Thread 127535107

Whatever happened to Kero Kero Bonito? They were big for a couple years, but outside of Sarah's Cryalot side project, there hasn't been anything from them for years. I don't like them myself - they're too damn cutesy for me - but it's lowkey amusing given how music nerds online went nuts over them (and let's be real, a big part of it was them thirsting over Sarah Bonito)

They're all in their mid 30's now probably focusing on better things.
The last EP they put out in 2021 was really good though.

>>127535107 (OP)
>a big part of it was them thirsting over Sarah Bonito
That was most of it. Falling in love with an 80IQ Chinese wrestler lost her some cred with the skinnyfat white nerd audience.

>>127535107 (OP)
They were only popular on /mu/ because girl cute but the whole balls empty belly full thing really put a damper on that, like when Otaku find out their waifu has seen a penis

>>127535107 (OP)
Waifufags are truly the most pathetic people in existence

>>127535183
Hm? Elaborate on that, I never hears about this lol

>>127535305
She went head over heels for some guy who went by "Crusher" and was twice the meathead retard of a guy like Travis Kelce. I don't know much more about him because I'm not Bjork stalker levels of obsessed with random Japanese women

>>127535107 (OP)
>They were big for a couple years
only in your peer group
they were never anything close to big

>>127535107 (OP)
They are one of those bands that perfectly capture the vibe of the late 2010s and early 202s to me so I can see why they would no longer be relevant today

>>127535443
obviously I meant among online music nerd circles. big enough that people kept claiming there was an overlap between KKB and Death Grips fans

>>127535305
C

>>127535662
That I understand this post is deeply upsetting yet amazing at the same time. The way our brain uses context really is something.

The dudes are raising a family now

>>127535183
Literally no one outside of /mu/ cares about CrusherNextGen

>>127535107 (OP)
>a big part of it was them thirsting over Sarah Bonito
For whatever reason when I was young I thought she was the hottest thing ever. I got into their music for whatever reason (I think it was my schizo friend) and they were on rotation all the time in middle/high school for me.
Anyway, the real answer is that all these people have lives outside of their band and just gave up because the Millennial indie thing had overstayed it's welcome. I like that they went out on top.
Also, it's partially due to Beabadoobee blowing up and filling that same niche almost exactly when they stopped making stuff.

>>127536414
You make me feel old

Nevermind the band, what's Crusher up to nowadays? Covid seemed to crush his brain

>Bonito Generation is 9 years old
>Time 'n' Place is 7 years old
>Civilisation II is 4 years old (The game Civilization II is 29 years old)
>Even fucking Cryalot is 3 years old

Wtf it feels so much more recent

>>127535107 (OP)
Sarah no longer had time for the band in her busy schedule of keeping the balls empty and the belly full

She got crushed

>>127537988
>Covid seemed to crush his brain
Couldn't go to the gym so his entire personality withered and died, saw a lot of that happening amongst Deanos.

>>127535107 (OP)
Boyfriend killed her career.

CRUSHED

they’ve done a few features since their last album/EP whatever. including one for 100 gecs

>>127535107 (OP)
I like them a lot, it was cool how you could really see the way their music evolved from Intro -> Generation -> TnP, and I was excited to see where they would go from there. Yeah they were cutesy but in my opinion they were never shallow. Civilization was fine but not really a big step forward musically or emotionally like you got from BG to TnP. Shame the project seems basically dead now other than the occasional remix.
Has anyone listened to any of their solo stuff, particularly Gus' or Jamie's? Is it any good?

>>127536160
Who was the surrogate?

Career got CRUSHED.
The most pathetic thing ever.

>>127535662
>>127538081
>>127538149
>>127539276
Are these "crushed" jokes not a little juvenile? Come on guys, we're all adults here. Let's all be mature and just discuss the music.

>>127535107 (OP)
Magdalena Bay become what they supposed to be by now

>in my late 20s
>considered my music taste eclectic but not too abstract (video game music but no J-Pop/J-Rock, liked some dreampop but absolutely fucking hated Grimes with a passion, etc.)
>randomly hear KKB on NPR or something
>clicks for me as the right vibe at the right time
>really like Time N Place when it drops
>go on /mu/
>see Crusher threads
>it's the most hilarious shit I've seen in my life
>don't really listen to them at all now unless a random song comes on one of my playlists
I'm not even a waifufag for Sarah or anything but the Crusher thing really does cast an eggplant-shaped shadow over the whole thing.

