somehow / someway i'm listening to a literal club mix of a dale earnhardt jr. jr. song right now. it's not "bad" but like why am i listening to it?
spotify truly said f*ck it with this one.
apparently dale earnhardt jr. jr. (since they peaked in 2010/2011) have rebranded themselves as "JR JR" in an attempt to stay relevant to some extent.
it clearly didn't work because i had no idea that this happened and i feel like if anyone would know about a dumb fact like this it would be me, right?
their EP "horse power" from 2010 was pretty good if i remember correctly. but i'm not sure if it still holds the test of time and i'm not sure if i want to listen to it again.
dale earnhardt jr. jr. is just one of those bands that got kind of lost in the mix when people used to check up on brooklyn vegan everyday to see what was new and noteworthy in indie music.
& the more i think about it the more i can confirm that i fully had their song "vocal chords" from the horse power EP on my ipod back then.
i'll post the KEXP live session from 2010 below ... as a relic of indie music history and online music blogging culture.
what i'll say about this performance (since i just watched it for the first time) is that i like how they really ran with the whole nascar motif. and i like that their little costumes are lysol and cheerios themed. other than that this performance for me is kind of mediocre now that i understand the world more than i did in 2010. they aren't bad musicians per se but i really hate how one of the guys kept deciding to improvise his vocal parts. it kind of made him sound like jason mraz or something at one point and i really didn't like that at all. for 2010 this was pretty good though. but i don't think i have the time or energy to truly dig into their new music.
it's just not worth it.
after scrolling through the comments of this KEXP video i found this interaction that gave me...
a little bit of a chuckle.
imagine getting into a fight on the comment section of a dale earnhardt jr. jr. KEXP live session.
i really can imagine getting into a fight in the comment section of a dale earnhardt jr. jr. KEXP live session though. especially 8 years ago.
which is most definitely the worst part about any of this.
i've only ever gotten into one youtube comment section fight in my life. i have no idea what the video was of but i was defending my 'boyfriend' at the time that i had for like 2 weeks tops in 6th grade. all i really remember about the "fight" was being called a "KUNT" by a complete stranger. my response to that was something to the effect of "why would you want to call me the name of a radio station west of the mississippi river" which i thought was really clever at the time. what i remember the most about that entire online interaction is my mother yelling at me after seeing the word "KUNT" associated with my name on google.com when i was 12 years old.
back to the freecreditreport.com band – after reading this article on complex.com i unearthed something really ridiculous and amusing to me.
first of all, the guy singing in the commercials is dubbed over because he sounds "too foreign" in real life. & second of all, apparently he's really into industrial music and specifically cited nine inch nails, skinny puppy, and rage against the machine as his "recent influences." (2014)
i wonder what he's up to now and if i can follow him on social media just to get a deeper peek into his life.
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