Could've sworn you made a video showing rock musicians saying they were ok with people not knowing the band they were wearing, now your mocking those people. How Duplicitous of you lol. Correction: Revolver did a video on this subject and bands were ok with it not Loudwire.
its called Cultural appropriation, and don't get it twisted Metal is absolutely a culture and it has all races and ethnicities within, but taking someones culture to make yourself look hip is wrong and out of context and disrespectful.
I was at the mall with my best friend ( we both are metalheads) and i'm wearing my Gojira hoodie. And this man, he is around 55 years old wearing an iron maiden shirt comes to me and says "now that's good stuff !". It literally made my day.
Hella bro... some of us elders of metal like to stay current and not get bored, you know? We find similarities in the new stuff that we might of heard in the past but taken to new levels and that makes us feel proud of you whippersnappers. Like, you may not know the "Gojira Scrape" and those type of rakes and squeals are ALL OVER the 1991 Forced Entry cd - As Above So Below, this I got around 1990 when we had a band in highschool and this college DJ lived a few houses down and gave me some free shirts and cd's and interviewed us on air!
You probably wear t-shirts with logos/names you know nothing about though. Everybody has such t-shirts, they got just because they looked good or were practical.
Right it just seems weird.. especially when people wear that smiley nirvana face shirt and then don’t know anything about nirvana or even who they are, sometimes it just bothers me but whatever nothing we can do 🤷♀️
I can't even think of One... I know - that's the unforgiven crime, but when I try my mind just fades to black... might be cause I drank that old whiskey in the jar. If I could just get some fuel for my car then I'm sure that wherever I may roam I would .... umm...... Can't think of a way to add Enter Sandman to this comment but I really want to fit it in... can someone else take over?
@@Jeffmetal42 If you really want to split hairs, it's a traditional Irish song - although Thin Lizzy's version is one of the more notable ones from the rock era.
I personally don't care who wears what, but I don't see how they don't feel ridiculous or embarrassed not knowing anything about what band they're wearing.
I’d honestly feel more embarrassed to be the pathetic loser getting triggered when a person doesn’t know the music behind the band. Let people wear clothes. When you see someone wearing Nike do you expect them to know the entire history of the brand? No. Because that would be stupid. This is just as stupid and it’s the reason why rock and metal are dead
I am a metalhead and I feel like if someone came out of nowhere, put me on the spot with a mic and cam, and asked me to name 3 songs from the band on my shirt, I would probably draw a blank as well.
I’ve been a Beatles fan my whole life. One day, I was in Times Square when I heard that Paul McCartney was going to be signing autographs at the virgin megastore. I happened to be wearing a Rolling Stones shirt and Paul told me “you know you’re wearing the wrong shirt?” I waited my whole life to meet this man only to look like a total poser in his eyes. To his credit, He was very playful when he said it.
You missed a great opportunity. You should've replied something like "What can I say. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan". Or, "Don't worry. I'm a geologist." To be fair I don't think I could speak if Paul McCartney spoke to me.
I totally blanked at first too, and I'm a huge slayer fan. I embarrassed myself in front of myself lol. Afterwards, I yelled out "GOD HATES US ALL", and felt slightly better
@@lincthomas7178 I'd rather they admit to not listening to the music but thought the merch was cool. I respect her honesty instead of pretending she's a fan.
imagine being at a concert and some random buffoon asks you about three songs and your social anxiety kicks in, you wouldn't even recall your mother's name
This is why i'm afraid to wear band t-shirts, like the thought of someone I don't know would come to me and pop quiz me on the spot with an agressive aura will definietly make me forget who even I am🤣
as said by james hetfield, everybody should wear whatever the hell they want, but it'll be an awkward conversation starter for sure ...i didn't expect this to blow up, cool; you should be able to wear whatever you want, but you WILL look like a dummy if you don't know what's on your shirt
Or perhaps dont wear merch of a band you dont know shit about. Posers are detestable in any fandom. Just a bunch of insecure fakes that want to leech on the fandom when it becomes "hip"
I really like the 1:06 guy, he didn't even know it was a band, he just liked the t-shirt and has no obligation to know that Slayer was a band, he's not 'pretending' he likes the band, he just likes the shirt.
also listen to the beat in the background, they're listening to reggaeton, of course you can't expect people there to know jack-shit about metal bands, it's a completely different community
We need a follow up with band reactions. Gary from Slayer/Exodus having a "Kill the Kardashians" shirt is fucking amazing, since one of them was seen in a Slayer shirt.
that is actually not true, it is however partially true. He does wear and sell a shirt with that text (aswell as other stuff), but the reason you are stating is incorrect. Gary is not wearing it as a respons to them wearing Slayer shirts etc. Gary's own words when he was asked about it: "I really don’t like them. [Laughs] They’re just really, really awful people. It’s not even so much them - I can’t stand that people are so fascinated by them. “People have nothing better to do in their day than to watch TV shows or read about them and follow them on Instagram or Twitter or whatever and stare at their selfies and looking how fabulous they are. Don’t you have something better to do? “And I wanna kill that. I don’t want to kill them. I just wanna kill their careers. I know that’s not gonna happen.”
I remember a classmate back in highschool who claimed that he is a rocker. He was wearing a shirt with Che Guevarra on it. Asked him if he knows him and he said that he is a rockstar.
@@kentucky_ken Okay, let's do a best story Battle. Back years ago when I was obligatory school, in the last day of music lesson the teacher asked us to go to the PC and put songs so others could guess. I'm a Metalhead, but I decided to go easy. I started REAAALLY easy. "Imagine" by John Lennon, manny people raised the hand and guessed right. Then I go with "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, everyone recognizes the style and raise their hand, the but they unfortunately say "Beat it" instead. That's not the sad part of the story. The sad part of the story is that just after that I put "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses. Nobody raises their hand except one guy, and do you know what he says? "I know it's Metallica, but I don't know the name of the song" I think this is enough to explain to you the situation with Rock culture with young (and even old) people here in the center of Europe. They're lucky I didn't put some Queensrÿche.. they would never have guessed, most Metalheads either.
@@necrom4454 amen. I also love metal. Love Slipknot, Korn, Deftones, Suicide Silence, Pig Destroyer, Pantera, etc. And yeah. Metal will never be a flavor of the month for normal people.
I was wearing a Judas Priest shirt at Home Depot and this old guy started grilling me. Little did he know they’re my favorite band and after a couple of minutes of listing songs he just left XD
It’s upsetting how this only happens to metal/rock bands. You’ll never see someone wearing a Billie shirt or any celeb that’s popular today without actually listening to them. So weird.
I agree, everytime i happen to wear either a rock or metal band shirt to school i get multiple people asking me to name songs,albums, etc. but it never happens to my friends with pop shirts 😭
@@DingoOverlord i think it's cool if they don't know who they are, i'd be like "yo that's a really cool band check them out" they can't be posers when they aren't even aware of what they have on lol
@@tooth9047 I agree in part, but that’s like wearing a shirt that has a political statment on it and saying “Oh I dOn’T kNoW wHaT tHiS sHiRt StAnDs FoR, i JuSt LiKe ThE pReTtY cOlOrS.” It’s disappointing when someone wears a shirt like that and you think you can build a connection with them on something you care so much about, only for them to have no clue what it means, not only in general, but also to you personally. It kind of makes you feel like your feelings about it are irrelevant.
@@rodjerdankist1125 I mean, he's banging Megan Fox. That's gotta mean something (also, why is it okay to use "homosexual" in a clearly derogatory manner?).
We can probably give the 2nd person who was at an actual show/fest a break. Don't be afraid to buy a shirt from a band because you liked their performance.
Slipknot is one of my favorite band but I’m scared to buy a shirt from them because people will call me a poser lol. My dad bought me a really cool metallica tshirt, it’s one of our favorite bands, we are going to the concert. I wore my metallica shirt to school one day and three people asked me to name songs and called me a poser. I just started spitting out songs and albums they’ve never heard of lmao.
@@jeeptoe it's a bad story of Metallica tees, the man in their tee can be a poser, or a real metalhead. i wear tee with four horsemen almost every day and don't care about ppl who think im poser, i'll name a hundred Metallica songs if they'll ask me to
I'm an old punk and in the 80's a friend of mine had written "suicidal tendencies" on his jacket. No shit and old guy came up to him dead serious and said "there's help for that". Not that we actually expected him to know it was a band but did he really think my friend would advertise that about himself?!
Dude, I was, and I kid you not, institutionalized in 6th grade for carrying a journal at school filled with lyrics, both original and those of bands I liked (before the internet was a household thing at my place, I wrote them down as I heard them), because my journal was covered in band names, the biggest of which was centered, bold and big as hell, my favorite band at the time, Suicidal Tendencies. Some people just don’t get it.
He is a poser, 'cus his first reaction when he was called out on it was to start giving excuses. If he would have said something like, oh they're a band? i have to check them out etc. then that would have been one thing. But he literally said that he doesn't care and that he is wearing it because he likes the print, which by definition makes him a poser.
I personally try my best not to gatekeep when it comes to people who don't know better about what they're wearing. But the one thing that grinds my gears are the people who once bullied those of us who wear these shirts that are genuine fans and are now wearing the same shirts because it's trendy. Yes, I lived through that and these vulture posers have it coming, so fook them.
@@KEYTV13 back in my day, people in general would look down on metalheads wearing those shirts (like myself). I even got stopped by two cops in a park who asked for my identification in a very aggressive manner, just because I was wearing a Misftis shirt and was just chilling in the park. And even to this day, I still have that Misfits shirt! So yeah, it is annoying to see people using those for trendy reasons, but people are free to wear whatever they want... I'll just laugh my ass off when they get called out lol
I think the reason I ‘gate keep’ metal shirts is because growing up and especially at school people would judge and bully me for listening to metal and then to have those same people start wearing band shirts just because it’s trendy really annoys me, idk it just kind of bugs me.
I feel the same way about skinny jeans. As a teenager in the early 00's the only skinny jeans I could get were from womens departments. Other guys would rip into me for wearing skinny jeans & the irony is now they make them for men & those very same guys are wearing them. (funnily enough I don't wear skinny clothing anymore)
Same here, i remember being ashamed to listen to the music i like because people in my school used to mock people with other music tastes. And now those same people are wearing the tshirts from bands they found "uncool" makes me kinda mad although i dont really care anymore
I get the point ppl should be able to wear whatever they want. What bugs me, is your wearing a shirt like your a die hard fan yet only bought it because its the "in" thing. Worst part about it, those of us who took the time to purchase, listen, appreciate the music get tossed into that circle of ppl that like the design or have heard of the name but are clueless to what genre they are, songs, or even if the band is still together. Wear whatever you want, just be prepared for whatever flack comes your way. I dont have a wide range of t shirts, hoodies or caps, but im familiar with their music. My playlists speak for me. 😏
Someone had a shirt that said I LOVE MY PET so I asked her what type of pet she has. The lady says "I dont have any. I found it on clearance at Walmart" We both bursted out laughing
Fun fact: I once got a free meal thanks to my Iron Maiden shirt. When ordering food the guy taking orders looked at me in a very condescending way (I was very young) and said: haha nice shirt. If you tell me the name of IM's first singer you eat for free. It was a nice meal lol
I had a free meal but for different reasons. The guy who took my order saw my Maiden shirt said "nice shirt, my sister's married to drummer in that band". "What, Nicko McBrain's your brother in law? That's gotta be fuckin' cool." "Yeah, s'pose it is" he mumbled. When the food came out he said my meal was on the house and to rock on. It was strangely surreal. I'll never know if he was legit related to Nicko, but I got a free meal out of it, so it was kinda cool.
It kinda pisses me off when the popular kids at school wear nirvana and ac dc t shirts when they don’t know they make music. But when I play their music in front of them they say oh that’s ass. The crazy thing is they’ll wear it again. The point of wearing a band shirt is to support that band. It’s not meant for posers to look “cool”
It literally says "I love this band and style of music". I bought a Misery Index hoodie then started listening to them and was like 'how have I never listened to this before' lol!
It's always a way for metalheads to recognize metalheads in public. "Like hey man cool Lamb of God shirt. Have you heard their new album?" and they respond like, "Uhm, what?" I don't always find gatekeeping necessary but if your gonna wear a band shirt at least know they are a band.
Yeah honestly I could care less these days about it. When I was in highschool it really pissed me off because I would be bullied for how I dressed and what I listened to but then popular kids would wear the shirts while only knowing the logo. Nowadays i am unbothered but it. If they would like to wear a shirt because it’s cool looking, go ahead! Don’t know the songs? That’s totally ok AS LONG AS they are not shaming or bullying anyone around them for liking said band on shirt or if they outright don’t like their music then it’s kinda stupid. But again that’s their issue. If they wanna get caught in a situation like this where they get quizzes and fail cuz they don’t know any songs or even know it’s a band, let ‘em, it’s funny when it happens :p Best thing I learned to do in school was focus on my own interests and self-expression and ignore those who are insincere about theirs.
Ok my 11 year old daughter, have Van Halen t shirts , kiss , aerosmith, motley crue , but she knows and sings some of the material and she uses my drumkit tryng to play , farewell kiss tour , i will take her ✌🏻🤘🏻
@@Daziesandconfuzed i fought in 1977 9 yrs old , cause some idiot in my class laugh about my kiss belt buckle and off course i was pissed 😡 , fighting, some friends at that age were fans of rock n roll , the other are forgettable and some had a gray and boring life , then in the 80s everyone was rock and metal , taking lps and cassettes in our backpacks, journey, rush , aerosmith, led zepp , stones , deep purple , thin lizzy just to record and hear that album 💿👍🏻
Once I saw this kid wearing a Stooges shirt so I walked up to him and then right past him because I couldn’t care less if someone knows or doesn’t know the band on their shirt.
