![]() It’s something that’s had a massive impact on music, but also on individuals, and I’m so grateful. Maybe my purpose on this Earth was to write that song, and that’s fuckin’ A, man. I meet people every single day of my life, and somebody will tell me that shit. “It’s still fresh, it still means something, it still unites audiences every night, and it’s saved many, many lives. "And Zoltan from Five Finger Death Punch told me, ‘Man, when I heard that song, I was just a kid from Hungary, and that song got me into metal.’ You think about those moments and how much of an impact that song really had.” It’s still relevant “The cool thing was that, as years have gone by, we’ve met so many different guitar players who are out now that are like, ‘That was the riff that made me wanna pick up the guitar.’ Brian from Avenged Sevenfold was a guitar teacher, and he told me, ‘You have no idea how many kids came to me with Last Resort and asked me to teach them it.’ The members of Papa Roach became aware of the story and tweeted a cheeky endorsement of the hoax, before reminding their Twitter followers that the song was about suicide (shown below).(Image credit: KMazur/WireImage) It influenced a generation The moment was covered by Daily Dot and Twitter Moments. It also led to widespread sharing of the story as if it were real on Twitter, though this was more likely a prank born out of schadenfreude than a sincere belief in the photoshop. The tweet gained over 19,000 retweets and 45,000 favorites. On March 24th, 2017, after a vote for the American Health Care Act was pulled from the House of Representatives due to lack of support, a hoax began spreading on Twitter that as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the most prominent supporter of the bill, drove away from the capitol while listening to "Last Resort." Twitter user tweeted a convincing photoshop of the New York Times coverage of the bill's failure, editing the last paragraph of the New York Times piece to suggest that Ryan had been blaring "Last Resort" as a means to vent his frustration. On October 22nd, the earliest archived parody instance of the lyrics was posted on 4chan's /sci/ (science & math) board. Months later, on December 10th, the pizza-themed image macro was posted on the German humor forum Lowbird, followed by another repost to /r/pics on April 20th, 2011 by Redditor Sopadeelie. On June 19th, 2010, the first notable parody of the song in its full-length was submitted to FunnyJunk by user ieuhauntswizards. However, sometime in early 2010, almost a decade after the release of the song, "Last Resort" made a comeback on various music-related discussion forums, mainly for its highly cringeworthy lyrics in retrospect, including on 4chan":/memes/4chan where a thread about the song reportedly gave way to the most well-known parody of the original lyrics in which the word "pieces" is replaced with "pizzas". SpreadĪs the nu metal and screamo waves of the late '90s and early 2000s began to wane in popularity, online interest in the song gradually and steadily declined as well. Over the course of the following year, at least four additional parody sites employing various puns surfaced on YTMND. On December 25th, 2005, YTMND user catwatch created one of the first parodies of the song featuring an image of the classic board game The Game of Life. One of the first known parodies of the song's lyrics was featured in a musical skit on the November 11th, 2000 episode of Saturday Night Live, wherein the lyrics "don't give a fuck" is substituted with "don't give a fork" for comedic effect. It also performed quite well on many charts around the world, including Billboard's number #1 spot on the U.S. The song, which arrived at the height of the nu metal wave during the early 2000s, immediately became a commercial hit and the breakout single that brought the band into mainstream popularity. ![]() "Last Resort" was released on September 18th, 2000 as the debut single from Papa Roach's second album Infest.
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