Thinking about my Mötley Crüe age swap AU right now so here are some rapidfire details about it.
• So in this universe Tommy, Nikki and Vince are the older members of the band and Mick is the youngest.
• Tommy never drops out of college in this au as there was no band stopping him from completing his education and he gets a job in the field he was studying in.
• He marries his highschool sweetheart at nineteen and they had two kids together.
•They moved into a house in Covina, barely a stones skip away from his own parents, and they live a pretty happy domestic life together for .
•That is until he finds his wife cheating on him and he falls into a literal pit of insanity.
• 'How could she do this to him, he gave her everything, he gave her his golden years and she just threw it away, just like that?'
• He nearly kills the guy his wife was with and he gets arrested for assault and is sent to prison for five days.
• Needless to say Tommy, now thirty, spirals completey out of control.
• He starts drinking during the day, he's late to work all of the time, his now ex wife has moved out and taken their kids with her and it's just a mess.
• And to top it all off Tommy looses his job for showing up to work drunk.
• Soon he can't afford the bills on the house so he decides to just pack up and move somewhere else completey, somewhere where he didn't know all the people and everybody knew him. He needed something new, something fresh.
• He decides to move to LA as he remembered always wanting to live there as kid as it was where all his favourite bands were from.
• it was such an impulsive decision that he really only realised he didn't have ....well a plan at all.(He basically just threw his drums in the back seat of his car and drove)
• So unemployed and unable to get a job because of his brand new criminal record he turns to a far more unsavory preoccupation
• Dealing
• Nothing huge, useally just weed or maybe a bit of cocaine.
• But after gaining a few regulars he's able to afford a shitty apartment (with a roommate)right across from the whiskey-a-go-go so he can go down to the club and catch a show or two.
• Imagine his suprise when his roommate just so happens to be one of his regulars.
• Nikki's backstory is pretty much the same to his backstory irl, except he ended up staying in London.
• They'd been together for almost a decade, so Nikki is also in his early thirties.
• They had made it so close to actual stardom that Nikki really thought that London would be the band that finally went the distance.
• They made an album that created some noise in the LA club scene, and they'd been approached by a label who wanted to sign them.
• The band took the deal ,after they booted him from the band and replaced him with someone else.
•They all decided that Nikki's habbits were too extreme to start a good career with and they were just generally sick of his terrible attitude.
• He got kicked, form the band that he founded!, He made those fuckers the stars that they are now and this was how they replayed him?! He'd even tried cutting down on everything he was on so he could be semi sober when he became rich and famous.
• Oh he'd show them, he'd have the last laugh someway, somehow...
• And it's just his luck that after being thrown out of the apartment he shared with his previous bandmates his new roommate just so happened to be a drummer.
• And his newest dealer, he really got a two for one deal!
• Tommy's a little hesitant to move in with Nikki at first, because one, the guy was one of his more "unstable" clients and was generally just super sketch as he seemed wayyyyy to eager to be Tommy's roommate.
• But seeing as Tommy didn't really have any options right now, he sucks it up and they start living together.Besides nothing bad has ever happened to people who lived with druggies.
• They end up connecting quite quickly after they actually settle in with each other and once they start talking about music everything falls into place.
• sidenote if you think that the Mötley apartment is cleaner then irl Mötley's apartment back in the day, your wrong it's still a pigsty, like these guys just don't know how to clean I'm sorry.
• They start playing with each other soon after their music discussion and their sounds blended together in perfect harmony.
•Nikki almost immediately starts pushing Tommy towards the idea of starting a band and with how drastically Tommy's life has changed within the span of a few months, he's just like "fuck it, let's do it"
• They'd come home from their shitty day jobs(Nikki selling lightbulbs and Tommy selling weed) and practice the songs that Nikki had written for them.
• While they were good on their own they still needed a guitarist and a singer.
• Tommy eventually stumbles upon an ad that seems right up their alley. "Loud, rude aggressive guitar player seeks band,call Mick" he shows it to Nikki who gives him the okay to call. He speaks to Mick very briefly to secure a time for them to meet up.
• There was also another guy named Robin that they'd met while hanging out at the whiskey who seemed interested in the idea of joining their band. So they scheduled for him to come over to practice at the same time Mick is coming.
• So this is where the story becomes more similar to the movie as the scene with the guitarists are almost the same, Robin is there before Mick and already in the process of of practicing with the band and Nikki is digging into him for not being to play his cords like he wants him to.
• "Come on dude, I've told you how to do play this like a million times!"
• Just before Nikki loses all patience and kicks Robin out, there's a knock on the door (their door hasn't been kicked in by cops just yet as mötley style parties still happen their just fewer and further between as their old men and their recovery time for a hang over or drug sickness is a lot longer.)
• To get away from Nikki's brewing freak out, he goes to answer the door and there he finds a little red haired teen, that looked like he weighed about 40 pounds wet.
• Tommy raises a brow in confusion, "You lost kid?"
• And this kid just looks at him very intensely, like one of those scary twins from the shining and goes "I'm Mick, I'm here about the guitarist position."
•This kid didn't exactly look like a rock and roller, he looked more like a wanna be country star but he let's him in anyway because he thinks this kids spooky vibe is funny and he thinks Nikki will dig it too (As he's a scary mother fucker himself)
• Nikki seems overjoyed for the distraction that Mick offers him from yelling at Robin but he's sceptical on wether he can play or not.
• "Do you even know how to play this instrument, little boy." Nikki says taking the piss with the kid because he's young and looks inexperienced and he needs a fresh outlet to take his annoyens out on.
• Mick took that as a challege and just to prove a point plays circles around both Robin and Nikki, a man whose a decade his senior and has years more worth of experience.
• Save to say that Nikki was suddenly not quite so cocky.
• Tommy is just in awe of this kids playing.
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The absolute grotesque iceberg tip this post is to my peaceful ignorant boat
Dogs of war sounds awful
I didn't plan on listening to the song tbh, but this ask actually got me to do it lmao
I wouldn't say it's awful but it's bland for sure. There is better stuff out there. Definitely not a song I'd want to listen to again; once was enough.
The music video was kinda fun tho, in a clunky 2000s video game animation with modern AAA game graphics slapped on top way. I'm a sucker for that stuff haha
...I'm wondering if the team behind the video was forced to let the crüe have too much creative freedom 🤔 To me it has that surface level general edgy "People Don't Like Us but We Don't Give A Shit :P" vibe with lots of their usual pentagrams and skulls and tits and ass, with over the top gore and people in suits with dog heads and spiders with women's legs thrown in for funsies. The visuals were a bit all over the place. Like, none of what went down in the video made me think "Dogs of War", who exactly was/is against them? Why were they shot into space in the end? Why was Vince hit by that random car? Why are they still clinging to the notion that it's stereotypical conservative out of touch old people against them because they think their music is too satanic and they're too sexual and vulgar, corrupting the youth? I don't feel like that applies to the current day view of the Crüe anymore.
No cohesive storyline, if you will. Didn't really connect with the song title imo. But what do I know, I only studied media/graphic design for 4 years lol
Ultimately, I'm lowkey frustrated because this could've been a decent song and decent music video, SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!!, but all of it squandered... like, IT COULD'VE BEEN THAT DEEP IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN A BIT MORE OUTSIDE GUIDANCE AND CREATIVE DISCUSSIONS WITH PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEIR SHIT (<- definitely just speculating here but I'm 90% sure because they're known for their volatile tempers and decent amount of power and prestige, no one wants to oppose their creative vision. To the detriment of the end product)
...anon, you sly dog. You got me to ramble about something I don't really enjoy. Kudos to you 👉👉
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