It was only last year I actually learned the real lyrics to the song. I could never quite understand the lyrics by listening until I looked them up. Great message in there about being yourself and not giving a fuck about what haters think or say. 😃
God I love that song. I know nothing about the band, haven’t listened to their other stuff, but every time that song comes on the volume goes up, I start singing and tear up a little..
I laughed out loud when I finally realized what band was saying this.
Humorously, the lead singer is named Jim (Adkins), but the band’s name comes from the backing vocalist/guitarist Tom’s brother, also named Jim.
The band's name came from a crayon drawing made after an incident between [Tom] Linton's younger brothers, Jim and Ed Linton, who fought frequently. Jim usually won, but Ed sought revenge by drawing a picture of Jim shoving the Earth into his mouth; Ed captioned the picture "Jimmy eat world".
Engagement bait isn't effective communicating, it's a large component of what's wrong with the world right now. Instead of sharing actual knowledge or being more careful with our words, there's an incentive to get it wrong on purpose because that's what the algorithm rewards. Let's all be better.
I'm sure it was just autocorrect anyway. It's just a ridiculous thing to get worked up about, thinking communication is getting worse, kids these days, etc
They changed their name to "AJJ" instead of the full previous name. Basically saying Andrew Jackson was a piece of shit and everyone already called them AJJ anyway. That was a loooong time ago now, like maybe a decade.
Yeah I know it was a while ago and that's when I stopped listening to them lol. I can't say I wouldn't have even if they hadn't changed that name though. I think I used that as an excuse to cover up the fact that I just wasn't vibing with them anymore.
I assume that most institutions that are still active are only active to promote themselves, and mirroring the same content from instagram to X, and not actually engaging with the fans like in the early days of Twitter.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 104 pts · 199d
I love me some JEW.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 199d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 21 pts · 199d
It was only last year I actually learned the real lyrics to the song. I could never quite understand the lyrics by listening until I looked them up. Great message in there about being yourself and not giving a fuck about what haters think or say. 😃
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 199d
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 11 pts · 199d
That was twenty-two years ago.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 199d
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 10 pts · 199d
If that tour was a porn star she'd be in MILF porn now.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 199d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
that was a good tour
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 198d
Oh cool, Warped Tour '04 was my first concert! Best day of my life, honestly.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
iirc it was written for a young fan who was getting bullied in school
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 198d
I always figured it was something along those lines.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 199d
Why did you have trouble understanding the lyrics of the song? They pronounce all the words clearly.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 199d
The middle of JEW? E?
4grams@awful.systems · 4 pts · 198d
God I love that song. I know nothing about the band, haven’t listened to their other stuff, but every time that song comes on the volume goes up, I start singing and tear up a little..
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 198d
Oh man, that entire album is great.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 6 pts · 198d
Lol imagine the alternative. "Not a big fan of JEW." 💀
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 199d
You really bleed American, eh?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 199d
My veins are blue and I have red and white blood cells. Clearly, I bleed French.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 199d
Blue blood? Off with his head!
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 199d
Also don't release an album titled "bleed American" the day before 9/11.
rainwall@piefed.social · 94 pts · 199d
How about a live album of a concert in NYC that featured the twin towers on fire that was released on 9/11
I found the album a few weeks later in stores, even after they pulled it. Solid.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 38 pts · 199d
Man, I can't imagine their reaction.
Before release: "Man, thisnalbum cover is sick dude,what a statement"
Then release day: "Oh yeah, big day.... oh yeaj, city on fire man! Wait what? What do you mean actually burning?"
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 28 pts · 199d
That "Live scenes from New York" really sells it.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 199d
Oof I'm a big Dream Theater fan and never knew that. Poor timing for sure.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 198d
Throwing DT in the mix seems like cheating.
MNByChoice@midwest.social · 16 pts · 199d
Bit hard to pull that one off. Unless 9/11 were an inside job and the White House was informing the music industry.
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 199d
Real shit: there’s a conspiracy theory Milo Rossi debunked about the supertramp album breakfast in america predicting 9/11
Knuschberkeks@leminal.space · 7 pts · 199d
How about an album called "God hates us all" on 9/11?
deacon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 199d
Such a fucking good song/album though. I’ll never forget the first time I heard it.
calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone · 44 pts · 199d
I laughed out loud when I finally realized what band was saying this.
Humorously, the lead singer is named Jim (Adkins), but the band’s name comes from the backing vocalist/guitarist Tom’s brother, also named Jim.
thurstylark@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 199d
Our names are Jim.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 199d
I will stick with my bandname for kids parties, Cool Under Northern Thunder, thank you very much.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 36 pts · 199d
You gotta get yourself one of these shirts
Its a parady of the Northern Territories advertising campaign that blew way up and has outlasted the government's efforts
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 198d
*parody
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 198d
Hahaha yeah didn't even notice parady haha
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 14 pts · 199d
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 199d
From an official account too. I fear people are not caring about how effectively they communicate anymore.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 199d
But not only did you understand what they meant, it got an extra 3 (4 including this one) comments on this post. Seems pretty effective to me.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 199d
Engagement bait isn't effective communicating, it's a large component of what's wrong with the world right now. Instead of sharing actual knowledge or being more careful with our words, there's an incentive to get it wrong on purpose because that's what the algorithm rewards. Let's all be better.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 199d
I'm sure it was just autocorrect anyway. It's just a ridiculous thing to get worked up about, thinking communication is getting worse, kids these days, etc
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 198d
It is certainly deteriorating, and effective communication is never a ridiculous thing to make a point of.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 198d
Do you have evidence that orthographic errors are signs of human communication "deteriorating", or is it just vibes?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
Monty Python's Flying Circus!
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
underisk@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 199d
Worked out for AJJ, kinda.
CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 199d
Haven't they since changed their name and apologized? I stopped listening to them after that
slate@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 199d
They changed their name to "AJJ" instead of the full previous name. Basically saying Andrew Jackson was a piece of shit and everyone already called them AJJ anyway. That was a loooong time ago now, like maybe a decade.
CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 199d
Yeah I know it was a while ago and that's when I stopped listening to them lol. I can't say I wouldn't have even if they hadn't changed that name though. I think I used that as an excuse to cover up the fact that I just wasn't vibing with them anymore.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 199d
Better than 'Zander Ingests Overly Negative Information Sounding Tired'
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
*its
edit: never mind, verdi already commented that 5 hours ago.
ShotDonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
Haha.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · -15 pts · 199d
This band is still hanging out at the online Nazi bar huh?
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 199d
The date in the image says this is from over 7 years ago, on 2018-07-27
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 199d
Good point, I did not look very closely. I wonder if they're still active there though, a crazy number of people and institutions are.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 199d
I assume that most institutions that are still active are only active to promote themselves, and mirroring the same content from instagram to X, and not actually engaging with the fans like in the early days of Twitter.
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 199d
You're greatly overestimating the general public's knowledge of Musk.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 199d
It's still a bar run by a Nazi, i.e. a Nazi bar, even if many of the customers are ignorant.
village604@adultswim.fan · 0 pts · 199d
That wasn't a justification, just a reason why people still use it.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 198d
A lot of these are more than general public, they're institutions, corporations, organizations, and people who should (and probably do) know better.
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 198d
Right, they go where the people are.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 198d
They went from 429 million to 250 million in under a year, I would challenge that assumption.
Additionally, a Nazi bar is still a fucking Nazi bar. I don't see why anyone should look favorably on that, do you?
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 198d
Do you not think 250 million people is a lot?