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Yeah, plus Ole's at the end of the song after having a chorus with actual words would be so random and dumb that it would ruin the song.

Yeah, the Ole's are there for the song to be an obvious sing along like I imagine the concerts they play at get so loud and even if it's your first time hearing the song you can sing along to it without any issue. Also maybe the song was made to be a sports anthem? I showed it to my friend who's big into soccer/futball and he was like, "Yeah, It can definitely be a world cup song..." I know the term Ole gets chanted a lot when it comes to certain sports and areas of the world.

Saw this earlier and thought it was neat: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/09/08/blink-182-lands-two-top-10-wins-with-their-new-double-single-release/

I will admit Mark's verses are great, but the chorus KILLS the song for me... That song should have been sat on longer and released with a much better (and less annoying) chorus. Sadly it wasn't so the song ultimately ends up being a miss for me.

It's more tolerable than... "You don't know what you've got (x100)" because at least the chorus for DWM is quick and over with and doesn't take that long while YDKYG is a song that drones on and on while the chorus just makes the song even more obnoxious to listen to.

I'm curious, would you say 'Take Me In' is better than DWM?

I'm not a Linkin Park fan so I'm not as invested as I was with blink-182 so I don't know the ins and outs of the band... On paper, yeah they can still carry on as LP if they want, other bands have done it (some with backlash like with blink-182 and Motley Crue (and others I'm unaware of at the time of writing)) while others have successfully pulled it off. Though maybe there's a chemistry in the original band like there was with Tom and Mark where it breaks the formula without the other? I don't know. I will say this though, them going with a female vocalist instead of another male singer who may or may not sing as well as Chester helps the band a lot. One of the things I hated about Skiba-182 was how Skiba and Mark's voices blended together where as with Tom and Mark they had their vocal highs (Tom) and smooth vocal lows (Mark), but the other was the humor and chemistry and that wasn't there either. I watched a few live Skiba-182 shows (after Tom rejoined the band) and things were awkward, for me at least. That being said, I did watch their debut performance and they seemed they were getting along well... The only thing that rubbed me the wrong way was that Emily was not singing for the whole songs. I get singers (I know Tom does this with blink (and maybe Angels)) let the audience sing along and mute themselves to allow the audience have their fun, but I don't feel like Emily has earned that right yet. Especially with old songs she hasn't been apart of. Now with future songs that she helps write and record on the record? Sure she can go nuts holding out the microphone for the audience to sing along to. These are my thoughts on the whole situation though.

No, I just like the mascot and find them interesting... Honestly prefer it to the smiley that they have been using since 2003 (I find that one boring) if anything the bunny is more playful and a cool mascot for the band. Though I wish @daveyjoneswas still around since I originally wanted to get more information, and he seemed to be very knowledgeable when it came to blink.

I might need to work on the sequencing a bit more, but this is a tracklist I'm (mostly) happy with: 1. No Fun 2. Anthem Part 3 3. Dance With Me 4. If You Never Left 5. Terrified 6. One More Time 7. More Than You Know 8. When We Were Young 9. Everyone Everywhere 10. One Night Stand 11. Blink Wave 12. Bad News 13. All In My Head 14. Turpentine 15. Can't Go Back 16. Other Side 17. Childhood I know some might view this as too long, but I wanted to keep it at the same song count... plus with what some might view as filler others would be bummed to see missing. Though I did remove/replace songs I wasn't that fond of and the joke/interludes felt unnecessary to include so I replaced them with full songs. The frustrating thing is I want to include "Every Other Weekend" as well, but I already feel bad having the set be 17 full songs so one more would feel like it was pushing it.

Wow, they're sounding like Mark and Tom in those tweets

You're not the only one... To me it sounds like the Pixies "Where Is My Mind" mixed with a song tied with Disney (I swear it's a famous Kingdom Hearts song, but I for the life of me can't find the song on YouTube and it's driving me crazy). Edit: I FINALLY found it!

Saw this on reddit and thought it was cute:

Interesting insight from Aaron I wonder if that means Brain Candy was one of them (or got renamed like previously speculated)?

I wanna hear Cynical with Tom... so bummed they dropped it before they got it prorecorded or streamed

Yeah, when I shared the reddit post there was a second slide where Jake said this https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fomt-part-2-cd-coming-soon-v0-s1d1opr5s0nd1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1170%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D075367f7d7790a2cc4218fb5a979cdea4755076d