Elders React to Bring Me The Horizon

- It is time to...
- (cast) Sing it!

♪ (rock music) ♪

♪ (ragtime music) ♪

♪ (eerie synthpop) ♪

- Hey, what do we got here?

♪ (drum joins in) ♪

♪ (metal music) ♪
- Game of Thrones?

- ♪ Remember the moment ♪
- It's a little scary.

- ♪ You left me alone
and broke every promise ♪

- I don't recognize who this is.

- ( screaming) ♪ So you can throw
me to the wolves ♪

- These guys are crazy.

- Kind of boy band meets metal.
(stammering quizzically)

- ♪ Every scar will build my throne ♪

- Nice cats. Nice cats.

♪ (hardcore metal music) ♪

- ♪ So you can throw me to the wolves ♪

- And this guy's having a fiddle
with a computer on his table.

- ♪ Beat me black and blue ♪
- I like the music.

- This is my daughter's speed.

- These guys are scary.

- ♪ Every scar will build my throne ♪

- I'm not overwhelmed with this.

- ♪ So you can throw me to the wolves ♪
- Oh, cool.

- Those costumes are pretty interesting.

- ♪ Beat me black and blue ♪

♪ Every wound will shape me ♪

♪ Every scar will build my throne ♪

- (chuckles) Okay.

- Wow. Lucky me.

- ♪ Can you tell from
the look in our eyes? ♪

♪ We're going nowhere ♪
- Well, that's a beautiful scene.

- ♪ We live our lives
like we're ready to die ♪

- (Don) ♪ Ready to die! ♪

♪ (drums join in) ♪

♪ (hardcore metal music) ♪

- It sounds like
he's getting electrocuted.

- Out in the snow? (chuckles)
Very creative.

- You're gonna freeze!

Put your jacket on
and listen to your mother.

- (shrieking) ♪ I thought I buried you
and covered the tracks ♪

- His singing is terrible.

- (shrieking) ♪ With your cold dead hands ♪

- (chuckles) How that voice comes out
of that slender young man like that.

You know?
It's, like, wow.

- ♪ Can you tell from the look in our eyes ♪

♪ We're going nowhere ♪
- It's interesting.

- How can they call that music?

- ♪ Like we're ready to die ♪

♪ We're going nowhere ♪
- Oh, I don't get it at all.

- ♪ This is sempiternal ♪

- Man, the screaming.

- ♪ This is sempiternal ♪

- It's more of a nightmare
than a music video.

- ♪ Rise from the dead you say ♪

♪ Secrets don't sleep-- ♪
- What is he saying, man?

- What he's screaming and saying,
I'm not catching it.

♪ (music grows soft) ♪

- He's just tired out, poor thing.

- Yeah, I'd be exhausted too.

♪ (music fades) ♪

- I don't dislike it,
but I don't like the angry feeling in it.

- (newscaster) ...for their animal shelter.

- "Love is blind."

- "Love is blind." Okey-doke.

- (newscaster) But we have
some breaking news--

- Yeah, [bleep] dumb. (laughing)

- Blind, deaf, and [bleep] dumb. Okay.

♪ (soft percussive beat) ♪
- Oh, shit.

- Okay.

♪ (mellow rock ballad) ♪

- ♪ My head is haunting me ♪

♪ And my heart feels like a ghost ♪
(gun shot)

- Oh my god! What the--?

- You're not supposed to shoot the dog!

- That's disgusting.

- ♪ Cause I'm telling you ♪

♪ You're all I need ♪

♪ I promise you ♪
- (in disgust) Oh!

- EW! (laughing)
Zombies!

- ♪ I'll never leave ♪
- This is a sick video.

- ♪ So you can drag me through hell ♪

- Yeah, you're pretty much
in hell there kid.

- ♪ ... hold your hand ♪

♪ I will follow you ♪

(explosion)
- A lot of death and destruction.

- The world is going down.

- ♪ ...when you die ♪

♪ I swear I'll be leaving your side ♪

- Oh, this is just terrible.

- ♪ So you can drag me through hell ♪

♪ If it meant I could-- ♪
- Oh, he's so happy about it.

Look at him.

- The apocalypse,
but he's pretty happy about it.

- ♪ And you can throw me to the flames ♪

- He's there to pick up his date.

- Mmm, uh-oh.
He's in love with a zombie.

(laughing)
(distant gunfire)

- He's gonna be zombie-ized.

- Okay.

- That one was horrible.

