FIDLAR IS LAME AS HELLLLLLLL
They had a GoPro filming the audience the whole show. They kept telling the crowd to "Go crazy, crowd surf, and be wild." It was obvious that they just wanted the GoPro footage to seem CRAZY. Nice try FIDLAR, nice try.
And if the GoPro didn't provide enough evidence that FIDLAR totally rules and their fans go totally crazy when they play, they had a guy on stage whose job it was to take pictures of the band rocking out and falling over and being punk. These pictures will probably show up on their totally rad tumblr page. Its like they wanted to document themselves being "punk" so they could use it as part of their marketing strategy. It seemed so non-punk (which is maybe just some fucked up new punk).
It was funny to hear lyrics like "Eating Del Taco and playing video games. Smoking weed until we die. I drink cheap beer so what fuck you." and to imagine people connecting with that, like on an emotional level, like they hear those lyrics and are like "thats so badass AND funny. I can totally relate to that because I do that. FIDLAR makes it seem sooooooo romantic." Its like FIDLAR watched CKY 1 2 & 3 and just wrote down what they saw and then sang that over some fuzzed out chords.
In the end I am left with these thoughts: Wavves is better, Wavves has better songs, Wavves looks cooler, Wavves is more punk, and Fidlar is just a sad embarrassing echo of some romantic vision of what they all think a badass carefree punk vibe is.
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