enforcer's slimyboy thoughts

probably bad neopian times comic idea that appeared to me against my will:

[Nera (given name of KingOfTheMusicScene, my Falling In Reverse parody fan Neopet) is at a press conference]

Interview: Mr. Kelrad, everyone's talking about your latest gold record, but there have been some rumors that you have a...checkered past. How do you care to respond to this?

Nera, looking mildly embarrassed: Well, uh, it did use to be one of the only paint brushes you could get on the shop wiz...

[embarrassing escape the fate ronnie, or worse, popular monster 2024 "album" cover but it's a checkered shoyru]

so, this was the original poster of a video I found while doing some Dying Is Your Latest Fashion research earlier today. (Unfortunately, they have been excluded from Internet Archive and are not on archive.today.)

This is from 2007. It fully predates Falling In Reverse, as in, Ronnie wasn't in jail yet. What the fuck does the "falling" part refer to? If it was from after, uh, ca. 2009 (unsure when exactly the From Behind These Walls -> FIR name change happened), it would be obvious, but this is either baffling or prescient. You can't retroactively change a YouTube video after it exists or clip new content into it; you can only trim it. (And you probably couldn't do this as of when this person was active.)

if it was truly random, then congrats to this rando and/or official source from 2007 for predicting the future? I don't know of any other contemporal adjacent bands with "Falling" in their names, and I suspect if they existed I'd know by now. Also, outside of being an FIR reference, which temporally speaking, it COULD NOT BE, it doesn't make any grammatical or otherwise sense. Escape the falling...what?

If one were going to do something in the format of "Escape the fa[*]" and fill in some other clever word, there are more obvious and grammatical things. For that matter, Escape the Fall by itself would make more sense, because Blessthefall. (maybe that's it? and escapethefall.buzznet.com was taken? somehow this seems unlikely especially given mid-00s username sensibilities and how EtF and btf did not meet until Warped Tour '07, which this video technically postdates but not by much.)

There's an obvious answer to another word starting with fa- that could be applied to whatever it was Ronnie and Max had going on, but I'm not going to state it. I'm confident that it was used, most likely not complimentarily, without having to search for it.

Them being a simultaneous Escape the Fate and Blessthefall fan who fused the two names seems like the most plausible non-time travel answer, but I'd still expect someone to go for underscores or numbers if they were committed to that bit vs. changing the verb tense and basically destroying the reference.

Pretty confident time travel isn't real, and if it were, folks would have better things to do with it than mess around with Ronnie, but this makes one wonder. If time travel is, in fact, possible, and messing around with Escape the Fate is a valid thing to do with it (and either "Bethany" or the original owner of that URL knows the secret to it), that is of course extremely compelling.

escape the falling mic stands (aaayyy, i would dab but it is 2025 and people don't do that anymore)

You can't death of the author work when much of the artist's other work is about how your interpretations of his previous work is wrong, you know?

And unlike, well, authors, it is very clear that Ronnie poetically writes as himself, and since he mostly writes about how mean he is and what people think about him, that's basically part of "the work" in itself.

You can't death of the author a guy who's (a) not dead and actively benefiting from what you're doing. once you're listening to songs in ways that don't support him then we'll talk and (b) will overtly tell you what he wants you to think of his work, and attack you if it's not what he does.

Now, Ronnie will retroactively claim he was trying to be funny when there's no evidence of that, but I'm not counting that. He makes it REAL obvious when he thinks he's being clever because he'll pat himself on the back and explain how clever he is. And he definitely hates having his "serious" songs perceived as childish or funny.

We can never fully prove that anything of FIR was fully serious or not without being able to read minds, but it's clear that in terms of framing and how much he loves them, Alone, Rolling Stone, and the solo album are just as "serious" and intended to be taken at face value as good by FIR metrics as, say, Sink Or Swim or any other "serious" song. They're at minimum as serious as FIR gets, and if they are, then you've got no cause to say that the equivalently stupid Bad Guy or Zombified aren't simply because it's pointed out to you that they're musically bad and thematically rancid.

While walking to raging burrito, I came up with a rebuttal to one of the main arguments cited by FIR fans against critics, namely that we just don't get that FIR is meant to be humorous and Ronnie is just a silly little guy and we don't understand satire.

