Line #29 Music/FallingInReverse


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2	[[caption-width-right:299:Left to right: Jacky, Ronnie, Ryan, Derek, Mika.]]
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6	Falling in Reverse is a PopPunk/[[{{Metalcore}} Melodic Metalcore]] band from Las Vegas, Nevada. They were officially formed when their lead singer Ronnie Radke -- former vocalist from Music/EscapeTheFate -- was released from prison in 2011, but published demos on [=YouTube=] as early as 2008, under the prototype name From Behind These Walls. They released their debut album later that same year.
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8	The band was notorious for the drama surrounding their lead singer and their rivalry with Music/EscapeTheFate. Ronnie Radke was arrested in 2008 following run-ins with the law over narcotics possession and battery charges for a fight that left an eighteen year old dead. Whether Radke was asked to leave the band or was fired, either way, some bad blood came out between the rest of the band and Radke. In 2014 Ronnie made up with Craig and announced a joint tour between the bands.
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10	Originally the band's image was somewhat the "bad boys" of post-hardcore, between having one album dedicated to insulting Ronnie's former band and another dedicated to flexing like mainstream rappers. Inadvertently helping this was Ronnie having several run-ins with the law even after getting out of jail, including being arrested for assault after throwing 2 mic stands into a crowd, something he deeply regrets. Starting with ''Just Like You'' the band presented a much more serious image, with none of their prior ego.
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12	'''Members:'''
13	* Ronnie Radke - lead vocals, additional guitar since ''Coming Home''
14	* Zakk Sandler - keyboards and rhythm guitar, bass before the lineup change of 2018
15	* Max Georgiev - lead guitar
16	* Tyler Burgess - bass
17	* Brandon Richter - drums
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19	'''Former Members:'''
20	* Nason Schoeffler - Bass
21	* Scotty Gee - Drums
22	* Mika Kazuo Horiuchi - Bass
23	* [[OneSteveLimit Ron Ficarro]] - Bass
24	* Max Green - Bass
25	* Jacky Vincent - Guitar
26	* Ryan Seaman - Drums
27	* Christian Thompson - lead guitar
28	* Derek Jones - rhythm guitar (died 2020)
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30	'''Discography:'''
31	* ''The Drug in Me Is You'' (2011)
32	* ''Fashionably Late'' (2013)
33	* ''Just Like You'' (2015)
34	* ''Coming Home'' (2017)
35	* ''Neon Zombie'' EP (2023)
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37	!!Troping in Reverse:
38	* AbusiveParents: Part of the reasons why one of the kids in the music video for "Superhero" wants to leave. Combined with AlcoholicParent; it's mentioned that the kid's dad drinks a lot and gets angrier when he drinks.
39	* AGodAmI: In [[TakeThatCritics "Losing My Life"]], Ronnie mentions that he is no longer the King, but the God Of The Music Scene.
40	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: "Good Girls, Bad Guys" references this dynamic, from the perspective of the bad boy who's baffled as to why good girls like him, in its opening lines and title.
41	-->''So why do good girls like bad guys?\
42	I've had this question for a real long time\
43	I've been a bad boy and it's plain to see\
44	So why do good girls fall in love with me?''
45	* BoastfulRap: "Alone".
46	* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: From Ronnie's album thanks; "Oh yeah and one more person... my mother. Fuck you."
47	* CoverVersion: They've done 3 over their career: [[Music/GreenDay "She's a Rebel"]] as a bonus track on some editions of ''Fashionably Late'', [[Music/{{Coolio}} "Gangsta's Paradise"]] as part of the ''Punk Goes 90s'' compilation CD, and a SofterAndSlowerCover of [[Music/PapaRoach "Last Resort"]] in the same style as their "Reimagined" rearrangements.
48	* {{Crunkcore}}: ''Fashionably Late'' is essentially this, combining electronic, rap, and post-hardcore elements along with an overall party-hard attitude and abundant BoastfulRap. The album was quite popular among its target audience despite crunkcore having fallen out of favor several years prior to its release.
49	* DomesticAbuse: The focus of their song "Pick Up the Phone".
50	** Also the basis of "Bad Girls Club" is him being wrongfully accused of this. Stemming from Ronnie being arrested for domestic abuse which he was later found innocent of. It should be noted that [[RefugeInAudacity the court case was still ongoing at the time of release]].
51	* {{Fanservice}}: In the "Drug in Me Is You" music video.
52	* GenreRoulette: While ''Fashionably Late'' still contains songs close to the ''Drug In Me Is You'' {{Metalcore}} style such as "Born to Lead" and "Self-Destruct Personality", it also contains the {{Dubstep}} "Rolling Stone", country-influenced "Drifter", {{Crunkcore}}/RapMetal "Alone", and PopPunk with Nintendo samples "Game Over".