>>127539356
Nah

>>127539356
R

>>127535107 (OP)
I never got whether KKB were genuine weebs or sending up weebery

and now we know why the Korean pop music industry treats its women like it does

>>127539853
The first time /mu/ discovered the Crusher was one of the most hilarious threads ever

>>127540053
What mutilates them beats them, starves them and enslaves them? That's a Korean thing. They do the same with doggos just before they eat them. Koreans are savage mentally ill aliens.

>>127537876
I'm listening to Dead Can Dance now if that makes you feel any better

None of you guys are really telling the obvious truth which is that this brand of happy-go-lucky pop with Eastern sensibilities got quickly replaced by two much more dominant forces in Asian music. I'm specifically referring to KPOP in the mainstream, and Mitski-core for indie-adjacent circles. Now you might not get what that entails but consider other media for a moment. Every single book written by an Asian-American author is now about the struggle of being an Asian-American. Likewise, the gulf between J-Drama and even C-Drama (such a thing exists) is widened thanks to K-Drama appealing as much as it possibly can to Westerners. So we return to KKB and what do we see? Harmless fetishism for JPOP with the naive acceptance of one's identity as a HAPA living overseas. Yes, I'm aware they're a British band with two white guys and a Spanish name, but this loops back around to what I'm ultimately striving to get across here. There was a fleeting period in the mid-to-late 2010s when multiculturalism was liked and accepted, not just by reactionaries but by the same people who would later go on to whine incessantly about how they hate being a symbol of multiculturalism while reaping its benefits. When we take this childlike whimsy out of the picture, and make everything various flavors of Mitski ("I hate my overbearing mom!") then that seeps into every sector of society. Music isn't fun anymore because the fun music is built upon, to some extent, the nihilistic corporatized existentialism of modern day KPOP. KKB were a drop in the bucket but they did provide some kind of potential salvo to this humdrum era of desaturated pop we're forced to accept made by women who are worked to the bone and don't want to start familities. And if I can get a little bit schizo I think this same fucking thing happened to post-punk about a decade too. We could have had a bunch of Guerrilla Toss ripoffs but instead we got the most boring shit in the world. Remember Drunk Tank Pink? LMAO

>>127540317
Well said

>>127540024
weebs? Sarah is Japanese

>>127540317
>KPOP in the mainstream, and Mitski-core for indie-adjacent circles
If anything that helped them out, they remained popular until around COVID because of those two things blowing up and them being swept up in it.

>>127540317
Yeah I got in trouble 2013 for even asking if multiculti was good and almost expelled from college because I am a shit debater and got really scared having like 30 people yelling Nazi at me.

Its soooo much more accepted that multiculturalism is terrible for your social cohesion now. Still, wonder if I would get yelled at anyway.

Crusher has a fucking monster cock
Length and width
Built for BAC

>>127535107 (OP)

posters found out she was dating a jacked filipino with a huge cock so they lost interest

>>127535107 (OP)
Keep scrolling past this and thinking it's the B52's

What’s /mu/ been into recently? I haven’t been around much since maybe the new Brand New album. Don’t think I know of any acts that aren’t washed up

>>127542709
people don't really discuss music here since about 2018 it's a pop culture drama board

Learning more about the crusher stuff is wild, can't believe I never heard about this stuff until now lol. Granted, I normally don't like looking into this kind of stuff cuz snooping on an artist's personal life like that is weird and I'd rather stay outta all that, but I'd be lying if I said this wasn't amusing

>https://youtu.be/dSuINZdJBk8
>*mogs your favorite shoegaze track since loveless*

>>127542737
It really seems like that, but it can’t be completely true, can it? I miss the little obsessions, like art angels

>>127535107 (OP)
I fucking love Crusher. He singlehandedly exposed all KKB posters as shameless waifufags. That obnoxious album cover used to litter the catalog every day for months, but within hours of Crusher posting the “keepin the belly full and the balls empty” tweet with a pic him and Sarah together, all KKB threads stopped and never returned. It was incredible how fast “fans” lost interest in the music once they realized the weeb girl who seemed attainable in their retarded simp minds was getting plowed by a brown jock with a huge dickprint.