I take Bad Guy, Right Now, etcetera seriously not because I don't understand Ronnie, but because I do. Here are the 3 precepts for my belief, all cited primarily from I Can Explain (the most detailed and authoritative work from Ronnie about Ronnie we'll probably ever get) but backed up in other sources from FIR / band journalism, including contemporal ones.

1. The only FIR songs that have been explicitly stated as meant to be humorous as I can recall are Fashionably Late (title track), Just Like You (title track), Bad Girls Club (what the fuck is wrong with you), and possibly I'm Not A Vampire, or at least its music video.

2. Alone and Rolling Stone, you know, "I've been in rap since I was sitting in Pampers" and "gut you like a fucking avocado", and his solo album (look at literally any song), Ronnie gushes about. He clearly thinks they're cool and badass and expressive and genre-bending genius songs. (Although in the 2024 pre-Ronald interview, he might have finally conceded that Alone is stupid. It still doesn't change that he was blowing its horn for at least 7 years given I Can Explain's release in 2021.)

3. Ronnie HATES being perceived as funny or cute when he's not trying to be.

Alone and Rolling Stone are intended to be serious, or as serious as FIR gets -> Alone and Rolling Stone are some of FIR's stupidest songs, lyrically speaking (equivalent to the likes of Bad Guy or Right Now) -> Ronnie hates being thought of as funny when he's not trying to be, and toots his own horn quite clearly when he is trying to be so we can see how clever he is -> all FIR songs of equivalent or lower stupidity are serious until proven otherwise.

I take FIR seriously in my criticism because, well, FIR clearly does. And what they consider to be funny isn't complimentary either.

if you're a solipsist, but don't know yourself, then you don't understand literally anything you're looking at

Perhaps in private / DMs with what they perceive as fellow fans, even the worst of Ronnie Enjoyers are more perceptive than they appear on social media / in groupchats (Max's Discord strongly objected to the insinuation that PM2024 was bad, along with that perhaps Ronnie synonymizing being queer with pedophilia was a bad thing to do) and need to posture for other slimewads. Because if you look for...anything, the present state of FIR being worse than ever before is damned obvious. Fashionably Late at least had interesting structural elements even if it didn't execute them well, and Ronnie could still sing and had hair.

Every Ronnie Knower-Abouter worth their salt knows Dying Is Your Latest Fashion was and is better, but it takes a certain special sauce to get as close as possible to mathematically proving it, at least as popularity and sales are concerned. And you don't need to look very far on EtF / FIR / genre circles to get pretty consistent agreement that it's better from listeners, too.

I had a sociologically interesting conversation once with a Flight Rising user who was even more open about Falling In Reverse affiliation than I am. As in, she (pronoun relevant) openly referred to Bad Girls Club as her favorite song. Despite being a Ronnie Enjoyer in as bad of ways as she could be on FR, including misinformation about what I See Stars did / didn't do, she still agreed with me that Ronnie is clearly miserable, the current (as of Nov / Dec 2023, pre-Ronald) state of FIR is lackluster and worse than previous output, and things need to change for the band to be sustainable. Now, being on FR and having pronouns in her bio means she's perhaps not your typical Ronnie Enjoyer, but I still think about that.

Although it does look like this is an internal Epitaph memo (how the hell did Wikipedia get it?) so is perhaps a more reliable number than a promotion would be. If we assume the 168,000 sales is legit and those are all actual purchases (which I think they'd need to be because streaming would not be that much of a thing), then for the time between DIYLF's release in September 2006 and that memo coming out in, uh, probably at latest June-ish 2011 given that it talks about TDIMIY in the future tense and it's a "be prepared" message, then it was selling an average of 98 album units per day. (September 26, 2006 for DIYLF release and June 1st, 2011 as a placeholder for the FIR memo.)

The exact date on which TDIMIY got pronounced gold is unknown besides "December 2019", but 500,000 units in the span between July 26, 2011 and December 1st, 2019 rounds to 164 album equivalent units per day. If at least 59% of those were streaming, which I suspect they probably were, than DIYLF was better selling in terms of actual sales.

And in terms of how many people played / liked / acquired the album, or how many fans it had, or how widely it got shared: songs posted on MySpace / embedded on folks' HTML pages / etcetera wouldn't be counted among RIAA / streaming numbers, nor would peer-to-peer sharing, which would have been a lot more likely in the 2000s. As my mom put it, "How many folks got a copy of DIYLF from their Emo peers, labeled in Black sharpie?"