@@chrislenox1812 yeah literally grown ass men are giving people strife over a t shirt with a logo or name on it. Just move on with your life and leave people alone.
I agree with you 💯 percent. I have about 150 metal t shirts and their not for fashion. I'm a true metal head and I love 80s metal every since I was about 7 years old. My older brother got me into all the good bands such as Anthrax, Exodus, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Megadeth, Merciful Fate, Prong, Sepultura, Slayer, and Testament.
Calling them "posers" implies that they even consider themselves fans, which they don't. The "metallic top" girl, she never claims to be a Metallica fan. "Calling her out" for not knowing their music is pointless when she never claimed to know them in the first place. Yes, it's inane to wear a band's logo or album cover if you're ignorant to the content. But they aren't claiming otherwise.
My girlfriend lives in the UK and I mentioned Breaking Benjamin during a talk once, and she had never heard of them. Music doesn't always transfer across the pond, so I fully see that in this whole deal. It's very likely she's seen that badass symbol with the 4 interlocking Bs, and it's objectively just a cool design. But I do think if you go to a concert in a shirt for a band you know nothing about, youre just setting yourself up to look like a derp
First off why would you buy a shirt with something you don’t know on it ? Second who doesn’t know Metallica? My grandmother knows who they are and it’s not like you don’t hear them on the radio or see them on tv, like I don’t waste my money on stuff like that because band merch is expensive so really they are making these bands Rich with their stupidity, I could of named that woman one Metallica song and told her I just did like people need to stop buying stuff just because they like the design because They look dumb they are far beyond a poser they are some Moron who act like picking up their phone that was already in their hand and doing a quick google search isn’t a thing like it’s really not that hard we live in the fandom era and the technology era like seriously I wonder if people know what nasa is ? Or do they just like the logo like people are dumb and ignorant.
This burns so band. As a Black metal head in the 80s I was bullied mercilessly, and hurt badly in Jr and HS. It kills me to have the same vapid people whom would have stood back and laughed at me or actively bullied me, wear the t shirts of the bands that helped me through it all... I mean these things SPOKE to me even now: Freezing Can't move at all Screaming Can't hear my call I am dying to live Cry out I'm trapped under ice
@@kylehoulihan3875 I think you misread his comment. He’s saying the same kinds of people who used to bully him for being into metal now just wear the shirts as a vapid fashion icon. Brainless idiots from generation to generation went from spitting on alternative type people, to wearing their band logos as a fashion statement event though they hate the music. It’s pretty fucked up.
@@OriginalKingRichTv I am not upset. Oh by the way, I'm also I'm a girl. I was talking about how as a Black girl it was exceedingly hard for me to enjoy Metallica and be proud of them, when everyone from the hip hop kids to the "non metal" folks used to make the lives of metal heads miserable. Back in those days those metal shirts meant a conscious rejection of fashion, pop music with glittery fake lyrics, and popular/Christian ideals. To wear a Slayer or Venom T shirt meant that you rejected the fake "mall" suburban lifestyle and music and everything that came with it. To use these T shirts as fashion is the height of idiocy. I'd say it's as stupid and clueless as the folks wearing Che Guevara T shirts because they look cool.
When I was a kid I got a Led Zeppelin shirt, but I didn't know anything about them, so I started listening to their musics and reading their history just so I could wear the shirt for passion, now they are my second favorite band lmao
As a woman and a metal head; I hate the “name three songs” thing. However I do only wear shirts of the bands I listen to. I don’t care that places like H&M stock band tshirts; they’re often cheaper.
@@1217rcc I do know the songs; and yes it is irritating to have middle aged men come up to me and demand I prove I listen to the band I’m wearing. It’s misogynistic and pathetic, and they don’t like the fact that the music I listen to is heavier than their shit most of the time
@@barryallen767 it's misogynistic because these guys do tend to do it to women way more often. A lot of these guys assume that women are just pretending to be part of certain sub cultures. It's like how some dudes in the gaming community assume that women are fake gamers. Some of these dudes treat these communities like its a boys club.
I've met a lot of people who genuinely don't listen to music that often or really know anything about bands or artist. It's not as uncommon as you think.
@@HenryKissingerisDead I listen to a lot of music. I would say my musical knowledge is above average. But there are still many bands, including mainstream pop artists, I know nothing about and couldn't name a single album or song. There are just far too many.
This IS NOT what a poser is... you can wear any shirt from any band, not know anything about them, and NOT be a poser. A poser is someone who actually pretends to be someone they aren't. These people were very honest that they didn't know what the shirt said.
i mean if you can't name a song you kinda have to do that, what are you gonna say 'i know them I just don't want to tell you?' its the only way to save face. they were pretending until it was no longer viable
Calling these folks out sometimes works for your advantage. One time I ran into this older dude in his 60s who had a vintage Laibach shirt on. I asked him about it and he had no clue. Found it in a thrift store. I was excited because it was a design I hadn't seen before and began telling him about the band. In the end he took it off and straight up gave it to me. Score
I have the same problem as the dude in the Slayer shirt. When I'm at home I could know most songs from bands I like, but if I'm talking with somebody or at a show and the band plays the next song my mind completely blanks on the names of the songs.
Exactly, it happens so often to people, especially when they're walking down the street or at a show, and some dude with a microphone and camera comes up and asks out of the blue. I have Slayer's _Reign in Blood_ and _South of Heaven,_ but it's been over a year since I listened to anything Slayer, so when that came up I actually tried and couldn't think of any other songs...
Aye, there's a difference between music fans and music nerds anyway, I've got bands I love and have merch but the way I listen to music is full albums start to finish, most times several albums together, so knowing individual track names isn't something I put any thought to.
That's why I try to only wear band shirts from more obscure bands instead of the mainstream ones. Real music fans will always pick up on the shirt and comment.
But if you know the music of the more popular bands, why be ashamed to wear the shirts? You actually know them and know you like the music so there shouldn't be any shame in wearing it. If someone tried to ask you to name songs, it wouldn't be a problem for you and at best, you can have a music geek moment with another person who likes the band
@@ligmaballs2022 To me yes because I never heard of them or saw anyone wearing their shirts when I was a kid growing up, didn't run into any kids in middle school or high school who wore their band shirt or knew of them neither and I lived in SoCal so not a small town. I understand that they more than likely were known with people who were into Post-Punk, Goth, Indie, or 80s music but I mean let's be real, outside of your friends who may know them, how often do you come across people who know who they are?
@@sypens Again, where I grew up, in the early 2000s, i didn't see my peers talking about them or wearing their merch. They knew Morrissey but Joy Division? Not really.
The Kanye West one is irrational, he may be into metal or not, but there was nothing conclusive at all, being a hit in popular music means nothing about your tastes. This video definitely appeals to a certain crowd, the judgemental metalhead who thinks they're an elite musical fan.
exactly. that Testament band member seemed pretty out of touch, essentially calling Kanye a puppet of the celebrity culture while at the same time assuming whatever is said about him through the media to be true.
In some of these people’s defense... being put on the spot and asked questions, especially on camera and by a stranger, could make anyone blank. Every time, for example, someone asks me my favorite song or album I blank. Not because I don’t know any songs or albums, of course I do, everyone does, but because being put on the spot forces you to be decisive under pressure. That’s hard when you haven’t really had to think hard about the question before or maybe haven’t had to narrow down your options before. Years ago, when I was 11 y/o I wanted to go to a concert of one of my favorite bands. I knew I wouldn’t be taken seriously and my parents wouldn’t believe that at my age I was actually into a band from the 70s/80s. I told my dad I loved *Journey* and he hit me with the classic “Name 3 songs....” and I, someone who was obsessed with this band and somewhat knowledgeable about their discography completely blanked, couldn’t name one song in that moment. Even watching this video... when the guy was asked to “Name 3 Motley Crue songs” I blanked after thinking of “Home Sweet Home” and I know more Motley Crue songs than that... lmfao¡!
Yeah, if give that to the Slayer guy who at least popped off with "Raining Blood" and "Angel of Death". Honestly I couldn't even remember a third one... well that wasn't also "something something blood" anyway. Also to be fair I listen to them the least of the "Big 4" by a pretty significant margin though so...
@@1lastthing285 😂😎I’m glad you’ve never experienced a single lapse of memory in your life. Blanking out sucks. Oh the things I’d be able to do if I was superhuman like you and could recall anything and everything at anytime.
As a metal head what upsets me is, its our culture and our way to meet and talk to other metalheads and showing our support of our favorite bands. When someone who is not in our tribe wears a band t shirt and you work up the courage to go talk to em and they dont know who or what your talking about.... it feels like they are shitting on the one thing that brings you joy. For me when I wear a band shirt its me saying hey this is what I care about and support. It is a signal to other metalheads you are not alone here.
@@CHlODOS i agree, ill never give someone shit for wearing a band shirt but makes me sad when i think i found someone with similar interests and they just see it as a fashion statement :c
@@77bones That's fine lol. I just hate when people gatekeep clothes. It's literally a piece of fabric, and if they don't know anything about the band, maybe talk them into it instead of sulking. That's what I would do. It's a lot less douchey than pitching a fit.
Yes, this is very true. Anytime I wear one of my favorite metal bands shirts I always have a secret hope somebody will say 'F yeah 🤘!' and a great conversation will ensue. It rarely happens, but I did find out my eye doctor is a huge black metal fan and told my kid they had been taught well to already be wearing a Slipknot shirt at a young age. They now have expanded into Viking, Doom and Death metal 😎 so proud 🖤
I literally never want to speak to anyone about metal in public ever because they're literally always absolute fucking psychos. It's really interesting how the venn diagram of people who still think wave one thrash and death metal bands are the best/actually wear those shirts and people who would be like DO YOU REALLY LIKE METALLICA THOUGH?? is just a fucking circle. If you're not just silently, mentally nodding at the person you saw wearing a Blood Incantation shirt or something you're a freak lol.
The dude at 1:05 clearly just liked the t-shirt and didn't even know it was a band. I really don't see how that makes him a poser. He even admits to not knowing the band at all, without any hesitation. Not a poser in any way.
i don't think that's necessarily true. like i can absolutely see people "my dad went to NY and all i got was this lousy t-shirt"-ing band shirts 20,30,40 years ago. only difference is big name bands like Metallica, Ramones, Nirvana, Sex Pistols etc. now also get their merch sold in H&M and other mainstream clothing brands.
bro paul you peeked in highschool in like 86 and still think the good ol days were parents allowing their kids to drink cause you think it adds character or something
Can't really blame people like the Slayer guy. First of all it looks badass and it's just a word, he put his own definition to it and that's respectable, maybe now he'll check them out?
This is kinda shitty to do to people. I know because it happened to me in middle school, but they’d ask me to name punk band’s songs (my bully would ask me to name like 5 songs.) When I’d only be able to name 2-3 songs, they’d scream, “POSER!” It hurt sooo bad because I was head over heels in puppy love with one of my bullies. Then I started high school and would tease baby punks the same way I was teased, and I hate myself for that every single day. Calling people ‘posers’ for wearing a shirt they like, is lame. They might like the art, or heard just one song and became a fan. I’m still very specific about the band shirts I buy, because in my mind I’m still a self conscious nerd, afraid to be called ‘poser.’
Oh sweetheart, I know this post is old, but it is sincere, and thoughts like those don’t change easily over time. I’m just now reading it, and I feel those words because I love people, and I don’t want to hurt anyone, though I’m unafraid to if I have no other choice. Don’t beat yourself up over calling someone a poser so long ago. That doesn’t affect everyone the way it affects people like us. You were just a kid that wanted to be liked. In your own mind, that was your whole existence at the time. The fact that you care means you’re a good hearted person. The fact that you corrected your choices, despite your desire to be accepted, makes you a strong person. To have both of those attributes makes you a lovely person, and you deserve to be told that you are. That’s what matters. I go through the same emotions, and I get aggravated at myself for having been weak minded, as much as anything else, about certain things, as a kid. That motivated me to become a strong man, and I’ve made a living of helping people since then. I am the same with animals. I hope you’re doing something similar with your life, or that you have such a desire in your heart. It is one of the only things that can fulfill the life of a person that cares about others as much as it sounds like you do. It’s not the only thing that will fulfill your life, but it looms largely. These people are not bullies, they’re pretentious. That’s not metal. If my only two options, in life, were to be pretentious or an A hole, I’d prefer the latter. I think what they’re doing shows weak character. Anyway, thank you for being kind hearted.
Or just simply only like 3 songs. I've had some non metal band that I only like exactly 3 of their songs despite listening to their entire discography several times.
Calling out posers has absolutely been apart of Metal culture since there was a metal culture. You're either full of crap, or you've never hung within the community. Anything that has anything to do with "counter culture" there are always going to be pretenders, and I think it's fair to call them out. I'm not saying you have to be a huge fan of a band to wear their shirt. But to wear a bands shirt when you DON'T EVEN LISTEN TO THE GENRE OF MUSIC is just douche to the extreme. Like pop stars wearing band shirts. Sure, maybe some of them listen to them. I could actually believe Kanye West listens to Testament, or at the very least, has heard some of their songs, since he's a music producer and not just a rapper/pop star. But Kim Kardashian? Like come dude, you know damn well Kim Kardashian is driving down sunset ave blasting Master of Puppets.
