It’s really not good for people who… it’s not good for developing an attention span. It is addicting, though, to just flip through these 15 to 30-second little things. I don’t really know how I would describe it to somebody else, either. But at the same time, even that somebody didn’t even really know what was fully going on, so it was kind of like the blind leading the blind. Somebody did have to walk us through what was going on.
When you originally posted to TikTok, did anyone have to explain it to you first? I just know that whenever I try to explain it to people who don’t know what it is, I end up not making much sense.ĭOUG ROBB: I know. Read our conversation below, in which Robb opened up about finding TikTok fame, coming to terms with the popularity of “The Reason,” what he thinks about the guy from Eve 6, and #fyp #thereason #bandnames #badbandnames #radbandnames #hoobastank #chumbawamba #jamiroquai The silver lining came late, but it came.” So many bands have had to shut it down this last year, they can’t tour, their livelihood is taken away. “That being said, so much of our livelihood now, or for the past 10 years, is based on radio and that song and a handful of other songs that we got so much success for. “This wasn’t the exact career path I think any of us had planned,” he says over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles. He admits he wasn’t always so OK with being a rock critic punchline, and for a long time, he had issues with how “The Reason,” easily the band’s most recognizable song, has come to define the rest of Hoobastank’s career. For what it’s worth, the name “Hoobastank” still means nothing and Robb is perfectly aware of where they fall in the annals of music history. In response to the attention, Robb created a profile and got in on the #NotAPerfectPerson challenge, posting a video of him clowning on his own band’s nonsensical name, the origin story for which kept changing whenever journalists inquired about it in the early ‘00s. Now, two decades after releasing their self-titled major-label debut, which housed nu-metal-adjacent anthems like “Crawling In The Dark” and “Running Away,” Hoobastank are experiencing an unanticipated resurgence in popularity via their 2004 single “The Reason,” which recently went viral on TikTok when users started posting about regrettable life choices set to the tune of the song’s earnest first line: “I’m not a perfect person.”
Though Britney Spears and Hoobastank couldn’t be further apart on the millennium music spectrum - with Britney leading the era’s bubblegum pop craze and Hoobastank ostensibly lumped into the movement’s rap-rock retaliation along with Papa Roach, Korn, and Linkin Park - both acts were undeniably part of the same TRL-teen machine.
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“There was a full solar eclipse, and I had to share my solar eclipse glasses with her in the parking lot,” he adds. That’s my Britney Spears story,” says Robb, who has been experiencing his own wave of Y2K relevancy lately, via - what else? - TikTok. Unexpectedly, though, Hoobastank guy (to borrow from Eve 6’s Twitter meme-speak) has a Britney anecdote to share: “Britney Spears worked out at the same mom-and-pop gym that I have been going to for a while. Like a lot of other people this past week, Hoobastank lead singer Doug Robb and I are talking about Britney Spears.
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