The file-shares and "streaming" sites DIYLF existed on weren't necessarily monetized or ones that RIAA counts. Also, if streams don't count retroactively, all the views on the Situations / NGE4TIC music videos don't. I want to say that Situations might have actually aired on MTV at the tail end of when they did music videos, although I can't find a source with a conclusion in either way. RIAA did not start counting streams until 2016. I can't find an answer on when their cutoff point is for streams counting, and whether or not the two 2007 music videos for DIYLF and the millions of views they got pre-2016 would have been included.

I have heard that Situations aired on MTV, but I can't find a clear citation that it happened -- like, there's no version of the music video on Yewchube which I can find labeled the "MTV version" or something. You'd think EtF would have bragged about it on MySpace, but they didn't, having gone through archived pages -- once they, y'know, existed, EtF and Ronnie alike didn't update at all consistently until Ronnie was in prison. MTV has an archived page for EtF that lists There's No Sympathy For The Dead and DIYLF, but it's very bare bones and doesn't explain why they're there / if they appeared on MTV. Even if they didn't make it onto the TV channel vs. just on MTV's online pages, that's still a huge distribution potential.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080324235450/https://www.mtv.com/music/artist/escape_the_fate/albums.jhtml

If you can find a source saying whether or not Situations aired on MTV even semi-conclusively, even if it's just someone saying that they remember seeing it on there, please send it to me. NGE4TIC might also have, but Situations is The Escape The Fate Song so is much more likely to (a) have had it happen and (b) to have sources talking about it, although I'm coming up pretty dry.

Just as a rough calculation -- we don't know how many of those views were between 2019 and now, but I just summed the YouTube view counts for all of TDIMIY -- that's 177,322 "album equivalent units" just from one platform. I suspect Spotify and pals are probably similar.

There is literally no way DIYLF hasn't sold more copies than any of its FIR counterparts. Calculated with "1,500 streams across all songs counts as a unit", RIAA's official number, and YouTube views (sourced via FreeTube) on all TDIMIY songs as of April 1st, 2025 at 7:35 PM (Eastern time). Source for 1,500 streams = 1 album sale; this is consistent across other sources discussing this as well and AFAIK has not changed since 2016.

Other interesting observations from TDIMIY's view counts:

1. The number of folks who listened all the way through it is WAY lower; the counts drastically drop as you get through the album. Which you'd expect.

2. Goodbye Graceful is drastically less popular than any other song, and I have no idea why. It's not just album position, since The Westerner comes after it and has over 500,000 more.

Anyway, long story short, based on all available evidence -- anecdotal, how music distribution and streaming work and have changed over time, and the streaming numbers that we can get -- despite not being RIAA gold, more likely than not, Dying Is Your Latest Fashion has had more people buy the album and likely has more fans, was better liked, and had broader cultural impact, than anything Falling In Reverse has ever done. Ronnie will never escape his fate, and EtF Ronnie was better on every possible metric.

QED, motherfuckers. (part of me wants to post this to the FIR subreddit and start a fight, but I know they're not going to actually read it and that probably falls under the "emotional self-harm" category. also they don't deserve me.)

A musing: RIAA counts "album equivalent units" for gold / platinum / etc. 1,500 plays, across all songs on an album, counts as an album sale.

Dying Is Your Latest Fashion probably has more actual Album Sales, in that people sought it out, liked it, and purchased it (either digitally or physically) than either of the technically "gold" FIR albums, and is therefore probably more popular / liked. YouTube has technically existed since 2006, but I don't think streaming became The Music Distribution until the middle of the 2010s, because everybody needed to have reliable enough phone data to be able to stream. For most of DIYLF's popular lifetime, if you wanted it, you NEEDED to buy it. NGE4TIC and Situations had videos in 2007, but the rest of it doesn't seem to have gotten onto Yewchube at all until 2015.

All Falling In Reverse albums were streaming-first / streaming-simultaneous. And streaming was less algorithmic in 2010-11 than it is now, so TDIMIY's gold is in better faith than PM2024, but it was still pretty damned algorithmic, so there's going to be the percentage of probably a damned high number of plays being "this got shoved in my face by an automatic playlist and I don't dislike it enough to skip". (and skipping may count, depending on platform. Spotify supposedly requires 30 seconds for it to count for the artist, but there's no primary source for that, and I don't know what RIAA does.)

