*sigh*
This saddened me greatly.
[18 Aug 2005|10:50pm]
cold_eternal1
My Straight Edge Manifesto
Is It Possible to Stay True Til Death?
You’ve scarred everything you are, but you’ll never scar my pride!
Lets say there is this band that was once hXc but has since evolved into something else entirely. Two of the members are always listed as being sXe-in band bios, in magazine articles, and they have inked themselves with sXe ink to identify themselves as such. At one time both professed proudly to be edge but within the last couple of years they have stopped calling attention to it.
Lets say it comes to light that one is no longer edge and hasn’t been for some time. He’s been seen and photographed drinking and cavorting with groupies-most of them whom are at least ten years younger than he is, if not outright underaged.
While within the last few years or so they have not actively promoted themselves as a sXe band, it’s widely believed that they started out that way. I became sXe from their influence and I know I’m far from the only one.
Now only one member is still sXe, if that. If one guy is going to lie about it, who’s to say his best friend in the band is not lying as well?
Am I wrong to be disappointed or is it my own fault for believing in someone other than myself?
Is everyone destined to break eventually?
Is there an age, beyond 25, when everyone gets to the point that they say "Fuck it-it’s a youth movement and I am no longer young and I just want to be like everyone else. No one else my age is anymore, why should I be?"?
When the next album comes out, if this is true, should the guy come clean and own up to it?
And if he did, what about the countless young kids who worship him? Will he be responsible for either them breaking if they are edge or turning their back and never wanting to even consider being edge if they are not? Should he not fess up at all for the sake of the fans they will lose, the hearts broken and the disillusionment he will surely sow?
You failed me, you failed us all
What’s worse? To break edge and fess up knowing it will cause younger, easily influenced fans to do the same? Or to break and continue living the lie and letting people presume you are still edge?
Either way, if it’s true (and I was not there to check his drinks for alcoholic content or confirm every young girl he was groping on was in a monogamous relationship with him at the time), breaking edge is still breaking edge, no matter the age or the circumstance. The whole thing turns my stomach.
I have the title of their song that lead me to claim tattooed on my chest and when I looked at it in the mirror this morning, for a second I felt sick. You can come off with a great self righteous vibe, look in the mirror and say: "Fuck him! My blood still runs pure!", but it still feels like I’ve lost a brother and that sucks.
Thanks for letting me rant and to my now ex-favorite guitarist, thanks for nothing. Maybe you should go join Avenged Sevenfold instead, they’re right up your alley, pal.
Your idols fade away......
I agree with the sickly feeling, this kind of made me feel sick, if that's sad I don't care.
[18 Aug 2005|10:50pm]
cold_eternal1
My Straight Edge Manifesto
Is It Possible to Stay True Til Death?
You’ve scarred everything you are, but you’ll never scar my pride!
Lets say there is this band that was once hXc but has since evolved into something else entirely. Two of the members are always listed as being sXe-in band bios, in magazine articles, and they have inked themselves with sXe ink to identify themselves as such. At one time both professed proudly to be edge but within the last couple of years they have stopped calling attention to it.
Lets say it comes to light that one is no longer edge and hasn’t been for some time. He’s been seen and photographed drinking and cavorting with groupies-most of them whom are at least ten years younger than he is, if not outright underaged.
While within the last few years or so they have not actively promoted themselves as a sXe band, it’s widely believed that they started out that way. I became sXe from their influence and I know I’m far from the only one.
Now only one member is still sXe, if that. If one guy is going to lie about it, who’s to say his best friend in the band is not lying as well?
Am I wrong to be disappointed or is it my own fault for believing in someone other than myself?
Is everyone destined to break eventually?
Is there an age, beyond 25, when everyone gets to the point that they say "Fuck it-it’s a youth movement and I am no longer young and I just want to be like everyone else. No one else my age is anymore, why should I be?"?
When the next album comes out, if this is true, should the guy come clean and own up to it?
And if he did, what about the countless young kids who worship him? Will he be responsible for either them breaking if they are edge or turning their back and never wanting to even consider being edge if they are not? Should he not fess up at all for the sake of the fans they will lose, the hearts broken and the disillusionment he will surely sow?
You failed me, you failed us all
What’s worse? To break edge and fess up knowing it will cause younger, easily influenced fans to do the same? Or to break and continue living the lie and letting people presume you are still edge?
Either way, if it’s true (and I was not there to check his drinks for alcoholic content or confirm every young girl he was groping on was in a monogamous relationship with him at the time), breaking edge is still breaking edge, no matter the age or the circumstance. The whole thing turns my stomach.
I have the title of their song that lead me to claim tattooed on my chest and when I looked at it in the mirror this morning, for a second I felt sick. You can come off with a great self righteous vibe, look in the mirror and say: "Fuck him! My blood still runs pure!", but it still feels like I’ve lost a brother and that sucks.
Thanks for letting me rant and to my now ex-favorite guitarist, thanks for nothing. Maybe you should go join Avenged Sevenfold instead, they’re right up your alley, pal.
Your idols fade away......
I agree with the sickly feeling, this kind of made me feel sick, if that's sad I don't care.