Who are Relient K and why does MTV seem to be pimping them so much?

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How does this kind of thing happen? What shit music.

(corollary question: Why am I watching MTV?)

― PB, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

wow, what's next, a band calling themselves old milwaukee?

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Some Christian Emo Band.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

THEY SING SONGS ABOUT FAITH AND DEVOTION AND SLITTING YOUR WRISTS AND BLACKING YOUR EYES.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/reliant/reliant_1.jpg

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

the frontman is kinda hott in that generic mtvideoesque way

― Vichitravirya XI, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

They are purveyors of some form of "safe Christian emo" or some awful genre like that. I teach high school, and the Christian girls LOVE them--notebooks covered in "Relient K" scrawls taunt me from every other desk. I thought they must be some dips**t local band that toured churches until I saw the aforementioned MTV stuff.

Horrible, horrible, boring music.

― Max, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

They are Switchfoot for this year's middle America 8th-graders: ex-Christian rockers who are "edgy" enough to feel like mom and dad can't relate, yet still wholesome in an evangelical-minister's-kids-gone-kind-of-bad sort of way (although this time it's emo-pop-punk instead of post-grunge (or something?))

― Chris Wright (DrFunktronic), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

I remember there was one song that people tried to get me to listen to at GSP last year. Sadie Hawkins Dance, maybe? Whatever, it was basically a series of 80s references and an lol-oriented keyboard hook.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

christian pop-punk band. my little sister was into 'em for a while aboout two years ago.

i guess now they're attempting to cross over into the mainstream so they'll be downplaying their christian-ness like POD, Switchfoot, and MXPX before them.

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard this band, but I got my license in a K car. I pretty much killed the clutch figuring out how to start and stop.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

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