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I think this is spot on. Tom's change from Early Blink to Breakup/AVA/Reunion Blink was absolutely massive, he literally didn't even seem like the same person at times. But now, it seems obvious that he has changed quite a bit again, towards his fun-loving Early Blink days. There could be quite a few reasons for that, but we know that a lot has happened in his life recently - losing his dad, his kids growing up and moving on, getting divorced, finding new love and getting married again, hell even the UFO stuff going mainstream. I think he and Mark both seemed very insecure and uncomfortable in their own skin (in very different ways) as they went through adulthood. Tom desperately wanted to be taken seriously, Mark desperately wanted to keep being a pop punk kid. But now, it actually seems like they've reached a new stage of life where they're content, less defensive, have less stress, less to prove to the world, and have come to terms with all the madness they went through that kept them together and kept them apart over the years. Anyway I'm probably romanticizing too much, but that's the vibe I get from this reunion so far. I don't think it's for the money or even the legacy, it's also not because they're suddenly inseparable best friends again, it's because they grew up and have fewer dark clouds over their heads. They remembered that working together is what they do best, so they learned to trust each other in a new way and have fun again.

People forget that beneath all the goth, The Cure are PUNK AF. Awesome to see a true man of the people who cares about his fans going after the fuckers at Ticketmaster. Too bad it didn't work, but at least he tried - unlike blink.

I’d only do it if I could use it exclusively for starting beef with blink italia

No dynamic priced tickets and now a little refund + lower fees on the general sale tomorrow. This is proof you can take concrete actions against Ticketmaster and win a concession in a few hours (literally) when you really care about your fans. In this house Robert Smith is a hero—end of story.

California and Nine proved Tom is blink. 🚮

Eh, I don't think it would work without Celestino on bass

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“Do you guys think Tom will sing any Matt songs?” ”How old is everyone here?” ”Best blink song round 476 results: random shitty Flyswatter song annihilates Bored to Death!”

The lowest bot in the blink fandom. Even feldybots rank higher.

You know, they could have easily turned the UFC match PR blunder into an opportunity if they had gotten Kourtney to push Travis around in a wheelchair.

It's just kind of...tasteless.

I'll have to deduct one more point from the band on my whiteboard.

I wish they’d drop some cryptic videos or some teaser stuff. I’m mad for that shit.

Album not done yet, but at least they seem to be a band.

The smiley face in general can go away at this point in my opinion

Tbf, Mark could’ve just been pissing about on the bass inbetween listening back to tracks during the sequencing process. Like, him holding a bass in the studio doesn’t mean he’s only now tracking bass parts. Thats me being wishful thinkingy, probably, but musicians noodle while chatting all the time lol

Yeah, I went to reddit and Aaron's instagram to check... Unless Aaron changed his post on instagram it says "Tuesday in the studio" nothing about being done mixing the blink album or how many songs there are. Meanwhile, the image being posted about on reddit is a screengrab from 'angelsandairwavesnews' saying it's being mixed and confusing DAW tracks with like a playlist or something. Which also means we don't know how many songs will be on this album either (so be safe I'll assume at least 10)) I'd love for the album to be finished because there's a chance we might get it sooner if it is... However, don't wanna get my hype up on false hopes. Learned that many times (even had it reinforced a few times).

Man you are old.

Full band should’ve made a statement. Its really the bare minimum

As the only active poster in this thread that has actually seen blink play without Travis since he joined the band I feel my opinion means more than everyone else’s so here we go. Cancelling the shows was the worst possible option. No doubt. When Travis bailed(understandably) on Aus I was rattled but with 3 non-refundable festival tickets, flights, hotels etc I was still super happy the band was still coming. I would have been way more upset if they cancelled rather than had a replacement fill in. Once the show kicks off and Mark and Tom start having a blast you end up forgetting that there is a replacement drummer up there. The songs still sound like they should and as long as you’re not some negative cunt looking for a reason to be pissed you’ll be having a great time. The SA fans deserved this. I get that they wanted this to be the big reunion etc with the original band but they still could have bought both Travis and the replacement. Have Travis rock out onstage chilling on a throne Dave Grohl style for 80% of the set and then add in a 5ish song acoustic set that he can actually play on. I know his finger is fucked but I doubt it’s so fucked he couldn’t play a light acoustic set where he isn’t banging as hard as he can. I would’ve fucking loved it if they did this when I saw them. Hell they did the acoustic set with Brooks and even though I had no clue who the fuck he was it was still fun. Ultimately they chose the lazy option which is pretty shitty. The promise to go back next year is nice doesn’t make up for it. Those fans deserved better. They definitely didn’t deserve Travis throwing it in their faces by going out to the ufc less than a week later. Read the room bro. Anyway. I don’t think anything deep is up with the band/Travis flying/the album. It was a shit, unlucky injury that meant the tour couldn’t happen as planned, it just sucks they were lazy and couldn’t opt for plan b or c and just cancelled.