DIYLF does, of course, still get algorithmic recommendations, but not nearly as many as its FIR counterparts. Ronald will get shoved in your face against your will from anything remotely genre-related. DIYLF you need to actually be on something plausibly connected to it.

500,000 units, of which 400,000 were streaming equivalents, as of 2020, is a completely different thing in terms of album popularity than 168,000 as of 2011 that were presumably actual sales. (Although the source for this is Epitaph promoting FIR, so possibly unreliable, it's kind of all we've got.) And also, streams don't account for the same person playing the songs multiple times. It's highly unlikely anybody would have bought a CD / iTunes download of the same album more than once.

I can't prove it, but it's pretty clear anecdotally re: how people talk about it that DIYLF is WAY more culturally relevant and liked, and I would not be surprised if it's sold more albums in terms of folks actually...buying it and intentionally seeking it out vs. having it fed to them, and possibly made more money, than its technically "gold" FIR counterparts. Even if we discount PM2024 getting years of headstart from the retroactively included streaming-first singles.

Source for DIYLF sales as of 2011: https://axis.wmg.com/h/sellsheets/FallingInReverse.pdf

I think it's fair to say that 168,000 sales of your album on iTunes / CDs (even if Epitaph is inflating those numbers, that's still before most of it was on YouTube / YouTube was set up for music monetization) is a completely different thing in terms of Active Engagement than even the equivalent 252 million plays across all songs, if a lot of those plays weren't folks seeking it out vs. it coming to them algorithmically. Which at least in 2020s / late 2010s streaming dynamics, they very much would have been, so that more represents genre fans than FIR fans. Also, TDIMIY took 10 years to get gold on its own merits. I suspect the only reason the DIYLF numbers aren't higher for the 2006-2011 span is that Craig didn't sell it at live shows.

I can't prove this. These stats simply don't exist: the Epitaph number from 2011 for DIYLF and TDIMIY / PM2024's "500,000 units" benchmark for gold are the only numbers we have. I guess hypothetically, one could do some math with streaming numbers and deduce a rough equivalent of albums sold, but you still can't determine how many of those plays are the same people, and there's no way you can account for EVERY streaming platform. But it would align with what's been anecdotally observed re: Dying Is Your Latest Fashion for it to have sold more albums / had more people buy it / for lack of a better word, had more FANS, and maintained those fans longer over time, than anything FIR has ever done. Because people on genre circles definitely like it better and seem to reference it more. Contemporal critics were not impressed with it seeing as it's a bunch of generic emo symbolism in a blender and just a really well-done take on standard formulae, but listener reviews across time love it and a common theme is "don't like Ronnie but this slaps." It's the only thing with Ronnie in it most sensible genre fans (and the folks on r/metalcore) will admit to liking.

Tell me I have a valid point about music distribution here and I'm not just rules-lawyering my way into "um actually this doesn't count and FIR sucks". It's very clear anecdotally across sources that DIYLF was liked way better. Even FIR journalism is telling in that even when it's completely irrelevant, Ronnie is nearly always referred to as "formerly of Escape the Fate".

absolutely adore the FR april fools. floppy disks! also despite my general disdain for effects as a feature i may have to come up with fandragon excuses to use the 90s tech ones

now, technically, "[Band Name] is [list of members]" is grammatically incorrect, but I'm willing to parse that as a truncated form of "[Band Name]'s personnel is / consists of".

It's an organization. It's made of people, but you say "[Band Name] is" just as one would say, e.g. "People For Pollinators is". The exception is if your band is named "The [plural noun]" in which case it uses plural grammar and presumably each member is a singular noun.

Now, the bands that really confuse me about how to refer to them are the ones whose proper name is just one pluralized word e.g. Architects and Traitors. Both "Architects is" and "Architects are" feel somewhat off.

