The Worst Industry Plants

Oh my god! It's them! Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss!

Fake teen angst pushed by executives makes me wish I was a teen again so I could be angsty about it.

There is not a single person in history who has described themselves as "whip-smart and wildly irreverent", and had it be true.

the funniest part of the tramp stamps to me, is that you just know the label wanted to get gen z to be fans of them so they were like "ok so they don't like men now....add that to the list."

The fact they dyed their hair to the same color as the bisexual flag AND named their band after a popular 2000's trend that's been coming back just SCREAMS "sup fellow kids" energy.

Is it just me or is Industry Plant a solid punk band name?

A quick reminder that the SEX PISTOLS were an industry plant put together to sell T-shirts. The difference is that they were really groundbreaking and Johnny Rotten wrote his own songs, which became Punk anthems. Started as a gimmick, ended (quickly) as legends.

this sounds like a children movie protagonist's edgy older sister's band

they give me girlboss captalism vibes

someone once said they’re “buzzfeed punk” and it just fits so well

The lead singer isn't singing in her natural voice. She's pushing it to go higher and forcing it to stay in her chest voice, even though it desperately wants to go into a falsetto/head voice. You can hear how hard it's stressing and straining her voice.

Imagine if a boy had written a song with lines like, “How are we supposed to fuck When you’re so dry And when you finally wanna try You lay there like you’ve died And then wanna spoon all night” (yeah, I’m not a songwriter, but I think the point has been made) I think ppl would rightfully be pretty upset about that, and I don’t think it’s any better coming from a female band. That’s some coercive and condescending shit right there, and it’s weird coming from a band that’s trying to fight against toxic masculinity, those lyrics seem more like a band trying to appropriate male toxicity

"nO oNe has eVer tAlkEd abouT thiS" The entire Riot Grrl movement cease to exist

Their lyrics are like what a business man would think teenagers are like.

They weren't just any old industry plants. They were posers. This fact alone made them prime targets for ridicule.

They literally 'just don't look like punks'. They look like their older sisters dressed them for a school talent show

Tramp Stamps are like one of those fictional bands you would see in a movie

I think the most ironic about all of this is them having this "screw-men", "I'm a badass" aesthetic but then being connect to Dr. Luke of all people. Like is there anything less punk then working with a possible abuser with tons of industry connections?

The dream of the 90s is alive on tiktok - that is, arguing over who's alternative and who's a sellout

As someone who used to try so hard to be a punk, going to hc shows, buying local releases, I gotta agree that, whether the others want to admit it or not, it IS marketing and it isn't always an authentic image, in fact it usually isn't. When people try too hard to personify and represent a musical style, that's when fans start to clown on them, and I think it's because many music fans are starting to realize that you simply can't personify your favorite genres. They're styles of music for one so you'll never be a style of music, but to also try and say you represent it is pretentious to say the least. If you were truly representative of a genre, you would never have to state it.