The long read: I took a cruise with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out how this much-mocked rock band became so beloved
I took a cruise with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out how this much-mocked rock band became so beloved
“He helped me grow with those old Creed songs,” she tells me. “When I saw Scott for the first time live, he had just gotten clean, too. I’d go to the shows and there would be tears streaming down my face.” Her left arm features another Stapp tattoo, with the words “His Love Was Thunder in the Sky”, surrounded by a constellation of quarter notes. It’s a lyric taken from a 2013 Stapp solo song called Jesus Was a Rockstar. The singer scrawled it on to her body himself.
Unlike Sullivan, Patrick doesn’t possess one of those highly intimate histories with the band flecked with tales of trauma and perseverance. Still, he fell in love with Creed – even if it was only by accident. as Neo in The Matrix. If the establishment brokers of culture once settled on the position that Creed suck, then it has been met with a youth-led insurgency that seems dead set on shifting the consensus – if for no other reason than to savour the nectar of pure, uncut taboo.Many members of this insurgency are aboard the Pearl, and they’re caked in emblems of internet miscellany that scream out to anyone in the know.
music is good now? Is nothing tacky? Have the digitised music discovery apparatuses – the melting-pot TikTok algorithm, the self-replicating profusion of Spotify playlists – blurred the boundaries of good and bad taste? Am I, like Hobey, incapable of being a hater any more? Post-grunge steamrolled the rock business, reducing its sonic palette to an all-consuming minor-chord dirge. Nickelback’s How You Remind Me was the most-played song on US radio in 2002, eventually sparking a furious period of retaliation from the underground.
Unfortunately, Stapp’s remoteness is also why Kelly Risch, a 58-year-old from Wisconsin with streaks of ringed, white-blond hair and glam-metal eye shadow, is fighting back tears in the Atrium, the ship’s lobby and central bar. Risch is sipping mimosas with her sister Shannon Crass and, like so many of the others I have spoken to on this cruise, they each have matching Creed tattoos memorialising a personal catastrophe.
The two sisters are determined to make the most of the rest of their vacation. The Pearl will be pulling into Miami tomorrow at 7am, and there are plenty more mimosas left to drink. I tell them I’m going to speak with Stapp, and the rest of Creed, in an hour. Do they have anything they’d like me to ask?reed are finishing up the meet-and-greet obligations in a chilly rococo ballroom.
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