I couldn’t choose honestly, they’re both too good! Whenever I say HT, I think about the diversity of Meteora and I believe for an overall project it hits to mark a little better. But HT just has too many banger and literally no skips.
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Like most people around my age growing up, we all heard of Nirvana and their well renowned songs. But a lot of us just heard the song but never listened to them. If you were like me as a young teen you just played them cause they sounded energizing and electric to play. At the time I didn’t understand what they were saying to me, I just wanted a good time. While these people were talking about neglect, abuse, death, and unfortunately dr*gs, I was jamming like I was at a party. Too immature and careless to understand their words. Until I got a little older and had my own personal problems, and didn’t know who or where to go for someone to understand me.
In my mid to late teenage years I had personal problems with my mother and family. It hurt me so bad to be hurt by someone I expected to feel the most loved and safe with. We had a good relationship at first but as things got worse with my family that’s when she turned on me, started acting different. All of a sudden I was a problem to her, I reminded her of my dead beat father, I was being called gay as an insult, and whenever she didn’t get her way she took her frustration out on me. One time she asked me to take the trash but I couldn’t at the time because my blood sugar was really high as a type 1 diabetic and my chest was hurting so bad that I couldn’t walk. She got mad and asked why didn’t I get up immediately, and when I told her it was because of my blood sugar she said, “Boy I don’t care about your diabetes, if I tell you to do something you do it!”
These problems kept happening, verbal abuse and manipulation had became the norm in my life, I had lost all the happiness I once knew and accepted a dark world as “reality”. I felt alone and isolated. Then later I found my first girlfriend, we had fun with each other and I fell in love with her hard. We broke up for the first time and my depression got worse, then around 2 months later we got back together. I was ready to make it work but it didn’t. After that I was lost more than ever, felt like I got my ass kicked with no break. Then as I was scrolling on TikTok I saw a video that didn’t match my fyp. It was a video about “My own prison” by Creed!
I liked what I heard, and went to listen to the full song. During the listen, I had an epiphany. His words spoke directly to all the pent up emotions, words and thoughts I had. I felt seen for the first time. I check out all the similar songs at the time I called it “dad rock” (I know, I know). Later after getting fed by my new fyp of rock songs, I found out what grunge was. I saw clips of Alice In Chains mtv unplugged, and as I kept watching I got more sunk in. Felt like I belonged, a confirmation to a lifestyle of pain and ruggedness. Ever since then I’ve been listening to grunge and nu metal bands and started creating music myself because I always wanted to make music just couldn’t make anything real or meaningful. But after my experiences with trauma and self harm I finally had a real story to tell.
Grunge music and nu metal feels real and authentic because it is. It doesn’t talk about fake scenarios of always looking your best or being happy cause that’s not how it is all the time. The most human genre of music because it tackles those parts of us. After coping with people who understand me who I’ve never met, I feel better personally in life, me and mom and family’s relationship is better and I’ve made peace with everything. I hope grunge and a real support system has and will do the same for you. Thank you for reading!❤️
Back in Covid days when I was a teenager, the only songs from Mac Miller I knew and listened to were the surface level famous songs. Such as “Donald T”, “Frick Park Market”, “Nikes on my feet”, “Kool-aid & frozen pizza”(etc.). At that point in my life I was going through personality disorder, trying to fit in with the “cool kids”. The people I wanted to please wouldn’t have liked Mac at the time because he wasn’t trap rap or anything “hard”. So I labeled him corny and not “cool” at the time. (I could drop kick my younger self). I was in 7th grade when Mac passed, and used those same reasons and labels to not try his discography then. Boy was I wrong!
Back to pre Covid days 2019-early 2020, I gotten out of my personality disorder and started being my true self. Listening to what music I LIKED, I gave Mac Miller a try but again at the time only his most popular songs. I liked them, but for some reason I thought those songs were basically his whole discography and didn’t do any further research. Plus the people saying mix things about him as an artist made think his frat rap was all he made…until a couple years later when I saw a video about “Diablo”!!! December, 2022 is when I came across a video that changed my life forever. It was a YT short talking about,“best rap performances in hip-hop”. It showed the Diablo music video and Mac rapping, I WAS UTTERLY SHOCKED
I never assumed Mac could rap that way at the time. After that I immediately went to his music, and suddenly the songs I use to skip over sounded so different. Almost as if my ears got replaced.
I spent hours and days consuming so much Mac content. I remember hearing “What’s the use” for the first time, it was genuinely the best thing I heard and just kept piling up more songs until I realized I liked every song from him. Every note of instrumentals, every delivery on his lines was perfect to me to the point that I always say if I made music that’s exactly how I would’ve done it. I didn’t think it was possible for another person to make something exactly how you want it or how you would do it. That’s when he became my favorite artist over weeks of listening to all his songs.
One of my favorite memories is playing COD Black ops 4 while having his entire Apple Music play as I was introduced to each song. God it was such a vibe. I had a great summer the following year because my brother came back from the military and I was alone with no friends for a year straight, locked in my room. When he came back we picked up skating and it was Mac miller playing in the airpods the whole time. Weekend came on as we were riding back home and as the sun set the first piano lines came on and it felt so fitting and peaceful. A song literally about not worrying about problems.
Ever since then I’ve been a proud fan of Malcom, and always will be. Most Dope! Thanks for reading!!!
Last year (2025) I started watching bleach. After years of taking the rumors that it was trash to be true, I was excited to see what it was about. I tried the other big 3 Naruto & One Piece. Growing up as a Naruto kid (like most) I swore nothing could compete… until now.
After watching bleach I can confidently say in my opinion, Bleach is the best out of the big 3. Not here to rage bait ppl into arguing who’s better because neither is right or wrong. Anyways, the difference in personality with Ichigo and Naruto/Luffy is what captured me early on. It didn’t feel like I was watching a dramatic fictional scenario, but rather a “realistic” character for anime. Ichigo in the beginning is just simply a mature character for a teenager, (compared to Naruto and especially Luffy who are all around the same age. Ichigo takes care of his family, he doesn’t act out in school or have some crazy dream he screams constantly. But even though his life changes A LOT he still carries that calm demeanor.
The plot is so detailed and doesn’t leave many plot holes (you can argue there are some) only thing is the anime messed up with putting in trash filler. THE POWER SYSTEM IS SO FIRE. Side characters are actually valued, get screen time unlike Naruto (\*cough cough) The characters introductions in the first two main arcs (Soul society & Hueco Mundo) stand out from the rest of most shonen. You can tell there’s actual love for them. The villains have legit and understandable motives and flaws. TYBW felt so cinematic, last time I felt such a threat on screen was Avengers Infinity War, if you been watching since the beginning it feeds the fandom til stomachs are full.
My favorite characters are Nel, Unohana, Soi fon, Kenpachi & Ichigo. Anyways, just wanted to glaze Bleach. Thanks for reading!!!