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A Shared Madness = Love for a band's music?
Posted by The Splintered Chapters
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4:39 PM
Singapore’s 987 FM seems to think so. I just got back from the most insulting and distasteful contest held by 987 FM to win meet and greet tickets to Fall Out Boy on Feb 10th. Basically, because FOB’s new album title, Folie a Deux = “a madness shared by two”, teams of two had to perform the craziest things they could think of to show their love for Fall Out Boy.
If that sounds ridiculous, the things some of the teams did were even worse. The winning team (two 13-14 year old girls who won tickets, meet and greets and a signed guitar by Joe Trohman, lead guitarist) poured a bowl of hothot laksa (spicy noodles with coconut milk, for those non-Singaporean readers) over their heads into a pail, took off their socks and used them to scoop the noodles up into their mouths. As if that wasn’t mad enough, they took off their shoes, squeezed toothpaste onto the bottom of the soles and used KFC cheese fries to scrape it off, and yeah, they ate that too.
Like I said, the most insulting contest ever. The 2nd team ate live worms and some revolting concoction of curry powder, chilli sauce and other weird shit. One other team cut off their eyelashes, some hair and made a hair+tobasco+wasabi sandwich and fed it to each other.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Fall Out Boy, and yes, I do want to meet them and tell them how much their music has helped me through tough situations. But, to do shit like that is an insult to both the band and myself. And honestly, I don’t have the guts nor the stomach (literally) to do stunts like that, as amusing as some of them were.
Guess I’m not ‘mad’ enough.
Nevertheless, I will still try my luck to meet them, without humiliating myself, after their concert. See you guys there.
Be nice to people,
Sad Weather Novella.
If that sounds ridiculous, the things some of the teams did were even worse. The winning team (two 13-14 year old girls who won tickets, meet and greets and a signed guitar by Joe Trohman, lead guitarist) poured a bowl of hothot laksa (spicy noodles with coconut milk, for those non-Singaporean readers) over their heads into a pail, took off their socks and used them to scoop the noodles up into their mouths. As if that wasn’t mad enough, they took off their shoes, squeezed toothpaste onto the bottom of the soles and used KFC cheese fries to scrape it off, and yeah, they ate that too.
Like I said, the most insulting contest ever. The 2nd team ate live worms and some revolting concoction of curry powder, chilli sauce and other weird shit. One other team cut off their eyelashes, some hair and made a hair+tobasco+wasabi sandwich and fed it to each other.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Fall Out Boy, and yes, I do want to meet them and tell them how much their music has helped me through tough situations. But, to do shit like that is an insult to both the band and myself. And honestly, I don’t have the guts nor the stomach (literally) to do stunts like that, as amusing as some of them were.
Guess I’m not ‘mad’ enough.
Nevertheless, I will still try my luck to meet them, without humiliating myself, after their concert. See you guys there.
Be nice to people,
Sad Weather Novella.
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