Where is the Gen Z (musical) rage about the world?

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bashturd@reddit

Don’t listen to mainstream music. Plenty of Gen Z in the punk and hardcore scene.

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napalmthechild@reddit

Yup they pretty much took over all our local legendary punk venues here in the Bay Area and even made a few more of their own.

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Polarbearstein@reddit

Right? This feels like a very Boomer take "these kids today..."

Unless you are hanging out with them, you dont know what they listen to. Or if you're basing generalizations off what you see on Social Media, it won't be reflective of that generation. No generation is a monolith, they're just a group of people who happened to exist at the same time.

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redfieldranch96@reddit

Thank you, it kills me to see the lack of self awareness in older gens

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iamthe0ther0ne@reddit (OP)

I'm hanging out with them. That's why I asked. I went back to school for another degree and everyone else is kin their early 20s.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Kids today making $70,000 a year and spending $28 on lunch.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

Yep, I know these folks: https://humanvacuumband.bandcamp.com/

And: https://virtualbird.bandcamp.com/

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veepeedeepee@reddit

Y’all need to check out WXPN in Philly. You can stream it from anywhere, tho. It’s independent public radio from the University of Pennsylvania, and they play great new music as well as stuff from the past. IMO it’s the best radio station in the country.

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silversunshinestares@reddit

They're extremely checked-out due to basically everything being terrible, so they use music and other media purely as escapism. It's sad and scary: we're watching an entire generation give up en masse.

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massunderestmated@reddit

Probably not a great thing that we legalized weed, in hindsight. There's nothing really wrong with it, and nobody should ever go to prison for consuming it, but it makes you feel OK with being bored and accepting life for what it is.

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baalroo@reddit

That's quite the lazy caricature.

A good deal of the arts and counter culture that has been "fighting back" over the last 100 years has been accompanied by marijuana.

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Chuckles_McNut@reddit

this person is not aware of the 60's

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massunderestmated@reddit

I'm aware of the 60s. I'm aware of the counterculture. I'm aware that it took a certain kind of balls to say, I'm taking this because you told me I can't have it. I'm willing to take a chance of losing my freedom to express my human rights.

I lived through the 80s and 90s when we still had some of that spirit left.

Now, you can buy weed on an app on your phone and get high walking down the sidewalk. It's not thumbing your nose at authority. It's not expressing your personal freedoms. It's accepting your token in the form of a mind-numbing and pacifizing drug. It's not even remotely the same thing.

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heavyLevy5@reddit

They are checked out because social media highlights the terrible and makes them lose hope, not because everything is actually all terrible

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I do feel that mass check out. Gen Z ain’t the only group of folks doing it. You could say I’m there, checked out long ago and waiting, just waiting to see what happens next

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Yellow_Curry@reddit

Everything has always been terrible. Too many people happy to give up and doom scroll.

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Only-Friend-8483@reddit

Apathy, defeat and hopelessness reign. You can’t win a war that’s already been lost. Everything we see in the news clearly indicates that it’s over.

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shameonyounancydrew@reddit

Okay, then where's the Gen Z emo music?

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

How much sadder can music get? Our generation and the one just before nailed emo, sad, Linkin Park tones, so naturally Gen Z would be sapped of the energy to do it since the music already exists. I have noticed that people just aren’t into music like they used to be, or playlist have become more niche and privatized. No monoculture like the days of Michael Jackson.

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Specialist-Leek8645@reddit

Nothing can make me cry like Strange Fruit. Songs that powerful are rare.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I can’t just flip on Billie Holiday you know what I mean? I gotta be in a special place in my heart for her music. Gloomy Sunday, omg.

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Specialist-Leek8645@reddit

Absolutely I know what you mean. I had to take her out of playlists. She'd come on and I'd be like, Oh no no I cannot handle that right now lol. She's like fine china, in a special cabinet for special occasions. Not for daily use but sometimes you need an emotional purge. It's so ghostly how her voice reaches across time and just grabs you in the chest and shakes you by the heart like, Feel this pain!? This is life! You are alive! <3

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Exactly. We have a mutual comprehension regarding Billie Holiday. Nina Simone too. It’s because of the era when they were known…it was strictly their era.

