PAPA ROACH TRY TO BE MOTLEY CRUE, FAIL
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 at 8:36am by Axl RosenbergRemember when Papa Roach front dude Jacoby Shaddix was calling himself “Coby Dick?” Jesus fucking Christ.
ANYWAY, coming from this band, I would’ve assumed a song called “Hollywood Whore” would be autobiographical, perhaps telling the story of four not especially talented dudes who maintain a steady career in the music biz by aping whatever trend is hot at the moment. Instead, it’s the kind of pop metal portrait of scuzzy life on the Strip that Nikki Sixx specializes in, only without all that “really catchy” baggage. And those lyrics? Oh. My. Gawd. I’m so sure that Paris Hilton is, like, so totally offended.
Wowza. Check out the auto-tune on those backing vocals.
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Once he got to the lyric “We can tell ya got a face lift,” I lost my shit and burst into laughter.
The real “fail” is the “potential” these guys had. I saw them play the Bowery Ballroom just before “Getting Away with Murder” came out. They put on an extremely high energy show, and I had high hopes for them. The first record was mainly disposable nu metal, but I always felt that the second record was a ballsy rock album that got panned because they decided to lose the nu metal gimmick quick, and a lot of folks were not into it. Even today, I still like most of the songs on that record. But from there it was down hill. …Murder was highly disappointing, and one reason why I think Howard Benson should not produce rock albums, and his even brighter finish of the spit-n-polish, mixed with shitty song writing made The Paramour Sessions unlistenable.I’ve tried once or twice since a friend is still a huge fan of theirs, but it’s just garbage.
Fuck, that was terrible. I had no idea Papa Roach was still around. It’s funny… they’ve changed their singing style, but the music there sounded just like that one song they did back when they still rapped… I forget what it’s called.
I wasn’t really watching the video, but I scrolled up in time to see that chick’s face melt off, which was sort of amusing.
I hope that the parties over for this band. Jesus.
I’ve hated this band for a long time. One…one radio single on every album keeps this sorry excuse for a band selling records. I didn’t listen to the song above and I don’t intend to. Please someone put an end to this band….now!
All that life experience and Dick still writes lyrics that are ripped from a 13 year old’s journal.
Getting away with murder indeed.
Someone has been listening to Avenged Sevenfold.
The only good news is that while Roaches may be able survive nuclear fallout, most of them will be killed in the initial blast.
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I wonder which Iron Maiden-riff they’ve stolen this time…
One horrible band trying to imitate another horrible band. What has the world of music come to?
oh god. this was horrible! now i gotta eat some tums
btw i think a more appropriate last name change for coby would be “shatdix”
“shatdix”…. fuckin’ brillant! haha!
Original or not, that intro riff is fuckin’ catchy
I had free tickets to a Tesla show in ‘07 with Papa Roach as the opener. Kind of an odd match up, but I have to say that Tesla had that “been there a million times before” attitude and they totally mailed it in. Not to mention that the alcoholic guitarist could barely stand and the other one came out the wrong door in a Spinal Tap moment and I had to dive for the locking door to keep him from being stuck in the audience.
Papa Roach, surprisingly enough, actually entertained, even with their limited range of talent. I was pleasantly surprised and bought their new (at the time) album. That’s when the disappointment set in.
it’s a very decent song..
they don’t have much of a competition in the genre these days…or anyone else believe hinders shit is better?
Axl Rosenberg needs to stop listening to awful music like Papa Roach and check out some real bands that don’t play the same four chords over and over again.
I bet you think this song is about you, you’re so vaaaain…
Yeah, fuck Papa Roach
The amount of hardcore woman-hating in this song really makes me sick.
Real classy, guys.
Remember that awful show “MTV LEGENDS” or whatever the fuck where they honor some band and then have a bunch of SUPER shitty bands come in and play their songs for them? Like Avril Lavigne singing Metallica? Well, Papa Roach sang “Sweet Emotion” for Aerosmith.
It was fucking AMAZING!
Amazing to watch Aerosmith try really hard to hide how fucking super bummed out they were. Coby Dick (it’s just more fun to say) can’t sing a lick even with a fucking army of pro-tools engineers and without the benefit of auto-tune, shit just gets hilarious.
Check out both of those performances on Youtube. I don’t even remember which Metallica song Avril sings, but whichever one it is, it’s worth it. If you hate your genitals and sexual orientation.
I hate this simply because this made me for the first time ever question the point of gore in a music video.
And i cant beleive they are serious with ending it with that “good lord split ya” line. That was a Legitimately cringe worthy, douche chill inducing song.
In fairness they were an unreal band back in the day. paramore sessions was just barely passable. My god listen to the new album its shit. And on what ‘the mighty quinn’ wrote, yeah i laughed my ass off and lost all respect for jacoby when i heard that “we can tell you got a facelift” line. Its such pop rock shit now, they forgot how to rock and write amazing lyrics. He would never have been concerned with shit like that back in the day. sad to see them die. R.I.P