![]() But to understand why it's been so durable, it's useful to remember just how big a smash "Last Resort" was when it was just a rock song - back when rock songs could be cultural touchstones. "Last Resort" is a gift that keeps giving social media new ways to laugh. If, as Amanda Hess wrote recently, none of us are safe from getting "owned," "Last Resort" is the anthem of the owned-but-owning-it, the internet loser's performative cry of pain, the cuck's winking lament. Used alike by devastated sports fans, cackling Keksters, Obama nostalgists, and rankled cultural commentators, the song serves now as an ironized shorthand for letting something get under your skin, for caring too much, for losing and then getting into your feelings. The punchline, of course, is the notoriously melodramatic opening couplet - "CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES / THIS IS MY LAST RESORT" - which singer Jacoby Shaddix screams a capella, in a verge-of-tears staccato.Īnd though it leads into a song about a very unfunny subject - suicide - the lines, in all of their uncomfortably emotional glory, have recently become a kind of joking social media mantra of exasperation, sadness, and defeat. "The punchline hits the moment you press play. ![]() "It's the perfect joke, that song," Halpern told BuzzFeed News. What is it about this song that caused such an intense reaction? And what is so damn funny about Paul Ryan listening to "Last Resort"? Seventeen years after its biggest song, a band that Spin described at the time as "the latest in midline nu-metal minstrelsy" had landed, mirthfully, at the center of the news cycle. N.E.R.D.(A spokesperson for Ryan declined to comment about Papa Roach.)
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