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zombie_overlord@reddit

My gen z kids (younger gen z) - one is into moody hip hop (Juice wrld type stuff), and my younger one goes for loud 90s punk. His more contemporary music choices are just one off bands I haven't heard of that might have a popular song or two, but it's like nobody buys albums anymore, so they grab the one or two songs by an artist they like and throw it on a playlist with 50 others.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

We were all totally doing that making mixtapes from the radio.

I completely forgot about that scene. I think Lil Peep, Jucie WRLD and XXXTentacion were the last monoculture artists for at least the moody emo Gen Z, because after them those playlists got a little more private.

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taita2004@reddit

I dont know the exact age range if Gen Z (Google says 14 to 29)...but I think Hot Mulligan falls into this category. I think they're all mid to maybe late 20s and a Midwest emo band...they're fantastic. You should check them out if you're into that type of music.

Monica Lewinskibidi is a jam.

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DashSnowden@reddit

Pretty sure all the dudes in Arm's Length were born after 2000. Hot Mulligan are all under 30 I think. There's tons of great new and newer-ish emo going on right now.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I played a little MTVL, looked up the age of some of the artists and went “holy shit!” I’m almost over adults being born in the 2000s. I’m almost over it.

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silversunshinestares@reddit

It exists but it's pretty bad -- it's artists like Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud.

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baalroo@reddit

Everywhere?

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ActuallyAlexander@reddit

So you're more on the Gen X than the Millennial side?

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heavyLevy5@reddit

Doomerism and negativity are easy and reign over social media but aren't reality

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massunderestmated@reddit

We had those feelings too. We still fought back in our music. Every revolution in the history of the world was charged by young blood overthrowing the hopelessly powerful aristocracy, just saying.

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scoff-law@reddit

Yeah but ennui is so much worse than being drafted into the Vietnam war /s

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der_innkeeper@reddit

So, goth and emo music will be coming back?

Awesome

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baalroo@reddit

Well, yeah. Shoegaze, grunge, goth, and moody metal are already on their way back in the underground scenes.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Goth music could come back, like Sisters of Mercy. Some of that music really got you amped. Temple of Love for one. That sound. 🥰

That dreadful, sad genre that makes everybody dreadful and sad, yes, I acknowledge. It’s there for a reason. I have one song that’s a go to for that. One song is all I need for that, and the song is called Buried Again by Dreadful Shadows.

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vitaoptima@reddit

This.

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winksoutloud@reddit

Highly disagree. If people would fight, especially the younger people, things could turn around. Not all, but many young people seem to accept everything and don't ask questions or do anything to make a change.

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vitaoptima@reddit

I don't disagree with you, but if you've already mentally given up and feel like there's no point in fighting, how do you bring yourself to fight?

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iamthe0ther0ne@reddit (OP)

And here we are, still a few decades left. Not a good sign.

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El_Guapo_Supreme@reddit

The music industry (controlled by the oligarchs) decided the counterculture fostered in music has been problematic for too long.

They replaced any kind of counterculture narrative with a narrative of materialism.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/billy-corgan-cia-mtv-rock-conspiracy-theory-1235524545/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/s/Su85W9tDpx

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AlienPrimateHybrid@reddit

I'm a believer of the 1992 conspiracy that a bunch of rich and powerful elites needed to fill the increasing number of private prisons being built across America and used rap music as a way to promote degenerate lifestyles as a good thing. Look back at music from then and there is a hard shift in the hip hop culture from the era of like Arrested Development, who were one of the biggest hip hop acts of the time, to gangsta rap ad acts like AD basically disappeared overnight. Sure you can argue that it was simply a shift in musical tastes but I don't buy that. It all lines up too well, especially when you start digging into the private prison system in general.

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aardbarker@reddit

Even if this conspiracy theory were true, it’d still require the participation of millions of people to lap the “degenerate” music. Which we did. Do we not have agency over what we listen to?

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I do distinctly recall hearing someone out, voicing concern about this subject specifically. They were concerned about Snoop and Dre being seen as representatives of “Black Culture”, which would be false. They represented a facet of culture that was the preferred highlight for white people, the gangsta thug dangerous oooooh…and they want to say all black people are like that, forgetting completely about afrocentric acts like Arrested Development, De La Soul, et al, forgetting about the protest culture of Public Enemy, the cuteness of the likes of Biz Markie…nah, it’s time to be a hardass gangsta now.

