jxdn

 One Liner: Another emo rapper dabbling in bad pop punk after becoming TikTok famous

Wikipedia Genre: Rock, pop punk, emo rap
Home:  L.A. (previously in Chatanooga, TN)

Poster Position: 14
Weekend Two Only.

Friday at 2:30 on the Honda Stage.

Thoughts:  Another skinny white emo rapper guy who sounds like he's rapping over Travis Barker drums?  Apparently, you pronounce this name as "Jaden." The guy's name is really Jaden Hossler, and Wikipedia tells me to write the band name in all lower case and pronounce as Jaden.  Which, mmkay.  He was born in Texas but then moved to Tennessee, so I vote that they have to claim him.

No actual albums yet.  The biggest hit, by a ton, is "ANGELS & DEMONS" with 102.6 million streams.

Okay.  So, we're doing a model shoot that just happens to involve lip synching a terrible Post Malone copycat thing?  God that sucks.  Watching him thrash his frosted tips repeatedly to convey all of his emotion is brutal.  I deserve hazard pay.

His Wikipedia also explains why we are stuck with him - TikTok.  In 2019, he joined and over the next few months he gained millions of followers before being asked to join the Sway House.  WTF is that?  Apparently there is a house in L.A. where a bunch of very popular TikTok personalities all just live and make their little videos?  "It is a collaborative content house, allowing the different influencers and content creators to make videos together easily."  I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.  This article just told me that if I haven't heard of Sway House, then I probably have a mortgage.  Well, up yours too.  But I actually like this line "If you were to mock up a pop culture family tree, Sway House would be the Gen Z problem child of The Real World, Jackass, and Meekus from Zoolander."  The house was founded by agents, and populated with 7 good looking dudes who already had big follower counts.  The article says that jxdn left the house in May 2020 after a road trip led to an arrest on drug charges.  So, this is why we now know about this doofus.

Ahhh!  And he got signed to Travis Barker's label!  I knew this sounded like the trademark Barker pounding.  Is that three guys coming to ACL this year all with Barker ties?  Four?  Is he like the Bill Belicheck of emo pop punk with his own coaching tree?  That is weird.

His Wikipedia says that he attempted suicide twice during his senior year of high school, and he's spoken some about that in his lyrics.  The third song is called "BETTER OFF DEAD" and includes this line (super repeatedly) "cloudy with a chance of depression" and then followed up with "cloudy with a chance of anxiety."  The thing that is strangest about that is the background music is a sing/song tune and a poppy trap beat.  Doesn't seem to match the downer lyrics.  

"Comatose" is his second most streamed track.  Hey, shocker, he is thrashing his frosted tips in that one too.

Holy shit.  Usually, when I watch a video for a song, it makes me like it more.  With both of these tracks, I absolutely thought they were pretty harmless and okay, until I watched these videos, and now I deeply hate this guy.

I'm sure he'll have a massive crowd and everyone will talk up about how they got to see those frosted tips get tossed in real life, but I wouldn't go watch this one if THE HYPE BEAST paid me to go.  AND NO, JASON, IF YOU ARE READING THIS, WE ARE NOT GOING TO WATCH THIS GUY!