Nah the fuck it's not. Letting this shit fly brings metal into the mainstream which, if you haven't read up on the main idea of metal, is the total opposite of what metal is.
@@gleebgoob Not sure what rock you’ve been living under, but if they sell Slayer, Motorhead, and Metallica shirts in Walmart, Urban Outfitters, and H&M then metal is already mainstream and has been for decades.
@@Thaddeustheimpaler it's mainstream because posing advocates like you are okay with it. It's fuckin annoying. At the very least black metal has remained pretty underground. Hope to keep it that way.
Try that line of reasoning with a Swastika or a yellow star or profanity. To not know a band's name and imagine or think or guess-you insert your own word into the orifice-and then decide its a 'fashion' brand is silly. I have to admit though, that I have no understanding of human nature where a-basically poor person-will wear a t-shirt with the name of a fashion brand whose products sell for 1000s of dollars. It's a 5 dollar t-shirt!
A girl i work with had a Metallica and justice for all shirt on one time and i was like "i love that album" and she just looked at me with a clueless look on her face, and i said "oh you dont listen to them" and playfully called her a poser and she got pissed and accused me of being a poser, i then proceeded to show her my and justice for all tattoo on my leg and spent the day rambling off random facts about the album.
In 8th grade I wore a metallica shirt to gym and my coach who you would least expect to like rock at all complimented the shirt saying it was his favorite band and that he saw the in ‘89. What a moment
This does burn me up too. However, I get targeted alot for wearing band shirts cause outside of that, nothing about my aesthetic screams metalhead. I’m constantly having to prove myself. I’m aware I look/talk/dress like a rapper but I’m a guitarist in a Death Metal band 😂 it doesn’t have a “look”
Ya, this. If my tats are covered you would NEVER know I'm a metalhead. This is by design of course, but every once in awhile I blow someone's mind when talking music.
I used to perform Goth/Industrial music, but don’t dress up in a way that you’d guess it. I always wear dark colors, but my clothes don’t have any band logos on them and I’ve never liked jewelry. I don’t “accessorize” at all, actually. No one would even talk to me at a club until they saw me perform. Everyone was happy to talk to me after the show. I felt pretty good when a someone told me their vampire chick friend said I was stuck up because I wouldn’t give her the time of day one time at a show. I was like, how ironic is that?
Many years ago at Hot Topic I found a shirt during their $5 bin clearance sale. (Forgot the actual name of it.) but the shirt said “at least I listen to the bands on my shirts. I was ecstatic when I found it lmao. Many years later, it doesn’t fit anymore. But I did cut out the text from the shirt to put on the back of a battle jacket I’m working on. Thanks for coming to my TED talk .
Imagine seeing someone wearing a metalband shirt and you're expecting them to be a fan of them so you start interacting with them and started asking but they don't even know that it's a band. For metalheads perspective it's like a cop wearing a fake badge and it will give us trust issues.
@@imfireproof YEAH LOL my friends make fun of the stuff i listen to all the time and then walk around wearing iron maiden and metallica shirts like they're a fashion brand
The thing is that, as a consumer, not knowing what you're ingesting makes you seem utterly stupid and yet... you've the right to be stupid. No worries... in a sense and at some point, we all are.
This is a brilliant reply. The height of idiotic consumerism is blindly buying without even knowing what you are buying into. Lulz let me wear Metallica shirt cuz it's cool looking.. oh wait let me wear a Free Epstien T shirt because the color and logo are dope and it's so "ironic" looking.
@@k.a.2241 difference between Epstein and Metallica is that Metallica has left mainstream knowledge long ago imho. If we're talking about the 10-30 year olds that usually feature in these videos
Well, there was this one classmate of mine that had a "The Dark Side of The Moon" shirt, my teacher asked him once if he knew Pink Floyd and he genuinely said "What the heck is even that?", and what's even funnier is that two days later I was wearing that same shirt and when my teacher spotted me he asked me that same question, after hearing my anwser he got genuinely happy.
I had a friend in high school that had an Iron Maiden t-shirt. His father bought to him because he thought it was cool. He didn't like metal, tho. One day, we were in a skatepark watching one of our friends skating, and then a huge guy with a huge beard saw my friend and screamed "IRON MAIDEN ROCK IN RIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and my friend only smile and made a thumb-up
Man, two issues with this that jump out. #1 You can be a huge fan without knowing the titles of songs. If you listened on the radio, if you listened a decade ago to an album that left a huge mark, etc. Unless you anticipate this question you may never think to memorize the titles. Music is sound, and thats the part people remember. #2 People panic under pressure. The "dumb" people in the Man on the Street videos are usually scared of looking foolish and end up blanking out. Its normal to forget things as simple as your mother's maiden name under stress. What this is is bullshit gatekeeping. Yeah, some people wear Nirvana shirts just because its in fashion... so what? If you feel pride in yourself for remembering the titles of other talented peoples' songs then you need a hobby.
Exactly. I can rarely name five of anything off the top of my head. My mind just doesn't work that way. I put a CD on and rock out to it. I'm not looking at the liner notes trying to memorize the names of songs as I'm listening to it. I'm usually too busy driving or doing other stuff while I listen.
@@roderickcortez138 you ever see the guy run up to a woman in the street holding a mic in her face and waving a dollar as a prize and he frantically says "Name a woman! Just pick one, name a woman! C'mon hurry! Name any woman!! Think!!!" And she just freezes in place lol. It's pretty amazing, but that's why it's called the "fight, flight or freeze" reaction. A lot of people forget the "freeze" part. It's easy to think people are dumb, but we all know that public speaking is scary, like commonly listed as the #1 fear, ahead of death, and performance anxiety and blanking are common knowledge, but we're so used to seeing trained charismatic people behind a microphone that we hardly know how a regular person would act under pressure on camera.
I don’t know why it bothers me but it does. It probably shouldn’t, but it does. I grew up in an era where you wouldn’t dream of wearing a shirt from a band that you weren’t a fan of. For the most part I only wore band shirts that I bought at the concert. It just seems strange to me to wear a shirt from a band you don’t listen to.
1:56 Kanye does actually listen to metal, he's worn burzum t-shirts and had heavy influence for the original cover of vultures before changing it, as much as I don't like the dude he isn't a poser
Metalheads be like: can't stand with toxic music fans, we don't have to prove wealth or status with our music. 2 minutes later: me and my bestie: "Embarrassing people for not proving themselves worthy and knowledgeable for wearing a cool piece of music merch"
LOL BUT FR. To be fair having to name anything on the spot can be hard, it’s just how humans are. I’ve been listening to Metallica for years and I couldn’t even come up with 3 songs in my head that fast. Reminds me of all those times men have tried to quiz me (and other women) on our knowledge on comic books and other forms of “nerd culture”. Just find something better to worry about lol.
I've come to realize that even though I listen to all of these (or a lot) if I was wearing a band shirt I wouldn't be able to name the songs Not because I don't actually listen to them, but because I'm stupid
Seriously, I hope someone comes up to me and asks me to "name 3 songs of from that obscure Japanese hardcore band on that shirt that you got at a show 10 years ago".
Nah man... people don't sit around looking at the CD sleeves reading every word of every song and the song title anymore while listening to the album like back in the day. I can sing along to a lot of songs but wouldn't necessarily know the song titles.
Exactly testament should see it that way unless of course you don't want someone like Kanye influencing what and how people feel about your band I mean they say there's no such thing as bad publicity but then there's Kanye giving you your publicity
My problem with it is when i see someone with a megadeth shirt i want to talk to them. And when they dont know him i ask why you wear it. Mostly those posers get angry then
I once went out to buy some beer wearing my S&M Metallica hoodie and the cashier told me i had awesome taste and i ended up standing there for about 10 minutes talking to him about it, and now everytime i see him he's like "Theres the Metal guy!"
I'm a Metallica fan, but I don't get upset when someone dont know what Metallica is. Art is about emotion, passion and sharing. Not about shaming those who don't know what you like.
Its like a fake cop wearing a badge. Turning a Passion into a Fashion? I call people out all the time, but I don't get mad or upset. Yes, people can wear whatever the hell they want. Nobody isn't saying they can't 😂
EXACTLY! the only thing that kinda pisses me off is when brands like h&m capitalize off of the bands name. All these Metallica shirts that they sell, theyre just using the band for money and i dont really like that.
I’m a metallica fan too, same as many other metal bands/rock bands, but i listen to so many different songs etc that if someone asked me to name a certain amount, my mind would probably go blank from the sheer amount of different bands i listen to etc. Gatekeepers suck ass
@@BlackenedMorgoth same lol, my music taste goes from metal, rock, 60s,70s,80s, over grunge, indie rock, permanent wave, over kpop and rap up to classical music lmao
I used to be a huge gatekeeper of the metal bands I love. Their music meant so goddamn much to me that I felt like nobody really understood them but me lol I used to meet other girls at shows in the nasty restrooms and see them with a Behemoth shirt on or something and strike up a conservation to find out that they didn't know them...it was usually their bf's shirt. And it pissed me the fuck off lol Then while out at a local show, I had a Cattle Decapitation shirt on and these two guys quizzed the fuck out of me about the band. I passed lol And they, like, accepted me and it felt like shit. So now, I don't give a fuck. Wear what you want. Like what you want. Because I know for goddamn sure metalhead guys think I don't know shit but i do. And I know that when I was young wearing Slayer shirts, older people thought I was a poser. It just isn't a big deal when you get to be my age lol Think of it as an opportunity to showcase that band to the person wearing the shirt...maybe make some new fans of the bands we love!
What is it about behemoth that is so deep and meaningful? They sound theatrical to me that’s it. It’s a genuine question, I’m curious about the concoction that makes people feel such way.
@@Yo_blob This is sort of weird, but in my experience - I think it really depends on what you start listening to - like you start listening to some album and then suddenly it blasts "Decade of Therion" song and it sort of catches the attention and you're hooked. And perhaps you listen to another album a couple of times and then you're a fan. Some people were remarking of it being odd that I liked "Dimmu Borgir" (they were considered quite the sellouts at some point) when I was young and I listen to their preference of "Carpathian Forest", "Cradle of Filth", "Immortal", "Satyricon" or "Behemoth" and I don't understand the appeal at all. But eventually turns out it was their first band and then everything else to them felt like it was derived from their original band.
I didn't get why people were guessing you were a poser or not a real fan then a saw your avatar and mine is just a model I like, but I saw your videos to confirm that is you. Its kind of sad people assume that since you were a girl probably you didn't know what it is you were even representing in your clothes. In fact you know more about metal than I do. The shirts I own are The Police, The Smiths and Ghost. And I can name almost every song by all of them and when those albums came out and the B-Sides even. And yes I have a diverse taste in music, from pop rock into metal. Now there are a lot of bands I would like shirts for I have just been too cheap to buy them that I do know enough about to be confident to wear them. I just don't spend much on clothes anyways thats why I only have 3 band shirts, I like to spend it on things like video games and other necessities and pretty much only when I have to get clothes is when I do I am not stylish at all as they say, and thats when the Smiths and Ghost shirt came into play as an excuse for needing new clothes anyway at the time, I got the other one at the concert.
@@ZiddersRooFurry They ain't being immature, they just like it when those folks find out it's a band and not a brand. It doesn't mean they don't like the fact the band is getting money from it. Thought, you're commenting under every post that doesn't agree with your own opinion, don't you find THAT behavior immature?
We all know the gatekeepers in our community when we are actually in it as metal heads. Who gives a shit what other people wear. People don’t get to choose the criteria for why other people choose to wear something. “A shut mouth catches no flies.”
I agree! Fuck them! This attitude is what is killing the scenes. It's gone from a genre of people refusing to wear a uniform and choosing to not care about others' opinions, choosing to just be themselves to this. Now you have to wear a uniformed black tee from an unknown liberal band with a logo you can't read screaming like cookie monster or it's not metal enough for them to tolerate you.
I am a 16 year old girl (gen z) and I love rock, listing to Metallica, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath almost daily and whenever I wear the shirts I get taunted on the streets and made fun of by teenage boys, so why is it when ‘normal’ people wear these shirts it’s so cool? I will never understand that.
I once saw a dude walking down the street in a Raiders jersey. I asked him what position he played. The dude wasn't even on the team. What a total poser.
I bet he knew the raiders were a football team and actually likes them though. That's the difference, no one is saying that wearing a band shirt means you're IN the band, which is the equivalent of the jersey comparison. Stop with the strawman arguments, you just look foolish.
This non sequitur is fantastic. You don’t wear band shirts because you’re in the band, you don’t wear jerseys because you’re part of the team. It’s a sign of identification with a group.
2:21 If she legit doesn't know Metallica is a band and thinks it's a clothing label that's kinda not her fault it's just a result of people turning band shirts into fashion items...
Funniest one to me is the student wearing the Twenty One Pilots shirt and then saying they're irrelevant. Other than it being humorous that he's even wearing it, it speaks to how fast people, especially kids in school, follow the crowd and move on from bands they once "liked" just to fit in because the groups only a couple of years older and not what their peers listen to anymore. As a college kid, I saw this on the regular in HS.
@@endowednigerian You just proved my point lmao. I used to be an elitist but I no longer care about shit because why should I waste energy on yelling at a stranger at the internet that happens to not know a certain band.