Why tho?

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AlienPrimateHybrid@reddit

I think the elites gauge who will play ball and who won't. That's what separates rappers like Lapp Dogg and Chuck D. They found out way back then that people like Snoop and Jay-Z are willing to play ball and people like Chuck won't. They don't like positive messages. That goes against jailing people for years for having a small amount of weed or coke on them.

It extended beyond rap and went into all forms of media. Think back to the timeframe from like 1992 to a decade or so ago and all media enforcing this notion that this represents all black culture. Also think back to the OJ Simpson trial, which was a direct response to the Rodney King beating. Racial tensions were high and I don't think that was done on accident, in retrospect. I was a white suburban kid, I bought into it. But now, especially after what I've seen in the Epstein files, I am more willing to buy into the idea that these things don't happen at random and that they are, instead, very purposely placed there by powerful people for means that we won't realize until its too late.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I’m strongly inclined to agree with the last thing you said there as I have seen of what you speak myself

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gooch_norris_@reddit

Another prison system for you and me

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Consistent_Stick_463@reddit

Oh baby you and meeeeee

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iamthe0ther0ne@reddit (OP)

That's a little terrifying, though definitely possible with algorithms controlling people's playlist exposures

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jahneeriddim@reddit

They are still paying off their credit cards from when they saw Taylor Swift in ‘24. Once that’s finished they can maybe buy a guitar unless learning music is cringe

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AdjectiveNoun1234567@reddit

Jesse Welles

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

Technically not quite Gen Z, he's a Millenial (born 1992)

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AlienDelarge@reddit

Are we looking for a musician who is gen z or a musician who is popular with gen z?

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Cthulhus-Tailor@reddit

Never heard of him, it’s wild how now that we’re long past radio stations I have absolutely no idea who most any newer musician is by name or face.

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Polarbearstein@reddit

He's great.

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red286@reddit

You won't hear it on the radio because GenZ doesn't listen to the radio.

It won't be very visible on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music because they curate towards the middle of the road.

So if you go by the metrics we grew up with, those genres don't appear to exist. But they're there.

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PhysicsAndFinance85@reddit

I'm pretty sure most of the songs getting radio play time these days were written by committees in board rooms based on projected sales revenue.

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Salty1710@reddit

You don't hear it because terrestrial radio is no longer a barometer of the current generation's music. you have to wade into the cesspool of TikTok, Soundcloud and Insta to find music of this generation.

... but I don't recommend it. Musical artists with broad appeal are a dying breed, replaced by the mediocre and AI content creators.

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Tinyhulk27@reddit

Tbf it's a double edged sword...

While not my style per say as I understand it My Chemical Romance, Fallout Boy, Owl City, Panic at the disco etc those "emo bands" I was too busy for, made it big based on MySpace?

In 2005 while those guy were the new/indie thing the conventional "mass appeal bands" were "old bands" like the Foo fighters, Green Day , Black eyed peas.

While I enjoy the mass appeal bands listed above (because they started in our youth) i think the new youth deserves something new if they want it.

I mean I liked hair metal well enough but imagine in the studios didn't take a chance on Nirvana, STP, Sound garden,, smashing pumpkins, offspring etc. because they only wanted to stick to what was the current mass appeal and we just got 4 more quiet riot albums and the warped tour and family values was loaded with bands like the scorpions, twisted sister, Night ranger and Judas Priest.

I think anything that allows artist ( even if we don't personally like em) to reach a bigger audience and upsets the balance of the industry only feeding people the mass appeal is a good thing.

I'd rather sludge through 30 crappy artist to find a jewel or 2, than to be forced to listen to Nickleback, Creed, Linkin Park and Lifehouse on repeat because thats what the masses like and the only other station options are country western and Christian talk. (2001 in north Texas sucked ass)

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bjgrem01@reddit

Metal. You don't hear it in their mainstream music.

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iamthe0ther0ne@reddit (OP)

I mean, that was my point. Springsteen was mainstream, Green Day was mainstream, no one seems to have picked up from there when it feels like people should be angrier than ever.

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LemurCat04@reddit

Babe, Green Day was punk before they were mainstream. LOL.