53	* GriefSong: "Brother" and "Carry On" are written in memorial of respectively, Ronnie's brother and Jacky Vincent after the latter's death in 2020.
54	* HeavyMeta: ''Coming Home'' bonus track "Paparazzi" is a mass-produced pop song that discusses mass-produced pop songs and the notion of "selling out" associated with them.
55	* {{Hypochondria}}: [[WordOfGod Ronnie stated on a Twitch stream]] that health anxiety is the subject of "Voices in My Head".
56	* IfICantHaveYou: The StockPhrase is directly quoted in "Pick Up the Phone" by Ronnie playing a CrazyJealousGuy.
57	* IncongruouslyDressedZombie: A zombie in a cheerleading uniform appears in the "ZOMBIFIED" music video.
58	* IntercourseWithYou: "Good Girls, Bad Guys" and "Red Alert", the latter being an unreleased demo which had many of its lines reused for the former, feature lines like "I just wanna kiss your lips / the ones between your hips" and "Sorry, girl, if this is quick / so please just take it in the ass and suck my dick", although the latter is CensoredForComedy.
59	* ItsAllAboutMe: A lot of Falling in Reverse's lyrics are this to Ronnie Radke, talking about how much [[TakeThat better he and the new band are than Escape the Fate]] and how he is the "king of the music scene".
60	* HypnoticHead: The head itself doesn't appear, but a series of [=TVs=] in the "ZOMBIFIED" music video feature hypnotic spirals, a rather on-the-nose demonstration of its TakeThat at mainstream media.
61	* {{Kaiju}}: At the end of the "ZOMBIFIED" music video, a massive dinosaur-like creature wreathed in lightning emerges and devours Ronnie's vehicle.
62	* KillingYourAlternateSelf: The "Voices in My Head" music video consists of Ronnie killing characters based on his past personae.
63	* KonamiCode: The Konami Code was referenced in their 2013 song, "Game Over".
64	* LoveIsADrug: "The Drug in Me Is You" and "Sexy Drug".
65	* MetalScream: Goes from Type 4 (High-pitch, almost singing) to Type 2 (Animal-like growl), all in the latter half of "Watch the World Burn"
66	* MissingMom: This comes up on a frequent basis in songs about Ronnie's life, with "Drifter" and "I Don't Mind" focusing on the impact of his mother's absence on his later life.
67	* MoralityPet: In the "Popular Monster" music video, a CooldownHug from a young girl, stated via WordOfGod to represent his real daughter, is what pulls Ronnie out of his werewolf rampage.
68	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Directly quoted in "The Departure".
69	* NewMediaAreEvil: This appears multiple times in the music videos for songs off of the Neon Zombie EP, including the hypnotic [=TVs=] in "ZOMBIFIED" and Ronnie murdering caricatures of himself attempting to cancel him on Tik Tok in "Voices In My Head".
70	* NewSoundAlbum: ''[[RapMetal Fasionably]] [[{{Crunkcore}} Late]]''. They changed back for ''Just Like You''.
71	** ''Coming Home'' incorporates space-rock elements into their sound.
72	** Their singles since ''Coming Home'' have both reintroduced rapping, but not the crunkcore style that came with it.
73	* OuijaBoard: "Don't Mess With Ouija Boards" references the titular boards in its chorus. The rest of the song is about a DealWithTheDevil, so it's implied the Ouija board summoned some sort of demonic entity.
74	* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Ronnie turns into a werewolf near the end of the "Popular Monster" music video. It has nothing to do with the moon and isn't voluntary, but activates when he's in danger, suggesting it's something akin to a fight-or-flight response.
75	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The ones in the "ZOMBIFIED" music video are stated via WordOfGod to be a metaphor for cancel culture so it's debatable if they're symbolic or not. Otherwise, they resemble the usual rotting-human-with-torn-clothes design, but maintain some degree of sentience, are implied to be the result of media brainwashing, and avert NoZombieCannibals; in a scene in a diner, a zombie waitress points to another one and the horde tears him apart. They also don't seem to realize they're zombies, based on a scene in which a zombie cheerleader sees herself as a human in a reflection.
76	* ParentalAbandonment: A common subject of their songs that describe Ronnie's life, including being part of the introduction describing Ronnie's backstory in "The Westerner" and being the central theme of "I Don't Mind", combined with Ronnie's fear of [[TurningIntoYourParent turning into his]] MissingMom in regards to his career keeping him from seeing his daughter.
77	* RearrangeTheSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2cbhYihBWY The Drug in Me Is Reimagined]]", a [[SofterAndSlowerCover Softer and Slower Remake]] of "The Drug in Me Is You". [[spoiler:[[CarefulWithThatAxe Until the end, at least]].]]
78	* ReligionRantSong: "God, If You Are Above..." and "Popular Monster" both discuss frustration with religion and God not responding to suffering. In "Popular Monster", Ronnie specifically proclaims himself to be a "non-believer", and its pre-breakdown hook insults religious people.