And then he pumped and dumped her so hard that she still hasn’t recovered and named her solo project “Cryalot”. It was perfect. The talentless weebette and her enabling simps all got assblasted at once. God bless you, NexGenCrusher. You’ve done God’s work.

>>127536414
>the Millennial indie thing had overstayed it's welcome
>it's partially due to Beabadoobee...
You are brown

>>127540317
One thing I will say about KKB is that there's still the Western Indie Influence in there. All things considered. Pretty unique combo imo.

>>127543391
or a Zoomshit either or

>>127538005
>Bonito Generation is 9 years old
>Time 'n' Place is 7 years old
nigger

>>127543391
this is like /pol/ behaving like a 38 y/o spinster lmao.

>>127542955
Fuckin shit look at the cock on that nip

>>127542955
He's a malet too, drives the knife even further.

>>127543612
That cock has the force of a malet

>>127539243
I enjoy what Jamie is doing as the jlb
https://youtu.be/vGnWh7PUP4s?si=SPZLgyu1H2BwtSWz

>>127540461
She's the most british sounding "japanese" person on the planet.

>>127542955
Damn

>>127542709
I'm getting into olf 4AD stuff, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, etc. I also got back into Big Black.
I love goth and post-punk stuff and I'm interested in all the different streams and ways it went after the early 80s because I think people focus too much on the immediate stuff. Especially now, I'm surprised there hasn't been a revival of the more niche genres of Goth and post-punk given both aesthetics and genres have remained influential.

>>127543391
>You are brown
Beabadoobee is pretty much the same exact thing except with more shoegaze influence and the same exact aesthetic. She blew up at the same time KKB wound down. It's just the way it is.

>>127544866
she's half-Japanese half-British

>>127544220
Hey this is pretty good. Listening to Jamie Loves Bangers right now and I'm liking it. I feel like KKB never reached their full potential which is a shame.

>>127545032
KKB with more shoegaze influence actually sounds pretty interesting but I can't bring myself to listen to Beabadoobee after her embarassing crash out over NBA Youngboy. Don't care how good her music might be, that was some of the most cringeworthy shit I've seen in my life.

>>127535107 (OP)
thank god she was annoying as fuck

>>127545190
>after her embarassing crash out over NBA Youngboy.
I haven't listened to Bea or followed her since she did that kino EP with Matty Healy (it sounds almost exactly like Wish-era Cure), what was it?

>>127535107 (OP)
their career got CRUSHED

>>127545387
Basically it became a meme on TikTok of comparing her as an artist who "can't sing" with NBA Youngboy as an artist who "can sing". The joke being that Beabadoobee obviously can sing fine while the footage of NBA Youngboy usually had random opera singing over it. She completely missed the joke and didn't realise it was ironic and made a few of really embarrassing videos in response.

CRUUUUUUUSH

Most bands don't really stay relevant for over 10 years

>>127545660
>She completely missed the joke and didn't realise it was ironic and made a few of really embarrassing videos in response.
Kek, if anything that makes her more charming to me lol

CRUSHCRUSHCRUSH

NOTHING COMPARES TO

Normally I'm a Fanta kinda guy but when I'm feeling in the mood for a nice thick freshing gulp that is easy to swallow it's gotta be CRUSH.

Damn, this thread taught me that KKB went dream pop / shoegaze in their later albums. I gotta check it out now.
I thought they were always Mario nintendo konichiiwa cutesy indie pop, but it looks like thats only the Intro and Bonito Generation albums. Crusher really did ruin her career, or I guess pathetic stalkers ruined it

>>127548377
FOLLOW ME, DONT FOLLOW ME
I GOT MY SPINE, I GOT MY ORANGE CRUSH

>>127548427
>KKB went dream pop / shoegaze in their later albums
when I listened to their discog, it pretty much surprised me too, and god damn was it leagues ahead of
>wake up, wake up, what's that in the sky?
>could it be? KGB!

A friend dragged me to see them play some bar when they were touring Time n Place. It was a fun show but I never really bothered with the band after that night.

>>127548477
>bar
Were they in the UK or U.S?