tfgba drunk commentary 2024 

hi all i hope you know i dont really hate plastic death (think i said that in the commentary lol) i’m just so critical of it at the moment because it’s brand new and i just moved past that era. i like it for different reasons and feel i achieved new highs on it in many ways. probably in 5 years i’ll get drunk and listen and realize how hard i’d been on it… but every single thing i’ve made was in some way against what came before, tfgba was very much anti-casio dad which was against the much sillier music i was making before that. & i find myself taking inspiration from this era of my creative output now that i feel genuinely removed from it

i'm afraid that someday j will say “you know” to me and i won't know

J you're so real i will run away from home and (maybe) start hrt

i'm 14, trans and live somewhere where the penalty for being lgbtq+ is prison + a non-enforced death sentence. i'm baissicaly stuck here until i finish school at 18 and go off somewhere else for college and can't access any care at all. the only way i found to calm myself when feeling like shit was by listening to music, especially more energetic music and ESPECIALLY music about being lgbtq+, and this band was how i found that out, along with also finding out i was trans due to relating really hard to yoshi's island and bedroom community, so this album holds a really special place in my heart. thank you classic j

artists will really make the greatest thing you have ever heard and then be like 'nah this sucks'

52:01 really feel this tho because i think i literally lied to myself and convinced myself i was enby for over a year and a half after coming out as a girl and still have trouble just admiting being a girl, so idk just this context really solidifies this as one of my absolute favorite songs ( this just made me realize i dont like going by she/they either)

Hi, J. As a young trans girl (I'm 19 as of writing this) who is still closeted, finding this album a few months ago really effected me on a personal level. The super in-your-face trans lyrics and catchy melodies and emotional vocals resonated with me in a way that most albums haven't. I just want to thank you for like, the happiness and euphoria (and healthy sadness) this album has brought me. Your "meltdown" in this vid about transitioning has really made me want to come out, and I think I will soon, so uhhh... wish me luck? Oh and hearing you mention Daniel Johnston is so awesome. He's one of my biggest inspirations with my own music as well. "Maybe transition would have saved Rivers Cuomo" - Classic J, 2024

9:17 one of these days j may play the buddy holly solo in bedroom community live and we will never know until the day it does or doesnt happen

this is so fucking unserious but this video feels like talking to a friend you haven't seen in a long time over drinks n just catching up it has a nice feel to it

casually drops this masterspiece of a video

You called tfgba album messy in the beginning and I want to explain why I personally really enjoy that aspect of it. Life is messy. And I feel like tfgba is very much about life, struggling with depression and not having a good home life, struggling with being trans and being unable to find a place to fit in and feel safe. The album spoke to me heavily with its disorganized feeling, how it's all over the place and every song is incredibly different. Bone skull and Dallas are my two favorites off of this album and it's for how "out of place" they seem in the album. It's this hard rock emo album until those songs + (forever?????????) And I love how it reflects the messiness and unpredictability of life. But maybe that's just me! :)

can never listen to glass beach again without thinking "wow... someone fucked to this"

I don't know what I was expecting out of this video, but it certainly wasn't what I ended up getting ily j. I've been a closeted t girl for over 3 years now and I just finally turned 18 so it's legal for me to medically get prescription hrt in my state so there's more pressure from myself and my friends to come out to my family now. I've been out to my close friends and brother for months now but I hit a hurdle when it comes to my parents, as their perception of me is very important to me (perhaps falsely so but idc). A few weeks ago I set up a plan with my brother to come out in the coming days but as it's gotten close I've had a major influx of anxiety around the situation and thought about backing out but hearing your positivity has given me a burst of confidence I think. Your music has meant a lot to me over the past 4 years and like damn idk I just have such a large appreciation for this album. It's crazy hearing you name drop some emo bands that have been an inspiration for me to get into music recently I feel like a child screaming and pointing at the shiny things. I look forward to future glass beach thingies AND I WILL NOT DISAPPOINT I WILL START HRT MA'AM.

Damn... just damn. I am so happy I was introduced to your music. It was the start of high school and I was so depressed and suicidal(never attempted but was contemplating it almost every single day). I just felt like someone in the wrong body. Like I just felt wrong all the time. My cousin wanted me to listen to an album and I just said sure why not. OMG this album changed me literally. This album really helped me find out about who I truly am. Bedroom community resonated with me, but I never knew why until around the 3rd semester of my freshman year. It helped me figure out I am a trans woman. Thankfully my mother is super cool with who I really am. I'm now going into my senior year in high school and I am a proud trans girl loving life and loving myself! Thank you J and everyone else who worked on this life changing album. I can not thank you all enough. Like you all literally saved my life. Sadly no HRT cause I have no job and have no money, but after high school and when I get a job that is my number 1 priority!!