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Imaginary_Scene2493@reddit

What even is mainstream these days? The algorithms have splintered people so badly. I have a daughter who sings and loves music, so she keeps up with new music through trending lists, and it seems like a lot of it doesn’t break through to public consciousness despite “trending.”

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AlienPrimateHybrid@reddit

Spiritbox are a mainstream modern metal band who played at the Grammys recently. They were born out of weirdo indy band iwrestledabearonce and kinda blew up around Covid with Holy Roller.

Awesome band imo. They don't necessarily write "rage" music but they do write some really heavy stuff. Constance fucking gets to you if you have ever lived through that. I think their writing is quite mature for their age, honestly.

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Imaginary_Scene2493@reddit

I’ve never heard of them, and when I mention other bands that are “mainstream” and played at the Grammys and Coachella and whatnot, I get the same reaction from others. It’s not that you nor I have a wrong perception of mainstream. The public is just that splintered by the algorithms. Having a large platform like the Grammys or appearing in charts or trending lists is no longer an indication that a band has recognition beyond a small percentage of the public.

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MetalEnthusiast83@reddit

Green Day was mainstream,

Yeah but Green Day really didn't get overtly political until later in their careers. They had some songs about social decay and stuff (Welcome to Paradise) but the song that made them famous was about being mentally ill and the other big songs off that album were about jerking off and relationship issues, respectively.

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baalroo@reddit

Those were very different time in the music industry where the majority of music was heavily curated by large commercial interest due to the limitations of distribution.

Now that many of those roadblocks and limitations are gone, the corporate interests can focus on a much narrower definition of "pop music," and the more challenging stuff is self produced or small label, and this doesn't get the corporate money push and mainstream comporate support.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Metal, the biggest niche genre of all.

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LemurCat04@reddit

It’s on TikTok. Keep in mind that the music industry is still coming to grips with not having physical media and having other distribution channels beyond their control at play. So the music is out there - YouTube, TikTok, various other sites/apps.

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MaMaMonkey76@reddit

Generational names are created by advertisers. I know. I was one.

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CubesFan@reddit

It's hard to have a big song of any sort right now with the fractured music landscape. Then you add in that the billionaires own all the media outlets so they don't want to promote people who are against the establishment, so you don't even know when good protest songs get made. You will see some bullshit song from some racist country singer complaining about woke tho.

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zurenarhhhhh@reddit

They’re out there making their own shit and playing in nameless places for no one but they’re out there.

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codeprimate@reddit

buffalo_farm is my new RATM

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_meestir_@reddit

They don’t rage they go online and post memes about how sad they are ..

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Ditzy_Davros@reddit

GenZ is trying to build their lives like the rest of the majority that doesn't let politics live rent-free in their heads. It's quite nice out here..

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

That’s pretty stupid you downvoted for that. Gen Z tends to get attacked because Gen Z is the unequivocal Think For Yourself generation. I give them that. I don’t believe in anything I hear on TV related to politics because in my live experience, I know when I’ve been lied to by mass media, and I really am too old for that shit now.

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Ditzy_Davros@reddit

I'm in my 40s. I've got too much other crap going on in my life to care about politics anymore. The GenZ I've met so far have been pretty cool. Definitely a no BS kind of attitude. Hope they stick with it.

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merchantconvoy@reddit

Truly counterculture music is not only blacklisted by the labels but also banned on all the Big Tech platforms. You'll be lucky to find that kind of stuff on the occasional torrent tracker.

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CrispyDave@reddit

It's a very good point.

I notice a lot of current musicians and DJs are not particularly what I would call working class either. I think it's near impossible to get a music career off the ground without having someone, usually parents, to fund and support you for potentially years.

Having said that, the original US hardcore scene was based in practically no support, everything was DIY, but I don't particularly see Gen Z getting out in numbers to support bands like that either.

As a lifelong fan if new music it's a bit of a miserable situation imo.

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KaJedBear@reddit

I'd argue Grandson is the new RAtM.

Most of the bigger metal bands are very much counter culture and left leaning politically. Having recently been to the Bring Me the Horizon and Motionless in White show, Gen Z seemed to be pretty well represented there

I think the biggest thing to note is there is no mainstream nowadays. I can go to work and talk about an artist that sells out stadiums and my coworkers have no idea who I'm taking about and they can do the same to me. There's just so much content out there now.

