Screams Mistaken For Laughter (ghost_on_stage) wrote, @ 2003-11-24 23:43:00

Current mood:	awake
Current music:	None More Black - Drop the Pop

Ok...here's the deal with AFI
as I found out about other bands...I've realized that AFI is not THE SHIT.
I mean, they are still my favorite band...well, one of them.
and they will always be an important part of me....they changed me, my music choice, they made me a better person..
they helped me keep myself up in a very tight part of my life...when I came to live here to the USA...summer of 2000
school was out...I had NO FRIENDS at all...so, I was really depressed...they helped me hold my own...and think by myself, kind of...by keeping my mind off depressing thoughts.

AFI always had a lot fans...well, when I started listening to them they had a lot fans...but I've never met, or seen one until my senior year in highschool (three years after i started listening to them)
but lately I've seen changes on AFI and its music...I still love the music...but they way they look
it's like, they are trying to attract another crowd by their look...they are not being original...i mean, davey was a freaking rip off of Glenn Danzig and now it's just...blah, he wants attention or something...he wants to impact people by the way he dresses up...
I feel is not all about the music anymore....it's about look now...
Jade Puget, he is an amazing guitarist...but it's the same with davey...why try so hard to be different??..

but the thing that gets to be...and makes me uncomfortable when I listen AFI is that I now feel like I'm listening AFI cause now they are getting famous and I can say, "hey, i knew about them when they weren't that famous...".
also...
now there's a stereotype of AFI fans....the goth-boys-on-eyeliner-suicidal-i love Halloween-boys that look a lot like girls-I'm open minded person...
..I would be the "suicidal" type...and I really think I'm "suicidal" 'cause that's the only way to relate to an AFI song (I having problem expressing this...I'm dumb) like, being "suicidal" and listening to AFI will make it better...(I know it doesn't make sense..)

I will stop listening AFI for awhile...to see if they die...and when i listen to them again...would be like the first time...like it has happened before

this really is not a big a deal...
but the thing is that I don't feel as comfortable watching an AFI live video or music video anymore...they look soo freaking weird... the one thing that I tried to stay away from..the thing that drove me away from "heavy NU metal"a few years back...and when I heard AFI and saw the video for Totalimmortal and Days of the Phoenix...it was a punch in the face...it was awesome...
but now they are falling into the same thing....I hope their music stays as awesome...but now I heard they will experiment with electronic music...hopefully it will not be that bad....

I repeat..I love AFI....but I'm not as obsessed as before...I'm really happy that good music it's hitting the airwaves..
new fans killed AFI for me....stupid kids with their crushes on Davey and Jade....kids trying to look like Jade...
kids that think everything done by AFI it's great...they all killed AFI...

http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/afi/artist.jhtml

there you can watch two live videos of them...look at them and think of what I said...try and think NY yourself...be yourself..not by what you think it's the "right" way to think..

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on a different note:
I think i did good on my chem test...WHOO HOO!!!>..
but I'm worried about it...I wanna know the grade!!!

I feel I'm this close to lose it....
I'm growing weaker by the hour, every hour...
I'm trying my best to hold my own..to control myself...but slowly I'm losing it...

blah...

xpoopciclex 2003-11-25 06:38 (link)

right on! afi has been a big part of my life for a few years now. i don't pay much attention to the new fans. i'm not going to not like afi just because a bunch of fags only buying the new record or even their old ones just because they think davey havok is hot. i mean sure that isn't right to do, just because one of the band memebers is hott they should like them. that isn't how it should go. but i'm not going to let them spoil the good music for me just because they don't even care about the amazing music and lyrics, and talent that goes into making it. and def. it's not the new fans who have ruined afi if anything it's mtv. fucking mtv... much love (Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: ghost_on_stage 2003-11-25 11:35 (link)

..that's not it... it's that i'm not as obsessive with AFI.. not because the new fans, i'm kind of a new fan myself.. but, I dont know... i'm thinking that i'm liking AFI for the wrong reasons..because they are "cool" not because the quality of their music (which was the first thing that attracted me...fucking Totalimmortal's amazing!!)..but yeah... I'm sure it just a passing phase... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ghost_on_stage 2003-11-25 11:36 (link)
	call me anything... but Davey and Jade are NOT hot...davey is freaking discugsting and Jade is a freak! if some one in the band is hot that would be Hunter... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: xpoopciclex 2003-11-25 13:08 (link)
	haha old davey is hott. ever see him with short hair? one word: yuuuuumy (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ghost_on_stage 2003-11-25 13:11 (link)
	yeah...well, kind of short.. around Black Sail's era (when i started to listen to them)..he was ok..i mean, i'm a dude.. well, yeah...he was hot!, OK? i wish they would go back to those days....the way they look..not music like..even though it would be some what awesome.. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

thursdayrrp 2003-11-26 01:49 (link)

I must say, I enjoy looking at Davey and Jade. Also, I don't think a bands look should define the music they make, the music should. I agree that AFI has changed their sound a bit. It's definitley "poppier." Then again, so has Thursday, Thrice, and many other bands. It seems that a lot of good bands are switching from the more indie labels to major labels. With the change they pick up more fans, people you wouldn't have expected to see at the show. I think it's good though, the music brings people together that normally wouldn't associate with each other. I hate when bands sell out, but sometimes, in my opinion, they are just trying to advance. If every album by any given band sounded like the album before it, they would become too predictable and I for one would lose interest. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ghost_on_stage 2003-11-26 12:36 (link)
	i know what you're saying..i agree but it's be...the way they look is making me think that i enjoy the music because of them, not because of the music itself as it should be.. and the some fans really can make you feel out of place when you don't dress all black or if your life is not a "big dark room"... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ghost_on_stage 2003-11-26 12:41 (link)
	or if you don't dig make up on guys... ps..I still love AFI...is my favorite band..I love the new and old the same way.. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)