I'm from the hood and people question me all the time on my Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division and Lamb Of God T-Shirts. I never fail the 3 song test. I do think it's corny to wear something you don't know about but I can't afford to care about what someone who is obviously a poser wears. There are more important matters in life.
I have a shirt of the 3 Hanson bros in their prime and it says "Nirvana" underneath, and I like to test others when I wear it. These days so many people just go "oh yeah, they're Nirvana" and it is hilariously great.
One of the more important matters in life: how you casually say (and therefore by extension) accept you live in a "hood." Can't afford to care? Care is an emotion, there is no pricetag. Unless you are attempting wordplay? What is the difference between 'hood and poor area? Is it skin color? You say from the hood-did you move? Why would anyone voluntarily wear a 'swoosh' or a panther or a polo rider? Humans are slaves to brands. USA # 1!
@@aburden8580 ok semantic guy. Im from the hood. Meaning i live in a place of low income and higher in crime than other parts of the city. My hood happens to be mostly black which i didnt specify to you but considering the wide use of the term hood and what that usually entails, usually would suffice for a sane person. The reason i pointed out their race is because typically black people dont listen to Prog, Metal or New Age or any style of rock music. I also dress like most of us in my hood dress. I dont dress in the stereotypical way that most dress when part of certain scenes who actually might be from low income aress. A trailer park which is usually mostly hispanic or white is rarely ever considered at hood unless its actually in the hood. That said, I could be a seemingly easy target in this test. I dont fit the stereotype. As far as the word afford, I think you should look up what it means and see that i used it correctly just not in the context it is more often used in. This phrase was used in "Lights Out" by Breaking Benjamin (yes I like whiny poser bands too) and it was used correctly. Not affording something means you dont have enough of something to partake, endure, purchase or take on something else. That something is usually money but can also be time, energy and resources... pseudo intellectual sematic guy. Lol nah but very funny. It was even more hillarious when Carlin did it. Am i being an asshole?
people wearing metal shirts: *a great opportunity to introduce someone to metal since they obviously at least enjoy the aesthetic, which is a large part of the genre metalheads: “POSERS!” Some of these people weren’t even posers. They genuinely had no idea it was a band or artists a lot of the time. You can’t attempt to pose as a fan of an artist if you don’t even know the artist exists.
Plus just wearing the shirt isn't enough to be called a poser. If they were going around like "awh yeah dude I love this band lol" and didn't actually like the band and said it to look cool, that's an example of a poser.
The main reason I dislike non-metalheads wearing band shirts is identification. When I see you're wearing a shirt I assume you're a fan of that band, and therefore a fellow metalhead but when it turns out you're just a poser I get kinda disappointed. Wearing a band T-shirt as a non-listener is like infiltrating the metal network like a spy. It just creates unneccessary confusion.
A. the word "poser" died in the 90's. 2. there is no metal "network". metal fans can barely string more than 2 sentences into paragraphs and it's embarrassing to those of us who are intelligent ..and.. like metal. III. do you assume that I'm a fan of alligators just because I wear an Izod shirt? You're an ass clown.
I met this dude with long hair at a party this one time wearing a ride the lightning shirt. Given the long hair, I totally thought he was a fan but couldn't name one song outside of enter sandman :( I usually don't care when people wear the shirts but damn that one hurt my soul.
Yes, because these T shirts were a way of bonding with a very small (at the time) fan base. If you saw someone with a T shirt of a band you liked it was a conversation starter and a way to learn about new music... Ahhh the pre spotify/internet days
I was on the other side of a very similar encounter. Same tee. Hair to my ass. I was newly into Metallica, so despite owning "the black album" and having a smattering of MP3's (Napster bad), the only tracks I could name when accosted by some sad drunk at a bar were the ones I'd seen on Much Music a decade earlier "Enter Sandman" and "Until It Sleeps". I guess what I'm saying is fuck your gatekeeping ass for putting a black mark on an otherwise chill celebration at the pool hall. I could tell by your breath your favourite track was "Whisky in the Jar".
@@nsxgtrbeats wait so wearing a clothing item, because you think it’s cool and you like it therefore you wear it, is apparently bad. damn. you are definitely unhappy with yourself if that’s what bothers you, don’t worry thought everything will be fine in the end. keep going and it’ll get better
@@vavradaniel2662 the point of the clothes is to wear whatever the hell we want lol Be mad at the corporations that make money selling the shirts to the wrong demographic if you wanna be mad at something
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Could've sworn you made a video showing rock musicians saying they were ok with people not knowing the band they were wearing, now your mocking those people. How Duplicitous of you lol. Correction: Revolver did a video on this subject and bands were ok with it not Loudwire.
Mirvana
Mirvana? A true fan would know how to spell the band's name. Poser
“Mirvana “
Think this is BS, walking up to people can you name 3 bands can you name 3 bands? Only 2? Hehehe - assholes.
My default answer for name 3 Metallica songs:
The Unforgiven
The Unforgiven II
The Unforgiven III
and if they ask for 4
i suppose you would reply............ shit i can't think of ONE
LOL
Easy
😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂
That's actually Brilliant
The Unforgiven III is like The Godfather III, it doesn't exist according to the fans
Making a logo for your band that's so good that people buy it just because it looks fashionable is an absolutely amazing feat.
True, and good point. Like the album art off Unknown Pleasures, it's just so cool looking.
Based Kim jong un once again
its called Cultural appropriation, and don't get it twisted Metal is absolutely a culture and it has all races and ethnicities within, but taking someones culture to make yourself look hip is wrong and out of context and disrespectful.
@@DHKeltischWerWolf it’s not that serious bro
i dont thik thats what they were going for...
I was at the mall with my best friend ( we both are metalheads) and i'm wearing my Gojira hoodie. And this man, he is around 55 years old wearing an iron maiden shirt comes to me and says "now that's good stuff !". It literally made my day.
Hella bro... some of us elders of metal like to stay current and not get bored, you know? We find similarities in the new stuff that we might of heard in the past but taken to new levels and that makes us feel proud of you whippersnappers. Like, you may not know the "Gojira Scrape" and those type of rakes and squeals are ALL OVER the 1991 Forced Entry cd - As Above So Below, this I got around 1990 when we had a band in highschool and this college DJ lived a few houses down and gave me some free shirts and cd's and interviewed us on air!
not 55. just 43 and yeah gojira rocking the hell out for sure.
You reminded me I need to listen to their music again, I feel like a poser I can't remember their song names
big fan on gojira i can name most of their songs
@@donkey757 check out liquid fire if u haven't. sick song bro. by gojira obvs
I personally never wear shirts of bands I don’t listen to
Same bro
You probably wear t-shirts with logos/names you know nothing about though. Everybody has such t-shirts, they got just because they looked good or were practical.
@@peterwhitey4992 no actually I don’t. If I have a shirt or something with a brand logo I do research on it before I wear it
Right it just seems weird.. especially when people wear that smiley nirvana face shirt and then don’t know anything about nirvana or even who they are, sometimes it just bothers me but whatever nothing we can do 🤷♀️
@@AboutAGirIlllll agreed
Imagine accidentally hinting someone to name “one” Metallica song
😏
It's sad but true that I can only name one, but you know that nothing else matters.
I can't even think of One... I know - that's the unforgiven crime, but when I try my mind just fades to black... might be cause I drank that old whiskey in the jar. If I could just get some fuel for my car then I'm sure that wherever I may roam I would .... umm...... Can't think of a way to add Enter Sandman to this comment but I really want to fit it in... can someone else take over?
@@RQCKQN182 no
@@Jeffmetal42 If you really want to split hairs, it's a traditional Irish song - although Thin Lizzy's version is one of the more notable ones from the rock era.
I mean to be fair, metal bands make some pretty kick ass designs
if a guy wears a black metal t shirt or something. Almost none could tell what band of it is lolll
Sure, but half of them are barely legible, if at all lol.
@@ville666sora if you are talking about logos and not album covers
Metal double-album artwork used to be amazing.
@@hhIsTheBest you can tell what it is if you actually listen to it
I personally don't care who wears what, but I don't see how they don't feel ridiculous or embarrassed not knowing anything about what band they're wearing.
You don't know how to grow a beard but look at you go patches!
@@thirdmonkey I like how you didnt have any genuine argument to make so you just insulted his appearance. No so big brian my G
I’d honestly feel more embarrassed to be the pathetic loser getting triggered when a person doesn’t know the music behind the band. Let people wear clothes. When you see someone wearing Nike do you expect them to know the entire history of the brand? No. Because that would be stupid. This is just as stupid and it’s the reason why rock and metal are dead
@@BigOwl51 I agree with everything except the rock and metal being dead part.
No shame today.
I am a metalhead and I feel like if someone came out of nowhere, put me on the spot with a mic and cam, and asked me to name 3 songs from the band on my shirt, I would probably draw a blank as well.
Name 3 👕 songs 🎤 📸
because still you're a poser lol
I'm a hardcore/ powerviolence kind of guy and I can't name any songs by my favorite bands. I just noticed that I never look up song titles 👁👁👄
Same 😭
if this isn't the realest thing ever 😭
I’ve been a Beatles fan my whole life. One day, I was in Times Square when I heard that Paul McCartney was going to be signing autographs at the virgin megastore. I happened to be wearing a Rolling Stones shirt and Paul told me “you know you’re wearing the wrong shirt?” I waited my whole life to meet this man only to look like a total poser in his eyes. To his credit, He was very playful when he said it.
You missed a great opportunity. You should've replied something like "What can I say. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan". Or, "Don't worry. I'm a geologist."
To be fair I don't think I could speak if Paul McCartney spoke to me.
@@NormanTiner As a geologist, replying to casual interactions and questions with "don't worry, I'm a geologist" is what makes the degree worthwhile.
@@psilocinesthesia is it true that obsidian knives are the only way to assassinate a Geologist?
Could be worse. Paul Stanley of KISS made an Argentinean radio interviewer take off his Iron Maiden T shirt.
Don't worry about it. The Stones and The Beatles were friends back in the day. Paul McCartney is a Rolling Stones fan too😁
First slayer guy gets a pass, I've blanked the fuck out when asked shit unexpectedly.
he looked high as fuck too so he's alright
I totally blanked at first too, and I'm a huge slayer fan. I embarrassed myself in front of myself lol. Afterwards, I yelled out "GOD HATES US ALL", and felt slightly better
I hate Slayer and know Reign in Blood and Angel of Death.
@@robertcooney1938 ... no you don't. but you'd wear the shirt.
@@thebjisgreat lol honestly that was the only other song name I could think of (God Hates Us All), but I've never much listened to Slayer.
I love how he says, “can you name “ONE”” lol. Only true Metallica fans caught that.
@@ok9908 shes probably NEVER heard of metallica and bought it at a garage sale as she said, she has it coz it looks cool
@@ok9908 Ok 15 year old TeEnAgeR lol don't forget to pick up your medal at the front desk
@@lincthomas7178 I'd rather they admit to not listening to the music but thought the merch was cool. I respect her honesty instead of pretending she's a fan.
@@everythingiseverything9920 fair enough
@@brett8460 but she doesn't even know who Metallica is
imagine being at a concert and some random buffoon asks you about three songs and your social anxiety kicks in,
you wouldn't even recall your mother's name
True that!
"Nice Gauze shirt, name 3 songs"...... "no"
Have some grit, you little waste of space.
This is why i'm afraid to wear band t-shirts, like the thought of someone I don't know would come to me and pop quiz me on the spot with an agressive aura will definietly make me forget who even I am🤣
@@HopeJusticeottokajiken Just ignore them and give em the bird.
as said by james hetfield, everybody should wear whatever the hell they want, but it'll be an awkward conversation starter for sure
...i didn't expect this to blow up, cool; you should be able to wear whatever you want, but you WILL look like a dummy if you don't know what's on your shirt
That is true
Or perhaps dont wear merch of a band you dont know shit about. Posers are detestable in any fandom. Just a bunch of insecure fakes that want to leech on the fandom when it becomes "hip"
@@trollking6315 idk I think people just wear them for the design of the shirt
@@trollking6315 🤘🤘 kill all the fucking posers. Bonded by blood we are brother.
@@trollking6315 but what if they dont know its a band? i dont know much about american eagle but i love their jeans
"I dont know Ima slayer"
Your shirt should say DONUT then....
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@@twistedbutbliss9333 Ingwee malamutesteem?
I’m sure he’d slay your donut…
I really like the 1:06 guy, he didn't even know it was a band, he just liked the t-shirt and has no obligation to know that Slayer was a band, he's not 'pretending' he likes the band, he just likes the shirt.
Yeah exactly, by no means is he a poser.
I guess it's better than being a corporate billboard
also listen to the beat in the background, they're listening to reggaeton, of course you can't expect people there to know jack-shit about metal bands, it's a completely different community
@@BoleDaPole I never wear corporate logos, i got given some new logo trainers and ripped the tick off
@@juanvazquez5836 u can listen to multiple genres
To be fair, Metal and Punk bands have some of the best t-shirts ever made from a fashion perspective. They are just works of art in and of themselves.
We need a follow up with band reactions. Gary from Slayer/Exodus having a "Kill the Kardashians" shirt is fucking amazing, since one of them was seen in a Slayer shirt.
👍👍👍
That was fucking amazing
That is fucking awesome, I need one of those shirts
that is actually not true, it is however partially true. He does wear and sell a shirt with that text (aswell as other stuff), but the reason you are stating is incorrect. Gary is not wearing it as a respons to them wearing Slayer shirts etc. Gary's own words when he was asked about it:
"I really don’t like them. [Laughs] They’re just really, really awful people. It’s not even so much them - I can’t stand that people are so fascinated by them.
