The year is 2003, you and your best friend just walked home from your first day of 7th grade, there’s Capri Sun in the fridge, bagel bites in the freezer, and a new episode of Teen Girl Squad on homestarrrunner.com. You boot up the Gateway in the computer room and listen to the sweet sweet noise of calling the internet through copper wire.
After what feels like an eternity, you’re in.
You hear the familiar sounds of a creaky door opening, your friends list loads, and all of your loved ones are in one place, at the click of a button, on AOL Instant Messenger. But the bagel bites are still warm and we still need to find out where the frick Thomas the alien came from, so we throw on an away message… but there are so many options. So many cool songs.
What do we want our away message to say about us? What do we want our away message to say to others? To “the one”…. We draft those picks in this week’s episode.
BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!
Links:
The AIM Lyric Draft Playlist on Apple Music
The AIM Lyric Draft Playlist on Spotify
The Reason by Hoobastank episode
Songs of the week:
All Eyes on Me by Bo Burnham
Late Reply by Keep Flying
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Shane Drake, legendary music video director for emo acts such as Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Hawthorne Heights, The Rocket Summer, and Forever the Sickest Kids stops by to answer all of our burning questions about what it was like to be on set with some of our biggest heroes.
We are honestly stunned this interview even happened, and we’re more shocked at the level of intimate detail he provided for each music video we talked about. There are tons of behind-the-scenes looks at everything from early 2000's screams acts like Underøath, all the way up to directing music videos for American Idol, and his transition into the country scene.
Tons of great detail that you won’t be able to find anywhere else, and I’m just not sure what life we’re living right now because this is undoubtedly the coolest thing to ever happen on the show.
BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!
Check out Shane Drake’s work below:
Shane’s Music Videos Mentioned:
-listen to the Pressure episode!
I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! at the Disco
-listen to the I Write Sins Not Tragedies episode!
But It’s Better If You Do by Panic! at the Disco
Nine In The Afternoon by Panic! at the Disco
Ready To Go by Panic! at the Disco
Bullet to Binary by mewithoutyou
When the Sun Sleeps by Underøath
Ohio Is For Lovers by Hawthorne Heights
So Much Love by The Rocket Summer
-listen to the So Much Love episode!
Whoa Oh (Me vs Everyone) by Forever The Sickest Kids
-listen to the Whoa Oh (Me vs Everyone) episode!
-check out our article about the Whoa Oh music video!
The Queen and I by Gym Class Heroes
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“In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.” (source: Wikipedia, obviously)
There may be no other dualism like the song for Buried a Lie and the music video for Buried a Lie. The lyrics are intense, the stakes are high, and there’s been a murder. The music video on the other hand, while on paper follows the song to a T, reflects a kind of Scooby-Doo, daytime soap opera fever dream of sorts that is very entertaining to watch.
“The relationship between yin and yang is often described in terms of sunlight playing over a mountain and a valley.” If this video is the sun, the song is a valley of despair, but damn do they make one handsome mountain scene or whatever.
Links:
Songs of the week:
Kno U by Origami Angel
Bitter by Chunk! No, Captain Chunk
When The Upsides dropped in 2010, Tom and Pat’s world changed forever. Many nights were spent at terrible diners, across from a smoker’s section that did absolutely nothing to block smoke from traveling through the open air right into our scrambled eggs, talking about a pop punk band from South Philly and how it can’t possibly get any better than this.
We dive into the music video for Melrose Diner and break down every scene of this glorious reel of film that features the crazy talented and super hilarious Charlie Sexton.
BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!
Links:
MTV Is Over, If You Want It by We Are the Union
Living Room Song Acoustic Live Video
Songs of the week:
Bring Me Down by We Sere Sharks
Phone’s Dead by Stage Moms
Hidden Colors by Broadside
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