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ActuallyAlexander@reddit

Jesse Welles, Hyphen, Bob Vylan, Rain McMey, Mudrat

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blacksapphire08@reddit

Hell yeah Mudrat slaps!

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post_obamacore@reddit

Big Ass Truck letting you know:

https://youtu.be/knWblAs-JSk?si=KdZjvGs8ZqJu3NuO&t=1511

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FluffusMaximus@reddit

Bro… RATM is squarely Gen X. Are you a “everyone older is a boomer” type?

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iamthe0ther0ne@reddit (OP)

"We and the Boomers," "we" = as in Gen X/ennials, then example of each

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FluffusMaximus@reddit

Fair enough!

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I’m just noting this, Chuck D, who performed with The Prophets of Rage, was born in 1960.

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TiaHatesSocials@reddit

Being squashed by Suno

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ineffable_my_dear@reddit

Resistance Revival Chorus, Jesse Welles, Jessilyn, Boom Boom Racoon, Carsie Blanton, Mon Rovîa, Desaparecidos, Jordan Smart, Billy Simons Jr, Trashbag Ponchos, moussangelo, The Coup, Seb Lowe, Earth to Eve, Dog Park Dissidents, Trevin Francko, Sin Shake Sin,
Bambu (shoutout 🇵🇭)

I don’t know that all of these are Zoomers but I think they skew young.

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ActuallyAlexander@reddit

Mousselangelo mentioned 🎉

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requiem_whore@reddit

To quote my 25 year old child, "papa, you know that no one under 40 thinks that they are going to have grandchildren, right?". Protest music bring along with it the possibility of that protest helping, or turning the world in the right direction. My kids' generation has given up.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

I’m not sure anyone has a sense of hope or optimism for the future anymore

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requiem_whore@reddit

I don't disagree, and also observe that some folks grew up with a sense of optimism, only for it to be dashed later while others grew up knowing that there was no reason for optimism. Gen-Z tends towards the latter, and that must be a horrible experience for growing up.

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iamthe0ther0ne@reddit (OP)

Tbf, that feels like a correct take right now

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mj16pr@reddit

It wasn’t their time yet, but it’s coming. They were too busy calling us cringe and then fell for a lot of BS.

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ChooseYourOwnA@reddit

I think Wet Leg’s album Moisturizer is a good example?

Mangetout has that Gen Z absurdism but also the chorus is “You’re in our way [old people]. Get out of our way [by finally dieing ffs]. Get lost forever.” Catch These Fists also has some of this.

Maybe I’m projecting but I see rage in new rock music. It may just be couched in some absurdist humor or alongside mention of happier moments. It’s like if the Beatles sang “I want to hold your hand / at the wake for your mum and gram.”

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Special_Aardvark8317@reddit

Delilah Bon (Dead Men Don’t Rape is a banger). Kneecap literally just beat terrorism charges. Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest rappers right now and his lyrics are largely political. Olivia Rodrigo handed out morning after pills at tour stops in states where abortions were banned. They’ve tried to cancel Chappell Roan repeatedly over support of Palestine, she sold merch and donated proceeds in support of Palestine on tour. Billie Eilish is another one. Bad Bunny just played the Super Bowl and is the biggest rappers in the world and his music is all political.

Those are just off the top of my head artists that I personally listen to. I’m not super connected to younger artists and that scene though. Ask someone Gen Z and you’ll probably get a better answer. Granted a lot of them that I listed don’t “rage” but they are definitely political.

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Public-Grocery-8183@reddit

Of course, Knee Cap! Their movie is great too.

I would argue, though, that Kendrick is a millennial artist (born in 1987, first album came out in 2011). But yes, his music is popular among lots of young people.

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Special_Aardvark8317@reddit

Agree that he is a millennial and he’s been around for a minute. I included him because he’s definitely popular with young people though.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

That’s a good list of GenZ artists you picked out.

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LeopardDue1112@reddit

Everything is about clicks and number of plays now. Artists don't want to alienate half the listening audience.