“People have nothing better to do in their day than to watch TV shows or read about them and follow them on Instagram or Twitter or whatever and stare at their selfies and looking how fabulous they are. Don’t you have something better to do?
“And I wanna kill that. I don’t want to kill them. I just wanna kill their careers. I know that’s not gonna happen.”
Could Gary name 3 Kardashians? 😂
I remember a classmate back in highschool who claimed that he is a rocker. He was wearing a shirt with Che Guevarra on it. Asked him if he knows him and he said that he is a rockstar.
lmao that's so cringe! XD
I bursted laughing, your mate's awesome! (at making other people laugh)
@@necrom4454 and me and my friends jokingly said "when will he launch a Che Guevarra unplugged"? Good thing he just shut up and smiled.
@@kentucky_ken Okay, let's do a best story Battle.
Back years ago when I was obligatory school, in the last day of music lesson the teacher asked us to go to the PC and put songs so others could guess. I'm a Metalhead, but I decided to go easy.
I started REAAALLY easy. "Imagine" by John Lennon, manny people raised the hand and guessed right. Then I go with "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, everyone recognizes the style and raise their hand, the but they unfortunately say "Beat it" instead.
That's not the sad part of the story.
The sad part of the story is that just after that I put "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses.
Nobody raises their hand except one guy, and do you know what he says?
"I know it's Metallica, but I don't know the name of the song"
I think this is enough to explain to you the situation with Rock culture with young (and even old) people here in the center of Europe.
They're lucky I didn't put some Queensrÿche.. they would never have guessed, most Metalheads either.
@@necrom4454 amen. I also love metal. Love Slipknot, Korn, Deftones, Suicide Silence, Pig Destroyer, Pantera, etc. And yeah. Metal will never be a flavor of the month for normal people.
I was wearing a Judas Priest shirt at Home Depot and this old guy started grilling me. Little did he know they’re my favorite band and after a couple of minutes of listing songs he just left XD
Lol also Judas priest shirts aren't trendy so....there's more chance ud know lol
@@philcanselmo9436 frfr
i can do that shit with metallica hell ill just start listing st. anger and watch em get confused.
@@hardwirecars or Lulu songs lol
@@philcanselmo9436 IM THE TABLE in home depot store seems fitting lol
It’s upsetting how this only happens to metal/rock bands. You’ll never see someone wearing a Billie shirt or any celeb that’s popular today without actually listening to them. So weird.
I had an NWA shirt once. I'm one of the few that likes both rap/rock. Metal is a little intense to understand
@@EnclaviousFiraga it can be, I agree. I just see it as more respectful to listen before wearing yk? Cause you never know who ur representing.
I haven't actually seen any kids wearing a Billie shirt
I agree, everytime i happen to wear either a rock or metal band shirt to school i get multiple people asking me to name songs,albums, etc. but it never happens to my friends with pop shirts 😭
@@gentlenight777 exactly! Like we get it, the logos are cool, but wouldnt it be smarter to know WHO youre wearing?
Honestly love this. I know bands can get free publicity this way but I hate seeing metal not get its true credit
Ikr
Same. It pisses me off when people wear shirts of bands they know nothing about
@@DingoOverlord i think it's cool if they don't know who they are, i'd be like "yo that's a really cool band check them out"
they can't be posers when they aren't even aware of what they have on lol
@@tooth9047 I agree in part, but that’s like wearing a shirt that has a political statment on it and saying “Oh I dOn’T kNoW wHaT tHiS sHiRt StAnDs FoR, i JuSt LiKe ThE pReTtY cOlOrS.” It’s disappointing when someone wears a shirt like that and you think you can build a connection with them on something you care so much about, only for them to have no clue what it means, not only in general, but also to you personally. It kind of makes you feel like your feelings about it are irrelevant.
@@DingoOverlord i can see what you're getting at for sure
The people who think MGK is "hard rock" are calling out other people for being "posers". Funny.
He’s like soft core punk pop
@@Vaedh He's just a homosexual, that's all.
Mgk sucks sick I stg he’s the worst
@@rodjerdankist1125 I mean, he's banging Megan Fox. That's gotta mean something (also, why is it okay to use "homosexual" in a clearly derogatory manner?).
@@rodjerdankist1125 Based.
We can probably give the 2nd person who was at an actual show/fest a break. Don't be afraid to buy a shirt from a band because you liked their performance.
Yeah, but all you gotta do is say that. "I'm new to the scene, but I liked the music, so I bought a shirt." Guaranteed no one is gonna give him shit.
i had a girl in my school wearing hoody with Slipknot, but she never even knew that slipknot is a metal band
Uncultured Swine, Slipknot is Nu-Metal and Istg I would’ve beat her down and take her hoody from her
@@astridhelga7450 lol same, now she understand. not bad girl tbh, but still poser.
They aren't
Slipknot is one of my favorite band but I’m scared to buy a shirt from them because people will call me a poser lol. My dad bought me a really cool metallica tshirt, it’s one of our favorite bands, we are going to the concert. I wore my metallica shirt to school one day and three people asked me to name songs and called me a poser. I just started spitting out songs and albums they’ve never heard of lmao.
@@jeeptoe it's a bad story of Metallica tees, the man in their tee can be a poser, or a real metalhead. i wear tee with four horsemen almost every day and don't care about ppl who think im poser, i'll name a hundred Metallica songs if they'll ask me to
I'm an old punk and in the 80's a friend of mine had written "suicidal tendencies" on his jacket. No shit and old guy came up to him dead serious and said "there's help for that". Not that we actually expected him to know it was a band but did he really think my friend would advertise that about himself?!
Dude, you gotta be kidding me XD
Hahahahaha!!!
Dude,you gotta he shitting me, really?
I would still be laughing at that shit.
Dude, I was, and I kid you not, institutionalized in 6th grade for carrying a journal at school filled with lyrics, both original and those of bands I liked (before the internet was a household thing at my place, I wrote them down as I heard them), because my journal was covered in band names, the biggest of which was centered, bold and big as hell, my favorite band at the time, Suicidal Tendencies. Some people just don’t get it.
ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI !!!
@@tyrranicalt-rad6164 AND SHE WOULDN’T GIVE IT TO ME!!!
i don’t think we can call the guy with the slayer shirt a poser i think he legitimately didn’t know they were a band
He is a poser, 'cus his first reaction when he was called out on it was to start giving excuses. If he would have said something like, oh they're a band? i have to check them out etc. then that would have been one thing. But he literally said that he doesn't care and that he is wearing it because he likes the print, which by definition makes him a poser.
He will receive no parlay
dude was funny as hell “idk, i’m a slayerrrr”
@@TheMostEccentric yeah that was pretty funny, got to give him that one
@@johanbatcron1206 isn’t a poser someone who pretends to like shit to seem cool
I personally try my best not to gatekeep when it comes to people who don't know better about what they're wearing. But the one thing that grinds my gears are the people who once bullied those of us who wear these shirts that are genuine fans and are now wearing the same shirts because it's trendy. Yes, I lived through that and these vulture posers have it coming, so fook them.
People actually bullied others just for wearing a shirt with a band on it?
Fr dawg
@@KEYTV13 back in my day, people in general would look down on metalheads wearing those shirts (like myself). I even got stopped by two cops in a park who asked for my identification in a very aggressive manner, just because I was wearing a Misftis shirt and was just chilling in the park. And even to this day, I still have that Misfits shirt!
So yeah, it is annoying to see people using those for trendy reasons, but people are free to wear whatever they want... I'll just laugh my ass off when they get called out lol
Ikr 👊🏻💪🏻🤘🏻💋🇺🇸
Nothing pisses me off more than seeing some girl from my high school who bullied me for being goth now dressing "goth."
The saddest thing about people who wear Metallica tshirts, but have never listen to the band, is that they are missing out on some really epic music
Only if we're talking about their first 4. Everything after that is irrelevant and derivative.
FACCCCTSSS! Like it's fine if they wear the shirt, but you really should check it out! One of my favorite bands, gotta say.
Exactly! If you're gonna wear the shirt, at least listen to some of it! It's good music!
@@fleatactical7390 im pretty sure your completely wrong take on this is more irrelevant xd
@@t0m1k33 Ask any true Metallica fan which are their best albums.
I think the reason I ‘gate keep’ metal shirts is because growing up and especially at school people would judge and bully me for listening to metal and then to have those same people start wearing band shirts just because it’s trendy really annoys me, idk it just kind of bugs me.
I feel the same way about skinny jeans. As a teenager in the early 00's the only skinny jeans I could get were from womens departments. Other guys would rip into me for wearing skinny jeans & the irony is now they make them for men & those very same guys are wearing them. (funnily enough I don't wear skinny clothing anymore)
Same here, i remember being ashamed to listen to the music i like because people in my school used to mock people with other music tastes. And now those same people are wearing the tshirts from bands they found "uncool" makes me kinda mad although i dont really care anymore
I get the point ppl should be able to wear whatever they want. What bugs me, is your wearing a shirt like your a die hard fan yet only bought it because its the "in" thing. Worst part about it, those of us who took the time to purchase, listen, appreciate the music get tossed into that circle of ppl that like the design or have heard of the name but are clueless to what genre they are, songs, or even if the band is still together. Wear whatever you want, just be prepared for whatever flack comes your way. I dont have a wide range of t shirts, hoodies or caps, but im familiar with their music. My playlists speak for me. 😏
Exactly!!
Hell yeah.
Someone had a shirt that said I LOVE MY PET so I asked her what type of pet she has. The lady says "I dont have any. I found it on clearance at Walmart" We both bursted out laughing
😂
asshole in me would have said , well Human but i also call her my wife haha
Fun fact: I once got a free meal thanks to my Iron Maiden shirt. When ordering food the guy taking orders looked at me in a very condescending way (I was very young) and said: haha nice shirt. If you tell me the name of IM's first singer you eat for free. It was a nice meal lol
That's awesome
I had a free meal but for different reasons. The guy who took my order saw my Maiden shirt said "nice shirt, my sister's married to drummer in that band".
"What, Nicko McBrain's your brother in law? That's gotta be fuckin' cool."
"Yeah, s'pose it is" he mumbled.
When the food came out he said my meal was on the house and to rock on.
It was strangely surreal. I'll never know if he was legit related to Nicko, but I got a free meal out of it, so it was kinda cool.
I hope you said Paul Day, not Paul Di'anno! :D
Imagine he said Robert Plant and the guy didn’t know either so he still gave him a free meal lol
@@bennybonilla2864 Isn't he the lead singer for Greta Van Fleet?
I don't even listen to Slayer and I can name 4 songs 💀
That signals that you at least gave them a try and maybe learned that they just weren't for you. Totally normal too.
@@KaiDecadence Actually I only fully listened to one song, the rest I know 5 seconds that I listened in a compilation
I can do the same with Megadeth, because my mother listens to them 😂
Same here!! 😂
Same
It kinda pisses me off when the popular kids at school wear nirvana and ac dc t shirts when they don’t know they make music. But when I play their music in front of them they say oh that’s ass. The crazy thing is they’ll wear it again.
The point of wearing a band shirt is to support that band. It’s not meant for posers to look “cool”
It literally says "I love this band and style of music". I bought a Misery Index hoodie then started listening to them and was like 'how have I never listened to this before' lol!
It's always a way for metalheads to recognize metalheads in public. "Like hey man cool Lamb of God shirt. Have you heard their new album?" and they respond like, "Uhm, what?" I don't always find gatekeeping necessary but if your gonna wear a band shirt at least know they are a band.
Yeah honestly I could care less these days about it. When I was in highschool it really pissed me off because I would be bullied for how I dressed and what I listened to but then popular kids would wear the shirts while only knowing the logo.
Nowadays i am unbothered but it. If they would like to wear a shirt because it’s cool looking, go ahead! Don’t know the songs? That’s totally ok AS LONG AS they are not shaming or bullying anyone around them for liking said band on shirt or if they outright don’t like their music then it’s kinda stupid. But again that’s their issue. If they wanna get caught in a situation like this where they get quizzes and fail cuz they don’t know any songs or even know it’s a band, let ‘em, it’s funny when it happens :p
Best thing I learned to do in school was focus on my own interests and self-expression and ignore those who are insincere about theirs.
Ok my 11 year old daughter, have Van Halen t shirts , kiss , aerosmith, motley crue , but she knows and sings some of the material and she uses my drumkit tryng to play , farewell kiss tour , i will take her ✌🏻🤘🏻
@@Daziesandconfuzed i fought in 1977 9 yrs old , cause some idiot in my class laugh about my kiss belt buckle and off course i was pissed 😡 , fighting, some friends at that age were fans of rock n roll , the other are forgettable and some had a gray and boring life , then in the 80s everyone was rock and metal , taking lps and cassettes in our backpacks, journey, rush , aerosmith, led zepp , stones , deep purple , thin lizzy just to record and hear that album 💿👍🏻
Once I saw this kid wearing a Stooges shirt so I walked up to him and then right past him because I couldn’t care less if someone knows or doesn’t know the band on their shirt.
That's because your intellect continued to develop beyond the age of 15, and you became a well adjusted adult.
fax!
based asf
@@chrislenox1812 yeah literally grown ass men are giving people strife over a t shirt with a logo or name on it. Just move on with your life and leave people alone.
chad metal enjoyer who dgaf about people wearing t-shirts they love
That one "metallic" girl really trolled all of those people.