- Well, it's true hardcore rock,

and for fans who love it,
I think it's great.

(movie reel clicks)

- (Finebros) So what did
you think of what you just heard?

- I would listen to it just to keep
my mind open to what's happening now.

- The first two I liked 'cause
they were very, very hardcore rock.

- Well, I liked the song
"Go Through Hell to Get to You".

- It was okay. Not my type of music.

- Terrible. Absolutely terrible.

- It's too harsh, it's too angry.

- It's been done before.

There's nothing original about it.

- I couldn't understand
the music or the words.

It's not like music from my generation.

- (Finebros) And what do you think
about the music videos?

- I thought they
were absolutely ridiculous.

- They're even worse. (laughing)
Especially the last one.

The last one was so gory.

- I know you shouldn't say this
about heavy metal or whatever,

but they were pretty and I liked the one

that was filmed in the snow especially,
and using the flares and all that.

- I think a lot of the musicians,
the young musicians today,

feel they have to shock you.

You didn't always have to do that
to make some good music.

- (Finebros) Do you have
any idea who this band is?

- Nope!

- No idea.

- No, none whatsoever. Who are they?

- (Finebros) This band is called
Bring Me the Horizon.

- Okay.

- I bet my daughter-- I can't wait
to ask her if she's heard of them.

- (Finebros) The music
was initially described as metal,

but specifically deathcore,
sometimes metalcore.

- Metalcore.

I've never heard of it, but okay.

- (Finebros) Do you consider
this to be music?

- Yeah.

- Of course.

- It's all music whether I like it or not.

It might not be my music
always, but it's music.

- Nope.

- No. To me, it's just a lot
of noise and commotion.

- There's just no tune to it.
It's just screaming.

That's not music.

I mean, maybe kids like that today,

but, you know, I don't like that.

- (Finebros) The band has been quoted
as saying they look to evolve

and change their sound over their careers.

Can you talk about the differences
between each song we showed you

or does it not seem that different to you?

- No, there is no difference.

- I didn't notice much change.

It all sounded terrible.

- There was a little change there.

- The zombie video
seemed a little bit softer.

- It shows that they
can be crazy and wild,

and yet they have a softer side to them.

- (Finebros) The band,
in their early days,

had some rumors circulating about them

inciting fights at their concerts
or even peeing on fans...

(laughing)

- Been done. Nothing new there,
Sex Pistol people.

- (Finebros) ...to getting
so drunk at shows,

they would vomit onstage and more.
- Oh god.

- Neat.

- Oh Jesus! Oh, stop.

- (Finebros) What do
you think when you hear that?

- Terrible! Obnoxious.

- I think it's absolutely horrible!

- I think it's really unnecessary.

I mean, you're up there
to perform your music.

- It makes no sense at all.

There's other things they could do.
Good things, positive things.

Stupid things like that? Uh-uh.

- It's shock value.
The kids like that.

It's so different than when
they used to break their guitars.

- I think it's all part of entertainment.

Didn't Ozzy bite the heads of birds?

- Call up Ozzy Osbourne
and check with him for gnarly, you know,

but this is just like...
I think it's just kind of silly.

- (Finebros) So some more info for you.

Bring Me the Horizon has
been around for over a decade now.

- Wow! They must've started
when they were babies.

- (Finebros) It even said that
they aren't really doing metalcore

as they don't listen
to that type of music anymore.

What do you think the band's
long-time fans might think about that?

- I don't know how they think.

- Well, they're gonna get older too
and maybe they'll get some sense.

- Long-time fans probably change
their values as well.

As we grow older, we get wiser.
At least we should.

- Dylan changed from being
acoustic to electric.

If they're really fans, they'll see change.

- Some of them will desert the group
because they want that

and they don't want to grow along
with their idols, so to speak.

It all is about expressing
themselves as artists,

so if that's where they want to go,
to me, the fans should support them.

- (Finebros) Okay, so when we cover
bands we often like to ask this:

if Bring Me the Horizon came on tour,

would you want to see their concert?
- Oh god, no. Never, never, never.

- I would NEVER go see 'em.

- I wouldn't give 'em two cents.

- I don't think so.

I don't know if my ears could take it.

My ears are already ruined by rock 'n' roll.

- I have no interest in hearing them,
or seeing them,

or witnessing anything that they do!

- Yeah, I would go see them.

I don't know if I'd pay.
Maybe if you paid.

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wait, I can't hear anything anymore.

♪ (ragtime music) ♪