Thursday, July 7, 2011

Ronnie Radke's Falling in Reverse. Which is like Flying. Get it? No?

In case you didn't see him there, or think this band was worth listening to without him.
Any serious drama that goes down in the fake metal scene is nothing short of adorable. It's sort of like glam rock music all over again, but this time on a much smaller, sadder, less significant, and inevitably more forgettable scale. Think of it like instead of having million dollar cocaine parties, we now have keggers that get just a little too out of hand because somebody left the Facebook event open. =\

Case in point, before Escape the Fate were truly horrendous with current vocalist Craig Mabbitt, they were genuinely awful with past vocalist, Ronnie Radke. That doesn't mean that one ETF era (if you want to call it an "era") is necessarily better than the other, I'm just saying that we're dealing with two different types of really bad here. Sort of like David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar. Oh man, did I say that out loud? Sorry. What I meant to say was sort of like David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar.

So in a VH1 Behind the Music story straight out of 1986, Ronnie Radke found himself in some serious legal trouble time and time again involving narcotics and battery charges. For those of you who aren't familiar with legal terminology, "battery" is when one man gets drunk and slaps another in a girly, limp-wristed fashion. It's also the only Metallica song I don't turn off right away. Sometimes. One little scuffle Radke instigated, led to somebody shooting another somebody in the face and killing them dead, and in June 2008 Escape the Fate decided to part ways with Radke and tell him that he wasn't in the band anymore. But only after they realized they couldn't go on tour with a guy who was sitting in fucking prison.

Well not to be outdone by the ghosts of butt rock past, Radke is once again, free as a bird to start new projects and sing all the shitty music he wants. Tell me Radke, why does the caged bird sing? I assume a pretty little boy like you didn't find a lot to enjoy about shower time in federal prison. I can only imagine that your peers ripped you open like a present on Christmas morning. I'm sure in a lot of ways, that's how they saw you. This theory of mine is only strengthened by the fact that you are the lankiest guy to come out of a multiple year prison sentence. Ever. Two years of hard time, with nothing to do except possibly get raped, and you still can't lift a fucking weight?

Assuming his former band is long since over him and satisfied with their current girl boy singer, Radke "started" a new, different band of effeminate men that play guitar okay, called Falling in Reverse. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here and I'll just assume he "started it". What's much more likely, is that he only joined aforementioned band, which I'm sure was already well established in the scene without him, but needed the publicity badly enough to replace their former vocalist and good friend with him instead. He is, after all, vaguely internet famous, so they could be swallowing their pride as artists, and allowing Radke to parade their hard work around as if it was his new band. But no. I'll just assume he must have started it all on his own.

Looking at their newest and only music video for "The Drug in Me is You", I think it's actually kind of funny to see that Radke is able to maintain a sense of humor about his legal troubles:



Tee-hee! I need to be punished! I've been such a naughty boy for getting young people murdered!   I can't say I know exactly what being in prison is like, but I guess the experience was so mild for Radke, that he's still able to look back on the whole thing and laugh about it. Hopefully someday he'll feel the same way about his music. 

22 comments:

  1. Wow that song sucks. I had kinda forgotten how annoying his voice is. I didn't know he had such a fucked up face though, so I learned something from this.
    That guitar solo was pretty acceptable, but it won't make me listen the song again.
    Anyway, seems like he didn't really get what you'd think in prison.

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    1. well mostly the shit you listen to suck and your probley gay ronnie fuking rocks mostly you hate bc your a loser with no life and he makeing a life out of him!

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  2. I'm sure he enjoyed shower time too much to worry about lifting

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  3. http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6617/rauwr.jpg - This sums the whole video up. It was actually the only good part in the video. In fact, I think if that black man had been featured more I would have been able to find the video amusing. Especially if it involved shower scenes with references to American History X.

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  4. I actually had to look up whether or not this band is somehow a parody, but apparently it isn't. That tells you about everything you need to know about this bunch of failblazers.

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  5. tulus: so you're saying you'd like to see Radke getting raped? ... You're weird.

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  6. TRVEMETALKVLTIST7/08/2011 9:15 AM

    I was having a great day, decided to look if there was anything new here and you fucking rape my ears!(in a bad way) you bastard!

    also wtf is that drummer a tranvestite?

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  7. I like how all the band members played all the parts in the video like the lawyers, police officers and judge. Good acting

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  8. "After being raped repeatedly in prison, former jailbird and current homosexual role model Ronnie Radke is getting togather with a couple of autistic children to hit random notes on instruments and drool on the mic."

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  9. rockinpeacedio7/09/2011 4:32 AM

    "Wow! They say fuck in their music videos! That's so 1337 and br00tal!" Go shave your ballsack, emo kid.

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  10. KILL EM WITH FIRE!!!

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  11. Is he the same guy in 3oh3...? Because he sure as shit sounds like it.

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  12. Firstly, im not some emo fag, im straight up metal,but atleast im not ignorant and can't admit to talent when its due, there guitarist is extremely skilled for a 19 year old, the bass player is from a band called "Celador" and is probably the best bassist in decades... and for the point you made about Radke coming out not lifting weights once and being raped... He benches 250lbs and was in solitary confinement most of his sentence for fighting and sticking up for metal music.So before you go and make some biased review, atleast learn some facts.

    basically if you dont like the band dont write a story on them.

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    1. Where did you hear about him defending metal music and being in solitary confinement because of it?

      This band is fucking terrible, I'm just curious as to what your source of info is.

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    2. the source is everywhere!fdude just go here tells you everything!
      http://www.revolvermag.com/lists-2/falling-in-reverse-frontman-ronnie-radke-reveals-the-top-6-things-not-to-do-in-jail.html so yeah!by the way if none of you like the band how do you even know about this!?!?!?and anyways if you dont like them dont listen to them!

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    3. ROB you fucking ledgend all these people are fucking emo fags !!

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  13. Agree with Rob. I use to sit around and make fun of people on the internet, and then my balls dropped. Stop spilling this filth about something you have no knowledge about, and get a real job tough guy.

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  14. OK THIS IS PISSING ME OFF HE DIDN'T GET BUTT RAPED IN PRISON!THE WHOLE DROPPING THE SOAP THING HASN'T HAPPENED IN YEAR BECAUSE THE GUARDS HAVE GUNS AND CAMERAS NOW!IT WASN'T HIS FAULT FOR GOING TO JAIL!HE WAS BEING THREATENED WITH MAX GREEN(or what ever his name is)BY SOMEONE!HE SAID IN AN INTERVIEW THAT HE NOW HAS STOPPED DRUGS AND HAS A SHELF JUST FOR WEIGHTS AND SUPPLEMENTS!KAYY!!and before you post something rude about someone first you should think what you say before you say it kayy!

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  15. whoever said the guitarist in this so called band is the best of our decate, go and listen to Synyster Gates

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  16. falling in reverse is amazing.<3(:

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  17. Your stupid if you really belive this

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  18. benlwen, for serious, i can't believe you brought Avenged Sevenfold into this.

    Ronnie Radke sounds like someone tried to asphyxiate him but only succeeded halfway so they ended up castrating him instead. And he kind of looks like his supply of testosterone was abruptly cut off, considering the fact that he's wearing more unflattering makeup than any of the women unfortunate enough to be surrounding him in the video.

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