Name 3 songs from your profil pic 😂😂😂😂
@@davidblue78Dig Up Her Bones, Hybrid Moments, Halloween.
@@davidblue78Vampire girl, Skulls and Diana
@@davidblue78zombie girl, green hell, American psycho
@@davidblue78Saturday Night, Die Die My Darling, Scream
Okay, that Marilyn Manson joke was good. Classic metal music misdirection.
Yeah that one made me laugh ngl
Ya not going to lie it made me lolkmfdm
I'm a firm believer in the statement "Metal for Passion, not for Fashion."
You say that but thrash boys geek out and buy $300 vintage high tops,cause 80s and old school bro
Lol have you seen the fashion brand vetements rammstein hoodies? They’re going for like $1400
I agree with you 💯 percent. I have about 150 metal t shirts and their not for fashion. I'm a true metal head and I love 80s metal every since I was about 7 years old. My older brother got me into all the good bands such as Anthrax, Exodus, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Megadeth, Merciful Fate, Prong, Sepultura, Slayer, and Testament.
I can't forget Ozzy Osbourne!!!!
GWAR is and will always be my favorite metal band!!!
Calling them "posers" implies that they even consider themselves fans, which they don't. The "metallic top" girl, she never claims to be a Metallica fan. "Calling her out" for not knowing their music is pointless when she never claimed to know them in the first place. Yes, it's inane to wear a band's logo or album cover if you're ignorant to the content. But they aren't claiming otherwise.
Yeah, this boomer attitude is pretty cringe.
Yeah, this is so 2005
My girlfriend lives in the UK and I mentioned Breaking Benjamin during a talk once, and she had never heard of them. Music doesn't always transfer across the pond, so I fully see that in this whole deal.
It's very likely she's seen that badass symbol with the 4 interlocking Bs, and it's objectively just a cool design.
But I do think if you go to a concert in a shirt for a band you know nothing about, youre just setting yourself up to look like a derp
First off why would you buy a shirt with something you don’t know on it ? Second who doesn’t know Metallica? My grandmother knows who they are and it’s not like you don’t hear them on the radio or see them on tv, like I don’t waste my money on stuff like that because band merch is expensive so really they are making these bands Rich with their stupidity, I could of named that woman one Metallica song and told her I just did like people need to stop buying stuff just because they like the design because They look dumb they are far beyond a poser they are some Moron who act like picking up their phone that was already in their hand and doing a quick google search isn’t a thing like it’s really not that hard we live in the fandom era and the technology era like seriously I wonder if people know what nasa is ? Or do they just like the logo like people are dumb and ignorant.
What's a fake fan?
I absolutely hate those people at my school that wear rock band shirts just because they look cool. Because as a true rock fan it pisses me off.
This burns so band. As a Black metal head in the 80s I was bullied mercilessly, and hurt badly in Jr and HS. It kills me to have the same vapid people whom would have stood back and laughed at me or actively bullied me, wear the t shirts of the bands that helped me through it all...
I mean these things SPOKE to me even now:
Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm trapped under ice
Clearly not the same people if they know who they are
@@kylehoulihan3875 I think you misread his comment. He’s saying the same kinds of people who used to bully him for being into metal now just wear the shirts as a vapid fashion icon. Brainless idiots from generation to generation went from spitting on alternative type people, to wearing their band logos as a fashion statement event though they hate the music. It’s pretty fucked up.
At first I read that as a "black metal" head and got confused by the Metallica lyrics. Then I was like oh a black dude who liked metal lol.
Metal is black. No need to state your race bro. Second let go off all that anger and be yourself.
@@OriginalKingRichTv I am not upset. Oh by the way, I'm also I'm a girl. I was talking about how as a Black girl it was exceedingly hard for me to enjoy Metallica and be proud of them, when everyone from the hip hop kids to the "non metal" folks used to make the lives of metal heads miserable.
Back in those days those metal shirts meant a conscious rejection of fashion, pop music with glittery fake lyrics, and popular/Christian ideals. To wear a Slayer or Venom T shirt meant that you rejected the fake "mall" suburban lifestyle and music and everything that came with it.
To use these T shirts as fashion is the height of idiocy.
I'd say it's as stupid and clueless as the folks wearing Che Guevara T shirts because they look cool.
When I was a kid I got a Led Zeppelin shirt, but I didn't know anything about them, so I started listening to their musics and reading their history just so I could wear the shirt for passion, now they are my second favorite band lmao
Who’s your first?
me with KISS but i don’t like them anymore 😭😭😭
@@nec9le I see now you like slipknot good choice
That's right... and that's how it usually happened
You had to know a few things about them to wear the shirt.
but also... the band would captivate you
As a woman and a metal head; I hate the “name three songs” thing. However I do only wear shirts of the bands I listen to. I don’t care that places like H&M stock band tshirts; they’re often cheaper.
because you can't name it lolol ☕
Well you got to know the songs, and its not even irritating they ask.
@@1217rcc I do know the songs; and yes it is irritating to have middle aged men come up to me and demand I prove I listen to the band I’m wearing. It’s misogynistic and pathetic, and they don’t like the fact that the music I listen to is heavier than their shit most of the time
@@dextervortexsungte5348 kid my music taste is probably heavier than yours 😂
@@barryallen767 it's misogynistic because these guys do tend to do it to women way more often. A lot of these guys assume that women are just pretending to be part of certain sub cultures. It's like how some dudes in the gaming community assume that women are fake gamers. Some of these dudes treat these communities like its a boys club.
That chick with the “Metallic-a” shirt has been living under a boulder at the bottom of the ocean
😂
I've met a lot of people who genuinely don't listen to music that often or really know anything about bands or artist. It's not as uncommon as you think.
@@HenryKissingerisDead I listen to a lot of music. I would say my musical knowledge is above average. But there are still many bands, including mainstream pop artists, I know nothing about and couldn't name a single album or song. There are just far too many.
This IS NOT what a poser is... you can wear any shirt from any band, not know anything about them, and NOT be a poser.
A poser is someone who actually pretends to be someone they aren't. These people were very honest that they didn't know what the shirt said.
exactly, thank you very much; you are absolutely right.
You deserve more likes on this one 👏
fair.
i mean if you can't name a song you kinda have to do that, what are you gonna say 'i know them I just don't want to tell you?' its the only way to save face. they were pretending until it was no longer viable
fr bro
Calling these folks out sometimes works for your advantage. One time I ran into this older dude in his 60s who had a vintage Laibach shirt on. I asked him about it and he had no clue. Found it in a thrift store. I was excited because it was a design I hadn't seen before and began telling him about the band. In the end he took it off and straight up gave it to me. Score
"Maybe if I give them this shirt they'll stop talking and leave me the fuck alone..."
@@wilky1189 exactly...he probably was a fan, but this nut freaked him out.
So you scored with him?
@@wadewatts5532 “he had no clue”
“And everyone clapped.”
I have the same problem as the dude in the Slayer shirt. When I'm at home I could know most songs from bands I like, but if I'm talking with somebody or at a show and the band plays the next song my mind completely blanks on the names of the songs.
odd..i can't get em outta my head all day
Exactly, it happens so often to people, especially when they're walking down the street or at a show, and some dude with a microphone and camera comes up and asks out of the blue.
I have Slayer's _Reign in Blood_ and _South of Heaven,_ but it's been over a year since I listened to anything Slayer, so when that came up I actually tried and couldn't think of any other songs...
@@sim7409 I get songs stuck in my head too, but not the name.
@@dylanfarley8136
yea that is true o me also
Aye, there's a difference between music fans and music nerds anyway, I've got bands I love and have merch but the way I listen to music is full albums start to finish, most times several albums together, so knowing individual track names isn't something I put any thought to.
That's why I try to only wear band shirts from more obscure bands instead of the mainstream ones. Real music fans will always pick up on the shirt and comment.
But if you know the music of the more popular bands, why be ashamed to wear the shirts? You actually know them and know you like the music so there shouldn't be any shame in wearing it. If someone tried to ask you to name songs, it wouldn't be a problem for you and at best, you can have a music geek moment with another person who likes the band
Real music fans? :/
Is Joy Division considered obscure?
@@ligmaballs2022 To me yes because I never heard of them or saw anyone wearing their shirts when I was a kid growing up, didn't run into any kids in middle school or high school who wore their band shirt or knew of them neither and I lived in SoCal so not a small town.
I understand that they more than likely were known with people who were into Post-Punk, Goth, Indie, or 80s music but I mean let's be real, outside of your friends who may know them, how often do you come across people who know who they are?
@@sypens Again, where I grew up, in the early 2000s, i didn't see my peers talking about them or wearing their merch. They knew Morrissey but Joy Division? Not really.
The Kanye West one is irrational, he may be into metal or not, but there was nothing conclusive at all, being a hit in popular music means nothing about your tastes. This video definitely appeals to a certain crowd, the judgemental metalhead who thinks they're an elite musical fan.
I saw M Shadows wearing a Yeezus hat, so yea I think you are right.
exactly. that Testament band member seemed pretty out of touch, essentially calling Kanye a puppet of the celebrity culture while at the same time assuming whatever is said about him through the media to be true.
The guy from Testament made me cringe hard... imagine being a grown ass man and gatekeeping that hard for no reason.
It was cringe af lmao just straight assumptions like he knew the man
This is high school for adults in a nutshell
In some of these people’s defense... being put on the spot and asked questions, especially on camera and by a stranger, could make anyone blank. Every time, for example, someone asks me my favorite song or album I blank. Not because I don’t know any songs or albums, of course I do, everyone does, but because being put on the spot forces you to be decisive under pressure. That’s hard when you haven’t really had to think hard about the question before or maybe haven’t had to narrow down your options before. Years ago, when I was 11 y/o I wanted to go to a concert of one of my favorite bands. I knew I wouldn’t be taken seriously and my parents wouldn’t believe that at my age I was actually into a band from the 70s/80s. I told my dad I loved *Journey* and he hit me with the classic “Name 3 songs....” and I, someone who was obsessed with this band and somewhat knowledgeable about their discography completely blanked, couldn’t name one song in that moment. Even watching this video... when the guy was asked to “Name 3 Motley Crue songs” I blanked after thinking of “Home Sweet Home” and I know more Motley Crue songs than that... lmfao¡!
Would you blank if someone asked you what 1+1 is, your home address, or what the ABC’s are ? It’s not that complicated of a question.
@@chunkylilpeanut that's not a general rule
Yeah, if give that to the Slayer guy who at least popped off with "Raining Blood" and "Angel of Death". Honestly I couldn't even remember a third one... well that wasn't also "something something blood" anyway.
Also to be fair I listen to them the least of the "Big 4" by a pretty significant margin though so...
@@1lastthing285 😂😎I’m glad you’ve never experienced a single lapse of memory in your life. Blanking out sucks. Oh the things I’d be able to do if I was superhuman like you and could recall anything and everything at anytime.
same
As a metal head what upsets me is, its our culture and our way to meet and talk to other metalheads and showing our support of our favorite bands. When someone who is not in our tribe wears a band t shirt and you work up the courage to go talk to em and they dont know who or what your talking about.... it feels like they are shitting on the one thing that brings you joy. For me when I wear a band shirt its me saying hey this is what I care about and support. It is a signal to other metalheads you are not alone here.
not an excuse to harrass people tbh
@@CHlODOS i agree, ill never give someone shit for wearing a band shirt but makes me sad when i think i found someone with similar interests and they just see it as a fashion statement :c
@@77bones That's fine lol. I just hate when people gatekeep clothes. It's literally a piece of fabric, and if they don't know anything about the band, maybe talk them into it instead of sulking. That's what I would do. It's a lot less douchey than pitching a fit.
Yes, this is very true. Anytime I wear one of my favorite metal bands shirts I always have a secret hope somebody will say 'F yeah 🤘!' and a great conversation will ensue. It rarely happens, but I did find out my eye doctor is a huge black metal fan and told my kid they had been taught well to already be wearing a Slipknot shirt at a young age. They now have expanded into Viking, Doom and Death metal 😎 so proud 🖤
I literally never want to speak to anyone about metal in public ever because they're literally always absolute fucking psychos. It's really interesting how the venn diagram of people who still think wave one thrash and death metal bands are the best/actually wear those shirts and people who would be like DO YOU REALLY LIKE METALLICA THOUGH?? is just a fucking circle. If you're not just silently, mentally nodding at the person you saw wearing a Blood Incantation shirt or something you're a freak lol.
For me.....
1. Being put on the spot would make me nervous.
2. I would immediately hate to skip over better songs while under pressure.
The dude at 1:05 clearly just liked the t-shirt and didn't even know it was a band. I really don't see how that makes him a poser. He even admits to not knowing the band at all, without any hesitation. Not a poser in any way.
There used to be a time when people wearing shirts with Band names on them were actual Fans of those Bands....but hey...Times are a changing😀!
Who cares? Seriously. So what. The band makes money and gets free publicity.
@@ZiddersRooFurry I actually don't care...that's why I added a smiling emoticon...
@@pauljansen1137 imo posers were more prevalent before. especially the 90s before google
i don't think that's necessarily true. like i can absolutely see people "my dad went to NY and all i got was this lousy t-shirt"-ing band shirts 20,30,40 years ago. only difference is big name bands like Metallica, Ramones, Nirvana, Sex Pistols etc. now also get their merch sold in H&M and other mainstream clothing brands.
bro paul you peeked in highschool in like 86 and still think the good ol days were parents allowing their kids to drink cause you think it adds character or something
Can't really blame people like the Slayer guy. First of all it looks badass and it's just a word, he put his own definition to it and that's respectable, maybe now he'll check them out?
i highly doubt it though since he literally said that he doesn't care
I hope he does or at least just read the lyrics to a handful of songs.
