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Merch drop is crazy lol

lmao it's nothing special. adds absolutely nothing to the song, which is probably why they muted it when they put it out in '01. it's probably just an oversight, or maybe they don't even care or remember why it was ever muted lol

fun fact about the version of don't tell me it's over they're using for the streaming debut. it's got an extra chord played twice at the end that was not in the original song on its 2001 CD release. whenever SRCvinyl used the bonus tracks a decade later for the vinyl reissue, the last two chords appeared for the first time. i think maybe the band decided to mute it whenever they first made the album, for whatever reason. but they have resurfaced on the version now used for streaming. weird, right?

I understand the use for AI for some things, but for something like this, it’s kind of goofy. Just hire a damn designer!

They were posted on Facebook with a “AI info” label, which indicates they were made using AI. it’s doubly frustrating because if they have enough of a marketing budget to rent billboards, it should not cost extra $$$ to have a graphic designer draw them and make them more stylistically similar to the original icons. Hell, they could probably even get the original MCA designer (Tim Stedman I think?) to work freelance

Yes and they’re unfortunately AI slop. The bonus tracks are fine but nothing to write home about IMO. Even in the serious songs the lyrics are so dumb and undercooked (“Shit fuck I made a mistake”). Time to break up has that inventive Travis fill, and DTMTIO is probably a better song than Shut Up. But I’ve never really had a soft spot for What Went Wrong or any of them altogether. still, will be nice to finally have on streaming, especially the non joke tracks.

Blink posted something cryptic with the TOYPAJ emblems on Instagram. 25th anniversary tour? Additionally, when you go to the sign-up page for news, it mentions universal music group, which is unusual because the band has been on Columbia, which is a part of Sony instead of UMG. The band were previously signed at UMG from 1996 to 2012. Maybe they have signed to another label?

i don't know how i missed that mark did the theme song for this kids iron man show for disney but it is fucking sick lmao. it has a sly blink reference and has a sick bridge with a moog synth. so cool haha

i think the "dark" descriptor emerged from the way they wanted to present themselves via TOYPAJ -- the all-black photo shoots, the side-swept bangs -- versus the music itself. even tom's guitar work, which is often cited for being dirtier or more angular on the album, is really not all that different than what came before. if anything, the only true groundbreaking thing about TOYPAJ is how enmeshed travis becomes in the sound, more willing to be himself and explore a broader range of styles than on EOTS. it's always been kind of amusing to me that they always viewed TOYPAJ as this darker brother to EOTS when it's the album with fuck a dog on it.

Frequently I found TOYPAJ to be a bland, safe emotionally stunted retread. But increasingly I’ve really appreciated the musicality and small subtleties. For a long time I felt like the weird focus on high school was to its detriment. I still feel like Tom was forcing himself to write about that time period for a lot of reasons — retreating psychologically from fame to a simpler time, trying to connect back to when he fell in love with punk as he was falling out of it, feeling commercially expected to. but overall, I’ve oddly come to respect it. There’s something cute about story of a lonely guy, something pure hearted. Even if does feel a little incel adjacent lmao

Has anyone else ever had a soft spot for this song? It’s such a sweet puppy love kind of type of song.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/mccasland-missing-ufo-us-air-force-new-mexico.html After his retirement, General McCasland also had “a brief association with the U.F.O. community” as an unpaid consultant to an organization called To The Stars that was co-founded by Tom DeLonge, a singer and guitarist in the band Blink-182, Ms. Wilkerson wrote. To The Stars has been involved in investigating U.F.O.s. Ms. Wilkerson said her husband helped the organization on “military and technical/scientific matters to lend verisimilitude” to Mr. DeLonge’s projects.

lmfao that is fucking hilarious. crazy to find old blink moments like that

got my DSS one step and i was like unbelievable... lmfao

I think that they should take the year off. They really did an unprecedented amount of touring between 2023 and now