79	-->''Praying to a god that you don't believe\
80	You're searching for the truth in the lost and found\
81	So the question I ask is, oh, where the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] is your god now?''
82	* RevolvingDoorBand: Jacky Vincent arrived early on, but the rest of the band wasn't stable until shortly after the first album came out.
83	** For those wondering, Anthony Avilla and Gilbert Catalano were the first two guitarists, and Nick Rich, Oscar Garcia and Khaled Biersack were all briefly the drummers. None of them are mentioned in the members list because they were gone before the first album was recorded.
84	** Minor case in 2014 with bassists. Ditching Ficarro to introduce [[Music/EscapeTheFate Max Green]], who left after all of 4 months. Live and in the studio he was replaced by session member Jonathan Wolfe for the recording of Just Like You, before permanent replacement Zakk Sandler[[note]]previously of Black Tide, and a former Escape the Fate touring bassist[[/note]]. Ryan Seaman left in 2017 and was replaced by [[Music/MotionlessInWhite Rage Richter]]
85	** Another round of this happened between 2016 and 2018, with Jacky Vincent leaving and being replaced by Christian Thompson, who left in 2018 after a torn rotator cuff and was replaced himself by Max Georgiev[[note]]another former Escape the Fate bassist[[/note]] and then Zakk Sandler switched to guitar and keyboards and the empty bass slot was filled by Tyler Burgess.[[note]][[RunningGag ANOTHER]] former Escape the Fate touring bassist[[/note]]
86	* RockMeAsmodeus: "Don't Mess With Ouija Boards" uses a DealWithTheDevil as a metaphor for a self-destructive music career.
87	* SanitySlippageSong: "I'm Not a Vampire" starts with the narrator comparing himself to various supernatural creatures as metaphors for his self-destructive habits, and ends with him declaring that he's going to hell and taking everyone else down with him, completely giving in to them.
88	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The focus of many of their songs, most notably "I'm Not a Vampire", although it, among others, also brings up the distinctly unsexy parts of it, such as via its NauseaFuel-inducing descriptions of the effects of Ronnie's drug habit and [[ItMakesSenseInContext embedded vomiting sound effect]].
89	* StockMonsterSymbolism:
90	** "I'm Not a Vampire" uses vampirism as a metaphor for drug addiction.
91	** The "Popular Monster" music video, stated via WordOfGod to be about "what happens when you're pushed too far", features Ronnie succumbing to rage and turning into a werewolf.
92	** "ZOMBIFIED" uses zombies as a metaphor for comformity and "cancel culture".
93	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: ''Fashionably Late'' focuses more on rap, pop, and electronic elements, making it lighter than Falling In Reverse's other albums, but the acoustic-led "Keep Holding On" and "Drifter" still stand out as compared to a guitar and synth-heavy album.
94	* TakeThat: Most of their first album, especially songs like "Caught Like a Fly", "Tragic Magic", and "Raised by Wolves", is a TakeThat to Music/EscapeTheFate, with lyrics like ''"I just learned that my fate is something I can't escape"'', ''"This war is mine"'' (in response to ETF's album ''This War Is Ours''), and ''"I dug a hole ten miles wide, so I could throw all of you inside."''
95	* TakeThatCritics: "Alone" and "Losing My Life" consist of Ronnie saying that he doesn't care what the haters say about him and/or directing insults to them.
96	* TheFourChordsOfPop: ''Coming Home'' bonus track "Paparazzi", a song in the style of a mass-produced pop song that parodizes mass-produced pop songs, alludes to the four-chord structure as part of the problems with mass-produced pop in its opening lines. [[HypocriticalHumor It also uses the structure itself.]]
97	-->''Yo, here's another song for the kids to sing to\
98	With the same four chords, just another hit single\
99	And your radio station plays the same three tracks\
100	That's nine total minutes we could never get back''
101	* TurningIntoYourParent: Used dramatically in "I Don't Mind", in which Ronnie states that his worst fear, embodied by him [[WhenYouComingHomeDad not seeing his daughter due to his career]], is turning out like his MissingMom.
102	* UncleSamWantsYou: A FreezeFrameBonus in the "ZOMBIFIED" music video includes a poster of a zombie Uncle Sam with the line "I want to eat your brains".
103	* VampiresAreSexGods: Alluded to in "I'm Not a Vampire", in which being able to lure any woman into his bed is one of Ronnie's stated vampire-like qualities.
104	* WakeupMakeup: The music video for "The Drug in Me Is You" starts with Ronnie waking up with eyeliner on, somehow.
105	* WhereIsYourXNow: The final [[MetalScream metal-screamed]] line in Popular Monster's pre-breakdown hook is "Where the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] is your god now?"

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