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Public-Grocery-8183@reddit

Although she doesn't make rage music, Billie Eilish is mainstream and pretty outspoken as an artist.

https://au.variety.com/2026/music/news/billie-eilish-finneas-falling-out-slamming-ice-billionaires-36029/

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

You just nailed the answer there. Gen Z doesn’t rage because Gen X did and thus the subsequent wave of hopelessly sad and dreadful music dominated the airwaves for nearly 2 generations. And then the wave of emo hip-hop for the sake of the state of emo. I like the formula. Billie Eilish is working with, because using a soft voice is pleasing and it makes people want to listen to you. It’s a psychological fact.

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pina_koala@reddit

It's there, but the larger problem is that z/alpha have embraced commodification. What we called "selling out" they call success.

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irResist@reddit

you seem to have forgotten gen x. I mean punk rock is definitely not an xennial phenomenon even if we did enjoy it.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Punk goes as far back as to…I call born 1954-64 “Boomer Jones”, and that’s who started punk. I think Iggy Pop may have been born earlier, I think he’s considered proto-punk. Blondie might’ve not been a punk band, but they found themselves among the scene.

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WalterWriter@reddit

Part of the reason is "their" music is every era of recorded music, because of the Interwebz. There are plenty of 20 year-olds who know about Woody Guthrie and 14 year-olds who know about Black Flag at a younger age than I did.

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NoLimitHonky@reddit

Tom Morello loves capitalism SO MUCH he now has a signature guitar for sale lmao... Such frauds

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likesblackcoffeebest@reddit

It's there, but with lesser known artists. Listen to some outlaw country lately, there are eloquently angry GenZ'ers to be found

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karebearjedi@reddit

I search "gen z emo" and "gen z angry" on spotify and i get dozens of member playlists and hundreds of songs.....i guess it depends on how you search for key terms

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Marshall_BraveStar@reddit

Music has changed. Apart from genres like metal and such, there are no bands anymore. There's no new wave of something. No subcultures that spawn bands.

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AlienPrimateHybrid@reddit

Also, I'd say the Scientology building speedruns are a form of rebellion. Its done with a jovial tone but that's what a lot of rebellion was historically. It's just old school trolling.

I work at a college. I think the younger generation is more tuned in than you people are giving them credit for. Maybe you should actually speak with them directly instead of jerking off other Reddit jerkoffs who are your own age about how kids these days suck.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I love that about Gen Z. I did see an attempted speedrun by one black man back in 2015 but I never saw him come out. He tried it in the building closer to Vine subway stop, which I heard is the scary building.

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HermioneMarch@reddit

My Gen Z kid listens to my protest music. Listens to other stuff too, but not with lyrics.

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LunarWelshFire@reddit

Grandson!

You’re welcome

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shifting_drifting@reddit

They’re too busy scrolling.

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FluffusMaximus@reddit

There it is.

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

The answer to your question is Rick Beato on YouTube

His answer is not going to make you satisfied

I won’t go any further into it.

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ghoulthebraineater@reddit

I don't know about that guy.

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

Check out his YouTube channel. He’s worth watching

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throwawayfromPA1701@reddit

Music programs in public schools are barely hanging on and that's where a lot of bands get started, GenZ is also unchurched where a lot of singers get started. The KidzBop Industrial Complex I think sucks a lot of energy out of the room too.

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AlienPrimateHybrid@reddit

The punk scene feels pretty strong these days. There is definitely angry music out there. Lambrini Girls pretty directly call out all sorts of different people. Go dig through the scene and you may be surprised at what you find.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

They have forms of media that are not music. Brainrot ia the concept of rebellion against being. Their poliyical causes are starting to overlap elements of the far right and far left.

They are fighting back, we just don't share the same opponent.

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ScreenSensitive9148@reddit

They’re on meds. And getting therapy. Well, at least the ones whose families can afford that. The rest are “micro” dosing and self-diagnosing based on TikTok videos from folks who never finished their medical degrees.

I’m not saying that getting help is a bad thing. At all. It just takes the edge off the organic feelings and expression that we were forced to deal with growing up.

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JackBlackBowserSlaps@reddit

Seems like with the uprise of social media, everyone switched to trying to pretend their life is awesome.

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millera9@reddit

frostbitt - Death God (warning, heavy; both musically and lyrically)