my brain is melting
the band that wrote the number 2 song on my spotify wrapped, the garages,. this year is a fake band from an ARG (??? i think it's some kind of ARG???)
i got recommended them this summer by another baseball tumblr girlie, and based on their lyrical content i just kinda assumed they were former college/high school players who were still big fans.
thought they were like a poppunk band that wrote mostly about baseball. their bandcamp said they were from seattle. like where the mariners are from (to be fair i did think it was weird that none of the players they namedropped were mariners). and i thought that they were a normal band.
like i'm a long time los campesinos fan and they're constantly referencing soccer. and baseball metaphors are a huge thing in USamerican culture, so i kinda assumed that it was like that
anyway according to my friends they're from some ARG called blaseball that happened in 2020? like The Garages are a fake baseball team in the ARG, and the music is part of the ARG? i don't get it. i've been sending my baseball yaoi friends their songs and saying "this is so horii" or "god this is just what it's going to be like when this guy retires" and just. i feel deranged. what the fuck do you mean The Garages aren't a real band?
I think you’ll find both the team and the band are real enough ✨
