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Ok this was going on too long to be put in replies so here we are. Tramp Stamp, the "pop rock" "band".

Okay so. The members. Marissa Maino, has released a few EPs in the past, as has the guitarist Caroline Baker. The drummer, Paige Blue, is a songwriter with a couple of published songs.

However, for each member their former music and style was COMPLETELY different to how they make music now. Sure, styles can change, but this much this quickly? They each apparently spontaneously dyed their hair similarly neon colours at around the same time, before even forming the band.

Their music is also weird. It's like Blink-182 of it was modernized and then diluted down to buzzwords only. It's also clearly supposed to be the sort of "riot girl feminist" stuff seen in pop punk in the early 2000s - except again, it's diluted and "off". Their lyrics all sound like something specifically crafted to appeal to Tumblr users and young people on TikTok, and it seems to bank on the idea that because the target is young, they won't really remember late-90s to early-2000s pop rock and so won't know why they sound "off".

The band has barely started existing, but despite having no sold songs or EPs or albums under their belt, they already have stan accounts, a well-established website, and well-designed merchandise at high prices. Not something a brand new normal band does.

They're VERY defensive whenever they're criticized for anything. Recently they were called out for stealing their name from another band, @/thetrampstamps-blog (these guys are real), to which they responded "we don't like white cis men!!". It was quickly pointed out that every member of their ""band"" is cis, and white.

Everything about them seems manufactured. Their brand-new instagram is full of clearly professionally taken shots in studio lighting with full professional makeup and hair (not necessarily weird for a band....unless that band was created less than a month ago and hasn't even released a debut EP yet). They regularly use outdated slang and act like when old people write teenage characters - for example, one of their TikTok songs contains lines like "Tumblr girl, sk8ter boy", "I'd rather die than hook up with a straight white guy" (????) and "it's some major fuckin tea".

Their lyrics and captions may sound plausible when they're separate, but when it's all put together it reads like an AI-generated Buzzfeed article about current youth trends.

Their website claims their music is "the kind of stuff women talk about with their friends, but no one has ever put it into this kind of music before" (this is apparently a quote from one of the band members.) I'm sorry, nobody has ever done this before? Doesn't your band claim to take direct influence from early-2000s feminist punk scenes?? Have you ever listened to a feminist punk band before, ms "definitely in a feminist punk band"???

As for the "we hate straight white men" stuff, one of the members is openly married to a straight white guy. Not saying you can't be married and also be a feminist pop punk icon, but..their entire thing is that they're "a brilliant voice on white-boy privilege and fragile masculinity". (That's supposedly another quote from one of the band members. Definitely a real human person thing to say).

The band claims to be emo as well, but couldn't recognize MCR music when asked to name MCRs most popular songs. Not that it's impossible, but how likely is it that an emo/pop-punk band taking influence from the 2000s and early 2010s doesn't know what MCR is???

(TW: Sexual assault, alcohol for this bit)

One of their songs describes raping a man by getting him drunk and pressuring him into sex. Whether this is industry-plant related or not, this clearly isn't some "voice for the youth" shit that anyone Gen Z is interested in.

The irony is that they're also connected to Dr. Luke, a cishet white male who owns their publishing house... and who has multiple SA accusations against women (notably Kesha)

(TW over)

Also, they claim to be Queer Punk, but 2 of them are openly cishet. Now, I don't believe you should pressure public figures into coming out, but I can say as someone who enjoys the queer punk scene, I've never seen a Queer Pop Punk band made up of 2/3 cishet people.

On one of Marissa (the singer's) tumblr accounts before it was deactivated, the DNI said "-Phobic against any sexuality, including straight!"

(...what about the whole "we hate straight men and we're queer punk"... thing...)

Tldr: Everything from their social media presence to the way they dress to their song lyrics/style sounds like something old people in suits would imagine appeals to the young generation. They specifically targeted punk and queer spaces and appear to exploit them, and in response to criticism they either explode at whoever is criticizing them, or they delete accounts and immediately recreate new ones.

At first it seems plausible that they're just weird, but the further down the rabbit hole you go, the less and less real it all is. It reaches a point where you see them post and it feels like you're watching an AI that was fed information on Gen Z and is randomly generating content based on that information.

(don't judge me I fell down the rabbit hole HARD ok lmao)

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I'M SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN TO I ALSO HATE IT HERE

I would judge but I’m literally in Texas 😔 we both suffer in areas with rancid vibes

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I knew it was you I saw in town earlier!

Where did you get that picture of me?!

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In about 15 minutes (8:30PM BST) I'm gonna be liveblogging my first watch of the Sweeney Todd musical lol

Idk what else to tag, lmk if there's anything specific but I'll be tagging it "papergay watches Sweeney" if you want to filter.

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

90% sure the guy harassing you is transphobic too 😬😬

Congrats on the scones! Take care of yourself king 💗 and give stew a good boy pet from me

They were homemade scones, lemon poppyseed with a lemon zest glaze! I find that I’m more likely to eat something is I made it bc I feel bad throwing homemade things away.

and a sleepy limp wrist stewie just for you

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

"your delusion is really easy to disprove" yeah almost like it's a fucking delusion or something

Anyways weird delusion squad, mine is that I'm secretly an android 🙃

someone needs to look at a tree and tell me that shit ain’t cardboard because it 100% is!!! weird delusion squad, we need matching jackets!

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Sweeney Todd 👀

First impression: look this was the second(?) Tim Burton movie I'd ever seen, and I got into it because of Edward Scissorhands, and I was SO excited because it was the first horror movie I'd ever seen. I don't know what I expected but I don't think it was What I Got

Impression now: look this bastard motherfucker has NOTHING going on in his head he has NO brain cells and we love him for it

Favorite moment: Epiphany, unironically. I just love love love love LOVE when he gets Murdery. It's fun.

Idea for a story: do you have ANY idea how much I NEED an alternate ending story. If he'd just been able to kill Turpin and Antony and Johanna had been able to run away. Do you have ANY idea

Unpopular opinion: I don't think I really have any unpopular opinions about him? I mean I know people seem to think he's like... REALLY hot and I just... I don't see it??? He's like 50??? Man looks like he'd throw his back out if a strong breeze hit him too hard. Also the weird insistence that he had/would have any kind of romantic feelings towards Mrs. Lovett. It just wouldn't happen until he was ACTUALLY able to get some kind of closure for Lucy.

Favorite relationship: whatever the fuck he had going on with those razors. Really though, I like what he had going on with Antony that was nice, it was cute ("cute")

Favorite headcanon: I will yell FOREVER about him being part of a system I will YELL about it because in my heart of hearts it's true. In my deepest heart of hearts. Also ace Sweeney Todd for the win. Man already has the color scheme

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Europeans🤝Americans

Using “bumfuck nowhere” to describe far off places

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Your Jason assigned cool weapon is: lovecore chainsaws

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I mean I see it cuz “adult animation” really does look similar but I need you to know that MADE MY MORNING

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Assign one to me! Also

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Also… Wally Franks, Bendy and the Ink Machine