Mildly interesting observation: Bullet For My Valentine uses plural grammar for themselves. Most other bands don't. Most bands, on the last page / back of their liner notes, list their lineup with "[Band Name] Is". BFMV, at least on Gravity, is doing "Bullet For My Valentine Are", which feels grammatically off. (I am scanning all of my CD liner notes, because what else would I do with my evening?)

yay, I can finally scry what goes on in my brain at all times (flight rising gene that turns the manes / furry bits on floofy dragons into a bunch of snakes + baby dragon that is mostly floof)

diylf playing on loop in here, just a bunch of snakes crawling through the slime

note: neocities file system is case sensitive, but windows isn't, so when uploading capitalized PNGs from snipping tool, change them to lowercase for Neocities

proud supporter of the oxford comma

well, it seems the "too warm in my room" problem has been momentarily solved -- unsure as to why, but it seems that it cooling down and/or raining outside (or maybe someone in the building finally flipped the switch) has made the AC actually start properly cooling

question of the day: who would be best at dealing with ronnie problems? a child psychologist, animal control, or an exorcist? because it sure isn't anyone who works for falling in reverse

ye gods neopets is laggy today

anyway it would sure be nice if you could fish with all your pets at once and didn't have to change to make everyone separately active

Thirty days hath September

April, June, and November

All the rest have 31

Except February because fuck you

ah, spring, when one's fancy turns to It's Too Damned Warm In My Room Again. At least they finally stopped running the heat, but I don't think the AC is actually cooling; it's just blowing. The fan does not really help, nor would opening the window since it's warmer outside. I guess I can try opening the window next time it rains?

you ever think about just how much art there is in the world? there is more music than you could ever listen to in a lifetime just within each genre...

I get unreasonably excited whenever any other genre band mentions fate and/or the escaping thereof because it's always 👀 oh? fate you can't escape? 👀

anyway this one is good; pretty much the exact niche of "like dying is your latest fashion but not" post-hardcore / metalcore hybrid i like, plus with fun electronic bits in there. compare destroy rebuild until god shows and very early (like, scene era) ice nine kills

Famous Last Words - In The Blink Of An Eye

one day i'm going to get banned from thoughts page for being disgusting probably.

i mean i can't blame them seeing as i've got the worst fucking special interest in the world

please cut me open and see if the slime comes out through my top surgery drains

kill your local falling in reverse fans

gonna try the latest version of both OBS and my graphics driver to see what that does. after all, it's not like I can make it worse than non-functional. then I guess I can try using software encoding or integrated graphics. enabled hardware acceleration in windows settings so i can tell OBS it can use as much GPU memory as it wants because it's such a special boy

don't like calling myself a "human" in relation to not being an AI generator, because i am decidedly not a human; i am a demon snake. perhaps i can edit that button if i can match the font

i do intend to install ubuntu, but only after i have a separate work / school laptop, because i know i need that for my job / postbac stuff and that most software for said requires windows

read some neocities blogs; feeling insufficiently indieweb and like having special interests makes me not a real person. "you are not what you like, you are what you are like"...yeah, but what if "what you like" is fundamentally intertwined with your philosophy and whatnot?

Well, my reaction video career might have to go back to being pseudo-podcasts. OBS, the software I'd been using, is still broken. It broke NVIDIA graphics cards recently, and every tip I've been recommended and tried (moving to an older and more reliable version of the driver, updating and reinstalling OBS, changing to software encoding, syncing my system clock) did not work. So I tried a different software, which worked in that it let me record for more than a minute...except that the file is HUGE and the video feed got unusably corrupted after 17 minutes. At least the audio seems to work so I can run it as a pseudo-podcast.

hehe bnnuy

also mabbitt deserves an award for being the only emo guy i've ever seen who can grow facial hair without looking like a total douchebag

Dead Rabbitts -- T/R/A/P/P/E/D (Official Music Video)

https://prettyevil.co/

Of all of the things I expected Ice Nine Kills to do, this is not one of them. Hopefully it goes better than Ronnie's clothing brand. Honestly, I can't suppress the response of "STICK TO MUSIC!" because, uh, who wanted this. Who cares.

Now, I guess good for them re: their masculinity. It takes big men to sell makeup. And I guess of the genre bands, despite their murderous theming, I'd trust them the most to make sure stuff is actually safe and of good quality given their attention to detail and production value in their music videos.