Continually blows my mind how much people here are willing to drop their standards for this band just because they're happy to have them around. I don't know how you could listen to that JXDN/MGK crap and then listen to something like this and feel them equal The reason California was such a letdown was because it felt like any other pop punk band could've made it. Blink used to set the standard, now theyre just doing what everyone else is already doing/done

„ it will come from the official accounts…“ did mark even put a statement regarding the cancelled SA shows on one of his accounts? The only thing i‘ve seen was that blink182chile post that got deleted. fuck me they addressed this so poorly. Mark is such a entitled twat

Haha true! I'd love a shirt with the pre-182 bunny but I can't imagine that would ever happen

I'd believe you if you told me that's Pauly Shore

We'll see how hard Travis and his crew actually is. SA fans deserve it

He can't play so there is nothing we can do about it, but he's also the same person who got into a fight on twitter with that Australian promoter 10 years ago because he wanted to get paid in full for those Australian shows he couldn't attend. He would have never settled for playing a tambourine and let another drummer replace him. And it sounds like Mark and Tom didn't want that either because Mark said this tour is about the three of them, so they would have never hired Brooks or another drummer. It's either Travis or no shows at all. What's absolutely shitty is that they didn't acknowledge the fact that the fans have to pay twice in order to see them next year. Minimum wage per month in Brazil: R$1200 Blink-182/Lollapalooza Brazil tickets: R$1300

All he had to do was chill for a week and it would be less insulting. I’m sure he could find something to entertain himself for during that time in his multi million dollar mansion.

I just love the idea that someone went “this doesn’t look bad enough, let’s wrap your bedsheet around your head, that’ll do”

Because she's 🤘🏻READY 2 MOSH🤘🏻 and she will be in charge of the pit at the blink shows for the next 12 months.

Travis right now

October 2022: The band has an advantage of 6 points on Tom; he's back but he has zero points because of his antics Tom blink-182 | | | | | | End of October 2022: Tom gets one point because he's not just on the hype train, he's driving it Tom blink-182 | | | | | | | Winter 2022/2023: the band is quietly working on the album, one more point to Tom for the effort of driving to LA and spending a big part of the week there to work (considering that going to LA for all blink related matters has been his personal nightmare since 2004) Tom blink-182 | | | | | | | | March 2023: the band loses two big points for how they handle the South America situation. Tom gets half a point for making a video and sounding sincere. Tom blink-182 | | ' | | | | To be continued...

The truth is, this could've been a great opportunity to actually highlight their relationship. If they'd brought Travis along to jokingly do a shaker on some songs then yeah it would've been funny and he would have been there... but imagine if they'd given him a mic? Had him talk with Mark and Tom? Have him sing one of the joke songs? (would've been hysterical). He could've been at the front of the stage, showing all 3 together, for their first time in SA. Just a thought. What a waste of an opportunity.

Show me on the doll where blink-182 hurt you all.

when you see someone bickering with Jan in a way a feuding husband and wife would, that's Diddy

I don’t know the context or what else was said in this convo, but why is it so hard for Mark to just be like “hey thanks for your patience I know everybody is excited and it feels good! I can’t share anything specific but we’ll have a lot more for you this spring/summer/(fill in the blank)” In a lot of these little moments, including his video about cancelling the shows, he always comes across exasperated like the fans are expecting too much from him. People are excited! They’ve been “edging” since October just like the band wanted! I think it’s perfectly natural for fans to want more info.

Bummed out

Mark is always saying it’s not official unless it comes from our official accounts and shit like no shit, people are excited and speculating and sluething because it's been 6 months since we had anything official

I'm still going with what Rubin said at the end of 2022 = 2022 started with a secret that would later be one of the biggest music stories of the year. Which means that they've been working on the album since early 2022. I know we always expect the worst, but this time the album is coming out in time for the tour.

Honestly the longer we have to wait, the longer we can hold on to the dream of those guys being able to make a great record still..

Haha it does just make him seem like a bored middle aged empty-nester with nothing to do. Based on his insta posts you'd think he's always just chilling on his couch alone wishing his kids would call and check in.

I don't think they could recreate the Letter to Elise as well as when they recorded it live.

Oh so now Tom is back in the band suddenly everyone is cool with another band writing blinks songs for them? What a joke.

Edging is just a nonchalant sweet blink song. It’s not gonna change anyone’s life, but it’s hard to find any major faults with it. Good, fun blink song and did pretty well on alt radio. I’ll take it

Prompt: Explain the lyrics “I wanna fuck a dog in ass” Answer: The singer wants to fuck a dog in the ass

They should sign up on blink online and bitch about it

I’m literally in Cancun. but also the actual wedding wasn’t tonight it’s Saturday. I’m the best man

Since nothing else works, maybe we should just start simping to South America as a blink online marketing ploy. We could all brush up on our Spanish and Portuguese. blink-182online.com- we cum to Brazil

Ghent: Also Ghent....

Can someone photoshop a flaming HECK sign?