Millennials. We tend to hold onto the past like Elmyra does animals; too tight. I’m probably the biggest culprit of this. With that, I decided to try and do what I could to slowly wean people off the past, by talking about it a little while also introducing audiences to something new. In this case, I’m talking about music. Specifically, pop punk and emo music because millennials truly came up in the grandest time to be Hot Topic rewards members.
However, over the past few years, new bands in the genre have emerged but for some reason, millennials swear up and down that the bands they loved 20+ years ago are the only ones to exist. Just not true. So I wanted to have musicians from these newer bands come through and talk about a classic pop punk album they crushed on. So we’re mixing the old with the new, and first up is Andrew from FELICITY and his love of an A Day to Remember album. However, it wouldn’t be Crushgasm without my own spin on things, so let’s talk about that one song of A Day to Remember that hits the sweet spot for me.
I say sweet spot because, for me, this isn’t a band I listen to regularly. I was never into them when they popped off with 2009’s ‘Homesick,’ and I think I just saw them for the first time at When We Were Young 2024. Before that, they were a band I’d see in passing at Warped Tour. However, every band on a Warped compilation has at least one song that can manage to wrap itself around anyone, and when it comes to A Day to Remember, it’s always and forever “You Should Have Killed Me When You Had the Chance.”
The following verse alone was more than enough to make this song all I needed and then some:
… I walked into your house this morning
I brought the gun from our end table
Your blood was strewn across the walls
They’ll find you on your bathroom floor
Everything from the imagery to the delivery is perfection for me. Did it cause me to listen to the rest of their music? Not really. I’d heard more than enough, at the time, to know that perhaps the rest wasn’t’ for me. However, in chatting with Andrew from FELICITY and listening to the album he brought to the table, I did unravel another jam from this band that perhaps I wouldn’t have otherwise ever heard. The same can be said for FELICITY.
Social media can indeed be creepy but sometimes those algorithms work in magical ways. It’s how FELICITY landed on my radar, and why “The Weather” has been in heavy rotation since. Influenced by A Day to Remember, as well as everyone from Nickelback to Metallica, Andrew and I talked at length about not only the album, but whether or not choosing the perfect intro track matters anymore, their upcoming tour with Fluorescents, and more like the new album, ‘Mixtape for the End of the World, Vol. 1,’ out June 18th.
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