👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird, and frankly, quite pretty sounding thing called, quote-unquote,
"Escape the Fate - Picture Perfect."
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Now, before we get bogged down in what exactly that even means , let's just acknowledge a little bit of the ridiculousness. It sounds like something you'd find wedged between a really aggressive flamingo and a very well-ironed poodle, right? 30% power ballad, 20% meticulously styled boy perfection, 10% vaguely unsettling, 59% a desperate attempt at looking pretty . Basically – here's the breakdown, in the most unnecessarily detailed way possible: "Escape the Fate - Picture Perfect, as far as we can glean from the internet and whatever cryptic press release we stumbled upon, is a really specific, aggressively manufactured brand of teen-idol/one dude band that somehow achieved peak 2010. It’s about this… veneer, okay? They look like they've spent an embarrassing amount of time in front of the CVS phototoxin booth, desperately trying to convince you of what it feels like when the last shred of teenage angst is plastered onto a perfectly polished, bubblegum pink package. The name itself is a gorgeous little contradiction. — The Fate (the band) were escaping something, we assume! And they wanted that "Picture Perfect," that glossy magazine cover shot of the year