Yeah, it's all in good fun though.
This is kinda shitty to do to people. I know because it happened to me in middle school, but they’d ask me to name punk band’s songs (my bully would ask me to name like 5 songs.) When I’d only be able to name 2-3 songs, they’d scream, “POSER!” It hurt sooo bad because I was head over heels in puppy love with one of my bullies. Then I started high school and would tease baby punks the same way I was teased, and I hate myself for that every single day. Calling people ‘posers’ for wearing a shirt they like, is lame. They might like the art, or heard just one song and became a fan. I’m still very specific about the band shirts I buy, because in my mind I’m still a self conscious nerd, afraid to be called ‘poser.’
Oh sweetheart, I know this post is old, but it is sincere, and thoughts like those don’t change easily over time. I’m just now reading it, and I feel those words because I love people, and I don’t want to hurt anyone, though I’m unafraid to if I have no other choice. Don’t beat yourself up over calling someone a poser so long ago. That doesn’t affect everyone the way it affects people like us. You were just a kid that wanted to be liked. In your own mind, that was your whole existence at the time. The fact that you care means you’re a good hearted person. The fact that you corrected your choices, despite your desire to be accepted, makes you a strong person. To have both of those attributes makes you a lovely person, and you deserve to be told that you are. That’s what matters. I go through the same emotions, and I get aggravated at myself for having been weak minded, as much as anything else, about certain things, as a kid. That motivated me to become a strong man, and I’ve made a living of helping people since then. I am the same with animals. I hope you’re doing something similar with your life, or that you have such a desire in your heart. It is one of the only things that can fulfill the life of a person that cares about others as much as it sounds like you do. It’s not the only thing that will fulfill your life, but it looms largely.
These people are not bullies, they’re pretentious. That’s not metal. If my only two options, in life, were to be pretentious or an A hole, I’d prefer the latter. I think what they’re doing shows weak character.
Anyway, thank you for being kind hearted.
Or just simply only like 3 songs. I've had some non metal band that I only like exactly 3 of their songs despite listening to their entire discography several times.
I don't wear merch of bands/people I do not listen to. Simple.
Caring about what shirt someone is wearing is one of the most anti-metal things I've ever heard.
Interviewer is that one shit head at a party who annoys one too many people and gets sucker punched for it.
Calling out posers has absolutely been apart of Metal culture since there was a metal culture. You're either full of crap, or you've never hung within the community. Anything that has anything to do with "counter culture" there are always going to be pretenders, and I think it's fair to call them out.
I'm not saying you have to be a huge fan of a band to wear their shirt. But to wear a bands shirt when you DON'T EVEN LISTEN TO THE GENRE OF MUSIC is just douche to the extreme. Like pop stars wearing band shirts. Sure, maybe some of them listen to them. I could actually believe Kanye West listens to Testament, or at the very least, has heard some of their songs, since he's a music producer and not just a rapper/pop star. But Kim Kardashian? Like come dude, you know damn well Kim Kardashian is driving down sunset ave blasting Master of Puppets.
Nah the fuck it's not. Letting this shit fly brings metal into the mainstream which, if you haven't read up on the main idea of metal, is the total opposite of what metal is.
@@gleebgoob Not sure what rock you’ve been living under, but if they sell Slayer, Motorhead, and Metallica shirts in Walmart, Urban Outfitters, and H&M then metal is already mainstream and has been for decades.
@@Thaddeustheimpaler it's mainstream because posing advocates like you are okay with it. It's fuckin annoying. At the very least black metal has remained pretty underground. Hope to keep it that way.
God damn it, Loudwire… 🤦🏻♂️
A poser is someone who pretends to be into something, not someone who doesn’t even know what the thing is.
Try that line of reasoning with a Swastika or a yellow star or profanity. To not know a band's name and imagine
or think or guess-you insert your own word into the orifice-and then decide its a 'fashion' brand is silly.
I have to admit though, that I have no understanding of human nature where a-basically poor person-will wear a
t-shirt with the name of a fashion brand whose products sell for 1000s of dollars. It's a 5 dollar t-shirt!
Unless you listen to black metal, then everyone is a poser
@@motbydeligkrist5991 In the words of Lich King. "Black metal sucks"
@@motbydeligkrist5991 based?
Oh yes that’s right👏🏻👏🏻😵
A girl i work with had a Metallica and justice for all shirt on one time and i was like "i love that album" and she just looked at me with a clueless look on her face, and i said "oh you dont listen to them" and playfully called her a poser and she got pissed and accused me of being a poser, i then proceeded to show her my and justice for all tattoo on my leg and spent the day rambling off random facts about the album.
Hell yeah \m/
In 8th grade I wore a metallica shirt to gym and my coach who you would least expect to like rock at all complimented the shirt saying it was his favorite band and that he saw the in ‘89. What a moment
Rock?🤨
@@2pigsTV Pop rock.
@@OlExtraRegularBass Metal
@@jakemayfield2818 Hell no.
This does burn me up too. However, I get targeted alot for wearing band shirts cause outside of that, nothing about my aesthetic screams metalhead. I’m constantly having to prove myself. I’m aware I look/talk/dress like a rapper but I’m a guitarist in a Death Metal band 😂 it doesn’t have a “look”
Get a grill and confuse them even more.
Start wearing your old guitar strings as a crow of Thorns
Just look at Tim Henson of polyphia
Ya, this. If my tats are covered you would NEVER know I'm a metalhead. This is by design of course, but every once in awhile I blow someone's mind when talking music.
I used to perform Goth/Industrial music, but don’t dress up in a way that you’d guess it. I always wear dark colors, but my clothes don’t have any band logos on them and I’ve never liked jewelry. I don’t “accessorize” at all, actually.
No one would even talk to me at a club until they saw me perform. Everyone was happy to talk to me after the show. I felt pretty good when a someone told me their vampire chick friend said I was stuck up because I wouldn’t give her the time of day one time at a show. I was like, how ironic is that?
So you're saying you aren't a poser? Name me 5 Avantgarde Atmospheric Melodic Blackened Death Metal bands then...
Uh.... em... *Scratches neck*... ENTER SANDMAN!!!
Nailed it!!
sad thing is thats probably a metal genre.
@@MindVersusMisery lol!!
Minus the melodic, Portal sort of, lol?
@@bdizzler1521 isn’t that the band where the guy wears a clock as a mask?
Many years ago at Hot Topic I found a shirt during their $5 bin clearance sale. (Forgot the actual name of it.) but the shirt said “at least I listen to the bands on my shirts. I was ecstatic when I found it lmao. Many years later, it doesn’t fit anymore. But I did cut out the text from the shirt to put on the back of a battle jacket I’m working on.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk .
Very much enjoyed the talk, thanks very much
Ain't nobody thought of "Hey, man, I was just gifted this shirt and it's comfortable"?
Imagine seeing someone wearing a metalband shirt and you're expecting them to be a fan of them so you start interacting with them and started asking but they don't even know that it's a band. For metalheads perspective it's like a cop wearing a fake badge and it will give us trust issues.
Factual.
Its happened to me, extremely disappointing lmao
@@marinavol.6519 imagine confronting someone and got disappointed because she didn't know that it's a band lol
That and we were bullied and ostracized for beint metalheads in high school.
Now it’s a fashion statement? The fuck!!!
@@imfireproof YEAH LOL my friends make fun of the stuff i listen to all the time and then walk around wearing iron maiden and metallica shirts like they're a fashion brand
The thing is that, as a consumer, not knowing what you're ingesting makes you seem utterly stupid and yet... you've the right to be stupid.
No worries... in a sense and at some point, we all are.
This is a brilliant reply. The height of idiotic consumerism is blindly buying without even knowing what you are buying into.
Lulz let me wear Metallica shirt cuz it's cool looking.. oh wait let me wear a Free Epstien T shirt because the color and logo are dope and it's so "ironic" looking.
@@k.a.2241 difference between Epstein and Metallica is that Metallica has left mainstream knowledge long ago imho. If we're talking about the 10-30 year olds that usually feature in these videos
No Ken, it doesn't. It makes you look like you don't give a damn. Not the same thing.
It's material made to keep you warm with some dyed cotton or polyester. Nothing to get worked up over.
im 14 and that was so deep n informative
Well, there was this one classmate of mine that had a "The Dark Side of The Moon" shirt, my teacher asked him once if he knew Pink Floyd and he genuinely said "What the heck is even that?", and what's even funnier is that two days later I was wearing that same shirt and when my teacher spotted me he asked me that same question, after hearing my anwser he got genuinely happy.
I had a friend in high school that had an Iron Maiden t-shirt. His father bought to him because he thought it was cool. He didn't like metal, tho. One day, we were in a skatepark watching one of our friends skating, and then a huge guy with a huge beard saw my friend and screamed "IRON MAIDEN ROCK IN RIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and my friend only smile and made a thumb-up
Man, two issues with this that jump out.
#1 You can be a huge fan without knowing the titles of songs. If you listened on the radio, if you listened a decade ago to an album that left a huge mark, etc. Unless you anticipate this question you may never think to memorize the titles. Music is sound, and thats the part people remember.
#2 People panic under pressure. The "dumb" people in the Man on the Street videos are usually scared of looking foolish and end up blanking out. Its normal to forget things as simple as your mother's maiden name under stress.
What this is is bullshit gatekeeping. Yeah, some people wear Nirvana shirts just because its in fashion... so what? If you feel pride in yourself for remembering the titles of other talented peoples' songs then you need a hobby.
Came looking for this comment 👌
Definitely me. I Don't know the name of MANY songs nor the album it came from. But I'll sing the fuck out of them when I hear them.
Well said👍
Exactly. I can rarely name five of anything off the top of my head. My mind just doesn't work that way. I put a CD on and rock out to it. I'm not looking at the liner notes trying to memorize the names of songs as I'm listening to it. I'm usually too busy driving or doing other stuff while I listen.
@@roderickcortez138 you ever see the guy run up to a woman in the street holding a mic in her face and waving a dollar as a prize and he frantically says "Name a woman! Just pick one, name a woman! C'mon hurry! Name any woman!! Think!!!" And she just freezes in place lol.
It's pretty amazing, but that's why it's called the "fight, flight or freeze" reaction. A lot of people forget the "freeze" part. It's easy to think people are dumb, but we all know that public speaking is scary, like commonly listed as the #1 fear, ahead of death, and performance anxiety and blanking are common knowledge, but we're so used to seeing trained charismatic people behind a microphone that we hardly know how a regular person would act under pressure on camera.
I don’t know why it bothers me but it does. It probably shouldn’t, but it does.
I grew up in an era where you wouldn’t dream of wearing a shirt from a band that you weren’t a fan of. For the most part I only wore band shirts that I bought at the concert. It just seems strange to me to wear a shirt from a band you don’t listen to.
1:56 Kanye does actually listen to metal, he's worn burzum t-shirts and had heavy influence for the original cover of vultures before changing it, as much as I don't like the dude he isn't a poser
Metalheads be like: can't stand with toxic music fans, we don't have to prove wealth or status with our music. 2 minutes later: me and my bestie: "Embarrassing people for not proving themselves worthy and knowledgeable for wearing a cool piece of music merch"
LOL BUT FR. To be fair having to name anything on the spot can be hard, it’s just how humans are. I’ve been listening to Metallica for years and I couldn’t even come up with 3 songs in my head that fast. Reminds me of all those times men have tried to quiz me (and other women) on our knowledge on comic books and other forms of “nerd culture”. Just find something better to worry about lol.
I've come to realize that even though I listen to all of these (or a lot) if I was wearing a band shirt I wouldn't be able to name the songs
Not because I don't actually listen to them, but because I'm stupid
Nah, I'd say that would be fairly common.
Your not stupid dude, trying to quiz people on the spot cause of their shirt is stupid.
Seriously, I hope someone comes up to me and asks me to "name 3 songs of from that obscure Japanese hardcore band on that shirt that you got at a show 10 years ago".
Haha!! I have a shocking memory, so I panicked about the shit people have been saying here.
Nah man... people don't sit around looking at the CD sleeves reading every word of every song and the song title anymore while listening to the album like back in the day. I can sing along to a lot of songs but wouldn't necessarily know the song titles.
Wear it for the passion NOT FOR THE FASHION 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Posers are actually the worst metal enemies, even worse than pop fans
As long as the bands get their money and the free publicity, I'm all up for it
i m not
But they don't and that's the problem
Its not publicity though, these people actually think theyre brands
Exactly testament should see it that way unless of course you don't want someone like Kanye influencing what and how people feel about your band I mean they say there's no such thing as bad publicity but then there's Kanye giving you your publicity
My problem with it is when i see someone with a megadeth shirt i want to talk to them. And when they dont know him i ask why you wear it. Mostly those posers get angry then
I once went out to buy some beer wearing my S&M Metallica hoodie and the cashier told me i had awesome taste and i ended up standing there for about 10 minutes talking to him about it, and now everytime i see him he's like "Theres the Metal guy!"
Nice
Thats wholesome man
Metallica sucks though. There's way better metal out there
@@Ishbu101 They are far from sucking, every metal band you like took inspiration from them
@@HeavyRaiden So? Everybody took inspiration from the Beatles and I hate their music.
