Great piece. Also this one from 2015 hints at how vast the scope of the problem is: https://medium.com/cuepoint/warped-behavior-sexual-violence-on-tour-8ad218d50bc9
Gotta imagine there's a reckoning coming. How many dozens of bands must have known this stuff went on and turned a blind eye to it?
― Evan R, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
i was once at a green day show when i was about 15, i was getting a ride home from these friends of a friend's older brother and they were huge nerds who wanted to stay and meet the band afterwards, which i wasn't really interested in but they were my ride home. tre cool (who would've been late 20s at the time) spent the whole time trying to convince a 15/16 year old girl to get on the tour bus with him, and pulled his cock out at some stage with some really flimsy pretext.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
jesus fucking christ
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
When I was in university taking a shuttle bus between campuses, I randomly overheard a girl (roughly my age at the time so I'd say 18-20) talking about how she'd had sex with someone from GD after a show. That's pretty second-hand, obviously, but it's always stayed with me.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Have other band members responded yet?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
Not that I've seen.
I finally brought myself to read the Pitchfork piece and jfc
― Simon H., Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
If anyone ever wants to write a piece about #MeToo and artist fandom, which someone probably should, they'd do well to start with the wildly divergent (and still-unraveling) reactions on the Brand New subreddit.
― Simon H., Friday, 18 May 2018 01:58 (six years ago) link
can't bring myself to read that tbh. used to be a part of the brand new online fan community as a teenager and those people are nuts
sort of hate myself for loving this record as much as I do. but maybe that's what brand new's music is about, and why it speaks to me so much -- so much of it deals in guilt, self-loathing...it feels very earned.
― k3vin k., Thursday, 7 June 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link
October 2018? hell yeah
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 13 October 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link