Drowning Pool Vocalist Thinks “Social Media Sucks”
Ryan McCombs, vocalist for Soil and Drowning Pool, thinks social media sucks. That’s okay because social media generally thinks that Drowning Pool sucks, too, so the feeling is mutual.
In a recent interview last month with The DJ Force X Podcast (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), the topic turned to social media and the nu-metal vocalist had some very choice words to say on the subject:
“Social media sucks. Social media is cool because it has given us all a way to stay in contact. That’s pretty much where the coolness of it stops. There’s so much negativity. I mean, people criticizing TV shows and movies — all anybody’s got to say about anything anymore is negative shit. It’s just, like, man. You jump on social media nowadays and it’s a bummer. And then you’ve got people with the politics. They think they’re making a difference by posting some stupid meme on fricking social media instead of actually doing something about the issue. And then if you get over here in the [United] States, if they actually do choose to do something physical, [it’s] some stupid rioting or some horseshit like that.
“Man, if I could go back in time and… There’s that, ‘What would you do if you could go back in time?’ … my thing would be I would do whatever I could to make sure that social media never existed so that you would walk into a restaurant and you wouldn’t see a family sitting at a table with everybody with their faces in their phones, and families would actually be communicating again and people would be communicating again and not so quick to be tough and talk shit on the social media.”
He then added:
“It’s a very cool thing if used in a business sense, like to communicate, whether it’s to spread the word about podcasts, whether it’s to spread the word about tours, shows, to use it to advertise something that you’re doing or not advertise, but to at least let people know that it exists. It’s invaluable in that sense. The fact that you have a new record coming out, whatever the case may be, it is a way to allow people that wanna know to know. But at the same time, it’s also such a disgusting, ugly fricking creation on a social level. I’d go back in time and take care of that. [Laughs]”
While there’s elements of truth about how negative social media has become, his rant also has notes of “old man yelling at cloud” to it. Sure, social media is overly negative and has given a lot of jackasses a platform to share their jackass opinions, but the common boomer complaint of “everyone is looking at their phones and nobody is talking anymore” gets a bit tiresome. People still talk, they just have a device with all the world’s information in their pocket. Sometimes they like to look at it. Big deal.