I'm a Metallica fan, but I don't get upset when someone dont know what Metallica is. Art is about emotion, passion and sharing. Not about shaming those who don't know what you like.
Its like a fake cop wearing a badge. Turning a Passion into a Fashion? I call people out all the time, but I don't get mad or upset. Yes, people can wear whatever the hell they want. Nobody isn't saying they can't 😂
@@phonymex3340 bad comparison
EXACTLY! the only thing that kinda pisses me off is when brands like h&m capitalize off of the bands name. All these Metallica shirts that they sell, theyre just using the band for money and i dont really like that.
I’m a metallica fan too, same as many other metal bands/rock bands, but i listen to so many different songs etc that if someone asked me to name a certain amount, my mind would probably go blank from the sheer amount of different bands i listen to etc. Gatekeepers suck ass
@@BlackenedMorgoth same lol, my music taste goes from metal, rock, 60s,70s,80s, over grunge, indie rock, permanent wave, over kpop and rap up to classical music lmao
I never wear band shirts because I’m so bad under pressure that even if I know all their songs, they will all leave my head in that moment.
I used to be a huge gatekeeper of the metal bands I love. Their music meant so goddamn much to me that I felt like nobody really understood them but me lol I used to meet other girls at shows in the nasty restrooms and see them with a Behemoth shirt on or something and strike up a conservation to find out that they didn't know them...it was usually their bf's shirt. And it pissed me the fuck off lol Then while out at a local show, I had a Cattle Decapitation shirt on and these two guys quizzed the fuck out of me about the band. I passed lol And they, like, accepted me and it felt like shit. So now, I don't give a fuck. Wear what you want. Like what you want. Because I know for goddamn sure metalhead guys think I don't know shit but i do. And I know that when I was young wearing Slayer shirts, older people thought I was a poser. It just isn't a big deal when you get to be my age lol Think of it as an opportunity to showcase that band to the person wearing the shirt...maybe make some new fans of the bands we love!
What is it about behemoth that is so deep and meaningful? They sound theatrical to me that’s it. It’s a genuine question, I’m curious about the concoction that makes people feel such way.
@@Yo_blob This is sort of weird, but in my experience - I think it really depends on what you start listening to - like you start listening to some album and then suddenly it blasts "Decade of Therion" song and it sort of catches the attention and you're hooked. And perhaps you listen to another album a couple of times and then you're a fan. Some people were remarking of it being odd that I liked "Dimmu Borgir" (they were considered quite the sellouts at some point) when I was young and I listen to their preference of "Carpathian Forest", "Cradle of Filth", "Immortal", "Satyricon" or "Behemoth" and I don't understand the appeal at all. But eventually turns out it was their first band and then everything else to them felt like it was derived from their original band.
@@CobraFat2000 ohh your take makes a lot of sense!
Maybe it was Behemoth the roller coaster, Canada's biggest roller coaster from 2008-2012.
I didn't get why people were guessing you were a poser or not a real fan then a saw your avatar and mine is just a model I like, but I saw your videos to confirm that is you. Its kind of sad people assume that since you were a girl probably you didn't know what it is you were even representing in your clothes. In fact you know more about metal than I do. The shirts I own are The Police, The Smiths and Ghost. And I can name almost every song by all of them and when those albums came out and the B-Sides even. And yes I have a diverse taste in music, from pop rock into metal. Now there are a lot of bands I would like shirts for I have just been too cheap to buy them that I do know enough about to be confident to wear them. I just don't spend much on clothes anyways thats why I only have 3 band shirts, I like to spend it on things like video games and other necessities and pretty much only when I have to get clothes is when I do I am not stylish at all as they say, and thats when the Smiths and Ghost shirt came into play as an excuse for needing new clothes anyway at the time, I got the other one at the concert.
I fucking love when posers get exposed
Why? How does someone giving money to a band you like hurt you any? Stop being immature.
Does it make you feel better about yourself?
This guy definitely pees sitting down
@@thirdmonkey Misogyny like this comment is just as shitty as gatekeeping.
@@ZiddersRooFurry They ain't being immature, they just like it when those folks find out it's a band and not a brand. It doesn't mean they don't like the fact the band is getting money from it.
Thought, you're commenting under every post that doesn't agree with your own opinion, don't you find THAT behavior immature?
We all know the gatekeepers in our community when we are actually in it as metal heads. Who gives a shit what other people wear. People don’t get to choose the criteria for why other people choose to wear something. “A shut mouth catches no flies.”
Annoying metal fans: "One does not simply call Slipknot a 'metal' band."
because wearing something you know nothing about makes you a knob
@@rogeredmonds3263 Quizzing random people wearing a Yankee hat on the street: Name three QB's, you douchebag.
I agree! Fuck them! This attitude is what is killing the scenes. It's gone from a genre of people refusing to wear a uniform and choosing to not care about others' opinions, choosing to just be themselves to this. Now you have to wear a uniformed black tee from an unknown liberal band with a logo you can't read screaming like cookie monster or it's not metal enough for them to tolerate you.
@Jessie I would lol
I never understood why people wear tshirts of bands that they don't listen to.
I'm a guitarist that loves metallica and I'm also a skater and we feel the exact same pain when non skaters wear thrasher shirts.
I am a 16 year old girl (gen z) and I love rock, listing to Metallica, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath almost daily and whenever I wear the shirts I get taunted on the streets and made fun of by teenage boys, so why is it when ‘normal’ people wear these shirts it’s so cool? I will never understand that.
They're jealous losers.
misogyny unfortunately. my advice is to name twice as many songs as they wanted, or one up them by asking them an even more difficult question lol
You be you girl, excellent bands.. you rock on.🤘🏻
"What? You mean I Prevail is a band? I just thought it was a shirt promoting positive thinking!"
Poser band so whatever
It's as awful as slipknot, nu and core suck
@@dovydas4483 Grow up.
@@dovydas4483 Metal elitist detected. Just a bad as posers
@@camilacastro2773 worse than them.posers dont comment on your music taste
I don't even wear Nirvana Merch even though I love the band because every popular girl bully wears them without ever having listened to one song.
Exactly, that's why I don't wear them either. It really sucks since they're one of my favorite bands
I once saw a dude walking down the street in a Raiders jersey. I asked him what position he played. The dude wasn't even on the team. What a total poser.
I bet he knew the raiders were a football team and actually likes them though. That's the difference, no one is saying that wearing a band shirt means you're IN the band, which is the equivalent of the jersey comparison. Stop with the strawman arguments, you just look foolish.
@@Capnsensible80 thats the whole point of the comment calling someone out for their band tee is stupid and as you put it foolish
😂
This non sequitur is fantastic. You don’t wear band shirts because you’re in the band, you don’t wear jerseys because you’re part of the team. It’s a sign of identification with a group.
@@CharlesSeraphDrums clearly this went way over your head. I was making a joke. I bet you're fun at parties.
2:21 If she legit doesn't know Metallica is a band and thinks it's a clothing label that's kinda not her fault it's just a result of people turning band shirts into fashion items...
You are correct. Band Tees have been so trendy for some time now. The real posers are sites like Loudwire.
@@wadethesladewilson6753 Yeah those music journalism sites are kind of a joke.
true like how is she being a poser when she doesn't even know they're a thing? sorry not everyone knows the name of every popular artist in the world
@@celestinoclemente1954i agree she’s an uncultured swine
Funniest one to me is the student wearing the Twenty One Pilots shirt and then saying they're irrelevant. Other than it being humorous that he's even wearing it, it speaks to how fast people, especially kids in school, follow the crowd and move on from bands they once "liked" just to fit in because the groups only a couple of years older and not what their peers listen to anymore. As a college kid, I saw this on the regular in HS.
@J H He is in college now... What's confusing?
"Can you name One?" There you go, you just did it.
Congrats Loudwire, you’ve summoned the toxic elitists
go cry poser
@@endowednigerian You just proved my point lmao. I used to be an elitist but I no longer care about shit because why should I waste energy on yelling at a stranger at the internet that happens to not know a certain band.
Tbh it doesn't take much to trigger the elitists
Well about t-shirts i must say guilty
They're fun to watch, tho.
I'm from the hood and people question me all the time on my Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division and Lamb Of God T-Shirts. I never fail the 3 song test. I do think it's corny to wear something you don't know about but I can't afford to care about what someone who is obviously a poser wears. There are more important matters in life.
I wore a Knocked Loose shirt in the hood, no one was interested :(
@@blegh.3403 Their frontman sucks
I have a shirt of the 3 Hanson bros in their prime and it says "Nirvana" underneath, and I like to test others when I wear it. These days so many people just go "oh yeah, they're Nirvana" and it is hilariously great.
One of the more important matters in life: how you casually say (and therefore by extension) accept you live in a
"hood." Can't afford to care? Care is an emotion, there is no pricetag. Unless you are attempting wordplay?
What is the difference between 'hood and poor area? Is it skin color? You say from the hood-did you move?
Why would anyone voluntarily wear a 'swoosh' or a panther or a polo rider? Humans are slaves to brands. USA # 1!
@@aburden8580 ok semantic guy. Im from the hood. Meaning i live in a place of low income and higher in crime than other parts of the city. My hood happens to be mostly black which i didnt specify to you but considering the wide use of the term hood and what that usually entails, usually would suffice for a sane person. The reason i pointed out their race is because typically black people dont listen to Prog, Metal or New Age or any style of rock music. I also dress like most of us in my hood dress. I dont dress in the stereotypical way that most dress when part of certain scenes who actually might be from low income aress. A trailer park which is usually mostly hispanic or white is rarely ever considered at hood unless its actually in the hood. That said, I could be a seemingly easy target in this test. I dont fit the stereotype. As far as the word afford, I think you should look up what it means and see that i used it correctly just not in the context it is more often used in.
This phrase was used in "Lights Out" by Breaking Benjamin (yes I like whiny poser bands too) and it was used correctly. Not affording something means you dont have enough of something to partake, endure, purchase or take on something else. That something is usually money but can also be time, energy and resources... pseudo intellectual sematic guy.
Lol nah but very funny. It was even more hillarious when Carlin did it. Am i being an asshole?
people wearing metal shirts: *a great opportunity to introduce someone to metal since they obviously at least enjoy the aesthetic, which is a large part of the genre
metalheads: “POSERS!”
Some of these people weren’t even posers. They genuinely had no idea it was a band or artists a lot of the time. You can’t attempt to pose as a fan of an artist if you don’t even know the artist exists.
Well put. 👍
This.
They never actually enjoy the songs tho, unless it's on a popular TV show, in which case they'll love it
This why rock music is dead coz some edgy metalhead tries to gatekeeping rock music
Plus just wearing the shirt isn't enough to be called a poser. If they were going around like "awh yeah dude I love this band lol" and didn't actually like the band and said it to look cool, that's an example of a poser.
The main reason I dislike non-metalheads wearing band shirts is identification. When I see you're wearing a shirt I assume you're a fan of that band, and therefore a fellow metalhead but when it turns out you're just a poser I get kinda disappointed. Wearing a band T-shirt as a non-listener is like infiltrating the metal network like a spy. It just creates unneccessary confusion.
A. the word "poser" died in the 90's.
2. there is no metal "network". metal fans can barely string more than 2 sentences into paragraphs and it's embarrassing to those of us who are intelligent ..and.. like metal.
III. do you assume that I'm a fan of alligators just because I wear an Izod shirt?
You're an ass clown.
I met this dude with long hair at a party this one time wearing a ride the lightning shirt. Given the long hair, I totally thought he was a fan but couldn't name one song outside of enter sandman :( I usually don't care when people wear the shirts but damn that one hurt my soul.
Yes, because these T shirts were a way of bonding with a very small (at the time) fan base. If you saw someone with a T shirt of a band you liked it was a conversation starter and a way to learn about new music...
Ahhh the pre spotify/internet days
Exactly, you said long hair and I thought too that he was a fan lol
Haha yeha the I would’ve thought the long hair is a giveaway
I was on the other side of a very similar encounter. Same tee. Hair to my ass. I was newly into Metallica, so despite owning "the black album" and having a smattering of MP3's (Napster bad), the only tracks I could name when accosted by some sad drunk at a bar were the ones I'd seen on Much Music a decade earlier "Enter Sandman" and "Until It Sleeps".
I guess what I'm saying is fuck your gatekeeping ass for putting a black mark on an otherwise chill celebration at the pool hall. I could tell by your breath your favourite track was "Whisky in the Jar".
@@samuelkane1717 Why are so you aggressively butthurt?
imagine going out of your way to bother someone for wearing a shirt
Imagine being a poser.
@bfk23 fucking cringe
Imagine gate keeping. Leave ppl alone
Imagine wearing a shirt about a band you don't even know about just because it's cool
@@nsxgtrbeats wait so wearing a clothing item, because you think it’s cool and you like it therefore you wear it, is apparently bad. damn. you are definitely unhappy with yourself if that’s what bothers you, don’t worry thought everything will be fine in the end. keep going and it’ll get better
The fact that this bothers people is hilarious
We live in a soft generation lol
People who like to ask "name three songs fro that band" are red flags to me. And as someone said in the comments, it's boomer attitude lol
@@diana132980 why? The point of these shirts are that people who like the band wear it. Not 15 year old uhly lmbtq girls
@@vavradaniel2662 the point of the clothes is to wear whatever the hell we want lol Be mad at the corporations that make money selling the shirts to the wrong demographic if you wanna be mad at something
@@diana132980 totally agreed
"Can you name One?" - Guy just handed her an answer.