Goldfinger new song feat. Mark and Travis

[Jan Mortensen]

1 hour ago, Ghent said:

Ok so you agree with me that the general product is the same but the lineup (extra nice ingredient change) make the end product better? 

So it has nothing to do with production, songwriters, or any of that BS. It was all just about Tom

Been arguing this since 2016. Validated

No...because the product isn't the same.  The meal item is.   If pop punk is a hamburger, there are still different levels of hamburger meals.  Blink-lite, aka California-Nine era is just another basic hamburger, you can get at any chain grocery store.  OMT is delicious.  Not as delicious as the prime blink burgers we used to have back in the day, because they've lost or discontinued some of their ingredients, but still way more delicious than a grocery store chain bland burger.  

[Ghent]

So it was never about songwriters and production, that was all made up, it was just about Tom?

So exactly what I've argued for 10 years.

Vindicated

[Jan Mortensen]

Clearly you don't believe in production matters.  It does.  It doesn't make or break a song, but it's always mattered.  You're just jumping around topics here.  The production in this song is generic plasticky ass.  It only makes the song worse.  The song is generic slop.  Therefore the song is diarrhea.  Much like majority of California - Nine songs.  OMT had plenty of ass production, but better songs.

A good song can outweigh it.  And the songs are better on OMT.  Facts  

[Coightstradamus]

“It’s okay when Tom does it”

[Coightstradamus]

2 hours ago, Ghent said:

MAGA but for blink fans

This is perfect. Surprised we haven’t made the connection before. Watching Jan bend over backwards to say things are somehow different this time looks exactly like a Twitter threads with MAGA defending some trump stuff.

[Jan Mortensen]

Reachh

The same can be said for the Cali/Feldmann cult that has developed here unable to accept it was poop. Isn’t that essentially more MAGA? 

[Scott.]

Why does mark sound like a fucking robot now? He used to be so clean and crisp sounding. 

[Coightstradamus]

17 minutes ago, Drama-Free Jan said:

Reachh

The same can be said for the Cali/Feldmann cult that has developed here unable to accept it was poop. Isn’t that essentially more MAGA? 

The difference is we’re not suddenly saying it’s okay cause our guy is back.

Not that hard.

[Jan Mortensen]

8 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

The difference is we’re not suddenly saying it’s okay cause our guy is back.

Not that hard.

Except pretty much everyone has complained about the same things, with Tom back, so you guys are just making shit up at this point because were unable to cope with the band being shit for a minute and Skiba not working.

[Coightstradamus]

MAGA then :

Im voting for trump because he’ll release the Epstein files

MAGA now :

who cares about the Epstein files they never mattered

Jan then :

it’s not blink with outside songwriters

Jan now :

Outside songwriters doesn’t matter that’s just the way of the industry

 

[Jan Mortensen]

“California is great. Blink can do no wrong. Skiba & Feldy are a fantastic addition to the band.”

”Republicans winning is great. Trump can do no wrong.  Vance & Elon are fantastic addition to the White House.”

“Even though the band has always been Mark Tom & Travis and feels way more at home to have them playing together again. All fans agree. Skiba & Feldy were doing the same thing what’s the difference? They do the same thing as Tom.”

”Even though we stopped a nuclear war removing Trump from the White House. This new president in the White House is just as hypocritical with their words vs actions. Definitely feels good to be not unalived, but still, UGH. Democrats.”

 

Can play this game all day.

[Coightstradamus]

9 minutes ago, Drama-Free Jan said:

Can play this game all day.

I don’t think you can. You just posted opinions and not contradictions.

[Jan Mortensen]

Sure, Coight.

[Coightstradamus]

Can’t honestly believe someone in their mid 30’s actually said “unalived”.

[Jan Mortensen]

I’m early 30s.  And yes, makes sense that’s all you can grasp onto there because you and the KK lost this one, again.

[Ghent]

6 hours ago, Russel Coight said:

MAGA then :

Im voting for trump because he’ll release the Epstein files

MAGA now :

who cares about the Epstein files they never mattered

Jan then :

it’s not blink with outside songwriters

Jan now :

Outside songwriters doesn’t matter that’s just the way of the industry

 

They just make up the rules as they go along but can’t admit the only real rule is worshipping the every move of one person. Different scale, different situation, same general effect

 

[Kay]

Have you all just ignored the copious amounts of complaints and issues about OMT? Fun narrative ya’ll are making up. I wish I was Tombot enough to blindly love OMT 😂

[Elisa]

There are only 3 non-generic songs that feel like real blink on OMT: DWM, Turpentine and Anthem Pt 3. 

[Jan Mortensen]

6 hours ago, Elisa said:

There are only 3 non-generic songs that feel like real blink on OMT: DWM, Turpentine and Anthem Pt 3. 

This.  But I feel like Otherside would be a classic & deep Mark song, but the production kills it for me.  MTYK and Edging come close but some of those lyrics drift into 'who wrote this?' generic stuff, and Edging just being kinda a weaker song in general. Terrified verses get me too, even if was Boxcar.  3 'real' songs is enough for me to defeat the entirety of California-Nine era.

Real Blink is that good.  That's why we get so ornery and cranky here, we just want that, and we wait 10+ years for ~3 real tracks lol.

[Jan Mortensen]

12 hours ago, Ghent said:

They just make up the rules as they go along but can’t admit the only real rule is worshipping the every move of one person. Different scale, different situation, same general effect

 

I feel like this parallel is borderline _tarded.

You're comparing the lead singer, main writer, guitarist of the band, with a POTUS candidate that happens to be a cult movement.  Tom Delonge is not a cult movement, outside of Lehoe Dehoe.  The United States Government is not equivalent to your favorite music band.

If anything, Skiba/Feldy replacing Tom would represent the Republican party, because they never would make any changes, and were super corporate and conservative about their processes.  Tom, return of, might not make the most exciting changes this time around, but it'd be like bringing back Obama no?  Wouldn't be as exciting but at least the change/risk, more punk rock factor is there than what we got during California-Nine.