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| The Audacity of Papa Roach
Listened to the new Papa Roach album the other day and well... view my rant below | | 1 |  | Papa Roach
Ego Trip
Gonna keep this as brief as possible. I enjoy most of Papa Roach's output up to Crooked Teeth; it's not my favorite but it's fun, generally competent heavy rock music. From Crooked Teeth on I'm pretty sure this band has been absolutely deadset on recreating Infest and rejuvenating album sales. Crooked Teeth tried to be Infest 2.0, Who Do You Trust? tried to me Imagine Papa Roach Dragons... and Ego Trip is basically "let's do Infest but exclusively for clueless zoomers who don't know any better". That's bad enough... | | 2 |  | Papa Roach
Emo Trip
But it's nowhere near as bad as the blatantly manipulative and desperate tactics this band is using to stay afloat. Never mind that they've now released Last Resort more times than I'll probably have sex in the next year, never mind that they released and fucking re-released the singles Ego Trip in just about as many pointless ways as they could... on the exact same day that Ego Trip came out, this band released the 7 song EP Emo Trip. Three of the songs are old hits re-recorded (can you guess one of them?!?), AND THE OTHER FOUR ARE LITERALLY THE SAME VERSION OF SONGS FROM THE FULL-LENGTH ALBUM THAT CAME OUT THE SAME FUCKING DAY. | | 3 | | Papa Roach
Ego Trip
I'm so fucking pissed, I brought some fucking receipts. "Kill The Noise" (the only fucking song from this shitshow I genuinely enjoy) has now been released 5-6 times, including on the full-length LP itself. "No Apologies" has now been released 4-5 times. And that's (A) being really fucking generous because I'm not counting everytime Spotify slathered this shit on top of another single and (B) not even all of the songs that were released more than once. | | 4 | | Papa Roach
Emo Trip
Look there are worse things in the world than a clearly washed-up rock band giving so little of a shit about their fans that they release, ON THE SAME GODDAMN DAY, an album and then an EP that is ALL SHIT WE'VE ALREADY HEARD BEFORE AND NEARLY HALF OF IT IS ON THE ALBUM THAT CAME OUT THE SAME DAY. I recognize that. | | 5 | | Papa Roach
Ego Trip
But say what you will about Disturbed's new mediocre outing, or Five Finger Death Punch's new horrific outing, or fuck it, even Shinedown's less-than-impressive-but-pretty-ok new outing, those bands AT LEAST had the tact not to literally throw their middle fingers up to the fanbase and say "fuck you, we literally care so little about you and think so lowly of you, that we are going to boldly and proudly just re-release the same shit—AS IN LITERALLY THE SAME SONGS— over and over cause you're an idiot and you won't notice anyways. Now fuck off and listen to the 69th version of 'Last Resort'". | | 6 | | Papa Roach
Emo Trip
Sad fucking thing is, I've been a pretty consistent late-era Papa Roach defender.The Connection and F.E.A.R were solid enough, I enjoyed the electronic elements. But those were released back when the band didn't have to fucking re-release "Last Resort" with every Tom, Dick, & Jane mumble rapper to gain relevance. | |
cycosynner
11.28.22 | Ok in all seriousness, while this album did piss me off, I'm currently in the throes of law school finals so I needed the stress relief of this rant.
Radio rock isn't my absolute favorite, but I don't go nearly as hard on it as most of this site. This kind of shit pisses me off because this is the kind of garbage that gives good radio rockers a bad name. It's lazy, it is uninspired, and it is clearly trying to pander to clueless Gen Z kids who (by no moral or intellectual failing of their own) simply haven't heard early-or even earlier-P-Roach and just don't know that this band can do better. Really not a fan of how little this group seems to respect their fanbase. | onionbubs
11.29.22 | they made an album in audacity? | Vercetti
11.29.22 | While I'm also disappointed by Ego Trip and annoyed by their way of re-releasing stuff, I don't think the new music is horrible. There were actually a few songs on the new album that I quite enjoyed (Kill the Noise, Leave A Light On, Liar). Some of the songs are really bad though (especially Swerve). Overall I wasn't really impressed by any new Papa Roach since FEAR, but I also didn't hate anything enough to rant about it. | Rolling Girl
11.29.22 | I don't follow Papa roach that closely anymore outside of their main releases and I have enjoyed some of their more recent output too.
While I definitely did not care for Ego trip myself, I will give them credit because it sounds like they've been having some of the most fun they've had in years. Plus the band probably has had more luck appealing to younger audiences than most of their contemporaries these days. I won't fault them for not putting out a lot of substance, they seem to be having a good time doing more of the corny rock music that Papa Roach has always done.
And at least Ego Trip was better than Who do You Trust | ToSmokMuzyki
11.29.22 | papa roach more like papa bitch | ToSmokMuzyki
11.29.22 | your way with words diddles me | ConcubinaryCode
11.30.22 | The 2020 versions sound exactly the same. Are the even re-recordings? | MoM
11.30.22 | Imagine Dragons are one of the most influential groups of our time. It only makes sense Papa Cucaracha would try to be unimaginably shit as well | ToSmokMuzyki
11.30.22 | cucaracha is the best word | cvlts
11.30.22 | Pos’d |
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