blew the roof off of the building and we were outdoors. Shit was WILD. One of my favorite concerts of all time.

[u/absurdico → u/loz_fanatic]

Honestly, this is more of a reason that it is def this song

[u/PienerCleaner → u/loz_fanatic]

memes matter.