I would not trust FIR with anything that isn't available print on demand. Putting something with Ronnie's face on it into your body or in liquid form applied to your skin seems like a great way to get poisoned and/or have some horrifying FIR video transformation sequence happen to you.

should get back into flight rising dragon share

i wonder if Ronnie's love for himself would outpace his transphobia if a transmasc person more disgusting than me openly tagged him in letting him know that he's their inspiration. of course, in my case, it's a "I like what you had going on, but you weren't doing it well; let me see if I can fix it" and isn't exactly a compliment. it's like "good first try, I could do better". I think I'd do a better job at being Ronnie than he does, at least in terms of the vibes he gives off. Like, I can evoke everything of him that people want [as in, the EtF / TDIMIY stuff] and frankly I'm just as cute. If I had control of his body and he hadn't sabotaged his vocal range, I think I could fix FIR's scene cred reputation within 5 years. Perhaps that's why he's been destroying himself and removing everything that defines him as Ronnie? So he's less appealing to possess?

mochia://I hate Leapscape, but I respect that I hate it. Along with Risen Fall and the coop re: being frustrating. I'm of the opinion that every good panoply of mini-games needs something with a touch of sadism. There are things you do for easy daily grinding, and there are things you do for challenge, where getting them feels like an accomplishment. I like things like the Lever Of Doom and The Coop because they're messing with the concepts of RNG and avatar-gaining and such in its purest form.

The concept of Shadow Pokemon has been carefully avoided (which is part of why their presence in Pokemon Go surprises me so much), but the TCG has had its equivalent in "Dark Pokemon" for years, which I think are due for a comeback, so they could totally do that for introducing the Rocket leaders.

Of course, the team leaders and heck, even Professor Willow, have been pretty thoroughly neglected in their home games for the past couple years so...

I suspect that the Pokemon Go / TCG tie-in was a gimmick and is unlikely to come back, but I'd love to see it at least appear in TCG Pocket, if not get expansion in person (cards for the rocket leaders, please) for its 10th anniversary in 2026. Like, the TCG cards are the best art the team leaders have ever gotten and I want more, damn it.

Also, I've wanted the team leaders in Pokemon Masters EX since I briefly played it in 2021-22 (I played until I couldn't win in the campaign anymore) because it's the closest we're ever going to get to a Pokemon dating sim. (in that you get to socialize and bond with your sync pairs and their Pokemon as they get stronger. It's the most slice of life many Pokemon NPCs have ever gotten and it's great.)

Now, the legendary birds, which would be the team leaders' most logical sync pair partners, were given to the Gen 1 protagonist trio (lame), but like, there are shinies or they could give them other Pokemon iconically associated with them. Or they could just repeat Pokemon, which other sync pairs have done, or give them either birds or Elekid / Lapras / Rapidash with Pokemon Go costumes.

to clarify, EFF does great work otherwise, but describing artificial generation as increasing folks' access to visual art is fundamentally flawed

large "AI" models are antithetical to innovation. it's a slurry of what their corporate producers want the prompt to look like. it's stock photos writ large. there is no such thing as "innovation" when using prompts. fuck EFF being pro-AI art; there is nothing artistic about it

had a critter shift (i don't use the word "otherkin" or its derivatives because I think a lot of how that community frames things is flawed and/or does not resonate with me) that was quite noticeable, spontaneous, and had no particular reason behind it

literal giratina sitting at my computer playing mochia atm

do not look upon me

i was not meant to be seen by humans

it's looking at me

wikipedia pages on idioms are always fun because they nearly always have a section like this. There's also just something deeply pleasing about the phrase "ornithological accuracy" in general, especially when applied to obviously metaphorical and abstracted birds like this.

Swan song - Wikipedia | Bury Your Dead - Swan Song

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Like, off of Welcome To Horrorwood 2 (2021), my favorites are F.L.Y. (The Fly, duh), Rainy Day (Resident Evil), and Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead) precisely because they're not slashers and they can do more fun stuff with different concepts. Also, I just generally like more supernatural horror motifs better than regular murder, but there are only so many ways you can write a song about stabbing / sawing up / etcetera people.

Frankly, I mostly just want something from them other than assorted versions of songs about slashers with different motifs. Like, they're all well-executed and all, but the horror movies they tend to deal with all kind of have the same plot. Hell, even more horror movies that aren't just "mass murder with a given motif" would be more interesting. They're doing their fair share of musical interest, but it kind of feels like their lyrical cleverness isn't being used to its full potential on various Songs About Slashers, you know?

not quite sure if I'm really noticing the fairy tale theming ("beatdown hardcore" isn't a very literary genre, to put it mildly), but I dig this concept. @ice nine kills; I get that y'all are having a fun time with getting songs commissioned by movie / game producers you know and like, but do an album of "tales from the public domain", I beg of you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Breakdown