in which i live up to my name

[kaizoku]

I downloaded like... 20 cds worth of music tonight. *music hangover* And then I went and saw La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) which is lovely and heartbreaking and bilingual and you should all go see it at the theater if you can.

*Looking at bandom picspam* I'm really glad that people like and are interested in the girlfriends of the bandboys. But it bothers me when the justification for not hating one of them is "she makes him happy." I see this ALL OVER. I get where it's coming from, because yeah, of course your first allegiance was to the person in the band. But I don't like the implication that she's just there to make the boy happy, that that is her function. And it raises the question -- if they break up and she's not making him happy anymore, are you going to go back to hating her? I don't think most (sane) people would actually do that, but that's what we're setting ourselves up for here.

I have a longer rant about how white boy fandom feels like it's all-pervasive and how frustrated I'm getting with that but I'll spare you all for now.

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[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Well, there's "bandom" in the sense that you see most often on livejournal which is sort of 6 degrees of Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance and includes Panic at the Disco, Cobra Starship, The Academy Is..., Gym Class Heroes, The Used, Paramore, The Hush Sound, The Sounds, Straylight Run, Taking Back Sunday, All-American Rejects, Brand New, Plain White T's, The Cab, give or take a few others. A lot of these bands are on the Fueled by Ramen label and they've toured and played together. I've also seen fic for AFI, Avenged Sevenfold, Good Charlotte, Cute Is What We Aim For, Green Day, My Bloody Valentine, Placebo... and a lot of other rock bands I can't think of right now. Some people consider all of them bandom while other people just use it to mean the FOB/MCR-related bands.

My problem with most of this music is that it seems so homogenous

No, I agree... I mean they're not all the same but most of the bands have a pop-punk sound and collectively they comprise a tiny, tiny fraction of the music I enjoy. I think it's the combination of this set of bands all knowing each other plus the context of the "scene" in general (plus the "stagegay") that's made it so popular.