55:13 someone should update the genius page for orchids and just write "it's about balls"

Shout outs to drunk girls

holy shit its tfgba drunk commentary 2024

this is the holy grail

for a girl like me this is a foundational text

gonna be a smidge sappy in the youtube comments for a second--when i first heard this album i knew i could talk to you again. it's so sensitive and introspective, i felt it came from such a thoughtful and reflective place and my heart ached for you and all you've been through. i'm glad you've reached a place where you can listen to this album and empathize with the person you were when you wrote it, because i care for her too :)

this video has made me wanna live a little more tbh so thank you j

sorry if it looks like im commented twice but the first isn't showing up for me so ill paraphrase what I said before. ty for making this album, for all the shit you give it it really helped me at the lowest point in my life. as a closeted trans girl it means a lot that someone like me got and survived and started living. so thanks for that also did you get Patricia Taxxon to sing on classic j gets 1 million streams on spotty Spotify or am I hallucinating that. anyways hope you have a good day

As a 15 yr old trans girl this album was genuinely one of the things that made my life better, from understanding my gender identity to just having something to listen to make me feel better ❤❤ Thank you for the drunk commentary J

13:08 WHAAT BONE SKULL IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS LIKE EVER

14:24 J I ALSO LOVE THAT OUTRO! THIS PART IS GENUINELY MY FAVORITE LIKE SECTION OF THE ALBUM! I FEEL SO MUCH EVERY SINGLE TIME IT COMES I GET CHILLS ITS SO GOOD

thank you j

the part from 52:30 has hit me very hard, but tbh is very helpful....

i haven’t listened to tfgba in years and it’s so surreal to rediscover it from when i was first going through moving out and transitioning vs now as a trans guy, thank you

glass beach (as well as casio dad) helped me a lot with figuring myself out. i’m still a trans girl stuck in my bedroom community kind of wanting to die but this album comforts me a lot and i really appreciate all you’ve made. it probably doesn’t mean much coming from random youtube commenter but you kinda saved my life, and it’s really nice hearing what it was like for you making it 💖 -iris

Oh my god I think I get it now. I like tfgba more than plastic death and that bugged me. But tfgba grew on J because of the uneducated reviews and by comparing it to other project and that is why plastic death has gone a completely different direction with a weirder yet more polished sound. One of the biggest difference between the two album in my opinion is that tfgba is genreless because over the course of the album you have "every" genre while each song on plastic death is "every" genre which could stem from the critiques of tfgba that said it was unbalanced and lacked coherence (an oppinion I don't personnaly get). I love glass beach.

Also j your voice gives me gender envy y'know

55:59 idk what orchids is about but it’s my favorite song on the album (thank you for making the playlist version btw as much as I love the ambience for end of album vibes I also like to listen to singular songs on loop for several hours and it’s very helpful for that)

shout out to men and shout out to women fr fr!!! (for so many reasons this album means so much for me. There had never been a piece of work of any kind of media that I'd ever felt like I could actually relate to. This genuinely spoke to me so much when I was at a point when I felt like nobody could hear me, and here was someone who was saying all the things I wanted to say. It being just so raw in both the lyrics and music in a lot of points really helped. I got a tattoo for a reason thank you j ur very epic and awesome ily)

I listen to this album around 8 times a day so this is a pretty refreshing video

Hey j, it’s 03:33 rn (spooktacular) and I have had so many thoughts that live in this album and just wanna put them in a place. A friend turned partner turned no longer speaking anymore introduced me to this record in the winter of 2022 right after I started questioning my identity and it formed the keystone of the bridge I walked across to get to the girl I am now. I remember getting the bus to and from college and I’d get to certain places on the route as certain songs would hit, and of a morning I’d fall asleep on the way there from staying awake all night with the trans (🏳️‍⚧️) tunes still playing. I also wanted to talk about this sense of oceanic depth that this album (and PD too acc) have. This bottomless and floating feeling lives inside the synths in Forever and Bedroom Community, in the swelling of Blood rivers and Bone Skull and in the marimba section of Dallas, and it makes me feel so happy I found my way through that quagmire (from family man) of confusion. I was floating on the surface of something I was scared to look in the eye. This album gave me a reason to swim. This was a video I didn’t know I didn’t need until I had it, it’s like having a real heart to heart with a (slightly tipsy) mum/aunt/friend/godless heathen who actually supports and has my interests at heart. Sorry for the ancient scroll I’ve just unfurled here. I lied I’m not actually sorry I dod this because I wanted to - Sophie

awesomesauce…

this made me appreciate this album more than i ever did before, thank you for all the amazing music j, your voice is so beautiful

i love you j

New J upload!!

1:14:34 I know this is an oddly specific thing but, as a massive insomniac, this rant really really touched me. It's amazing to hear someone I already respect so much put into words something that I've been feeling my whole life way better than I ever could. This comment was typed at 5:28am, for reference.

hey j, thanks for this video. hits really hard right now. recently realized i was bi, came out to my nb crush and we're dating now. i've been a fan of this album for years now but it feels like now i understand it better. i've been listening to it a ton over the last month or so (even as a plastic death stan) and it's really cool to hear about some of the feelings behind the record, especially now that i relate to a lot of the themes here more directly. dunno what im trying to get at in this comment but yeah it's really cool to hear one of my long-time favorite albums from a new perspective

hi! i hope its not too much pressure if i say your music changed my life ^_^ I attended the austin show back in april and it kind of cracked my egg a little bit. seeing the crowd all supportive of each other and happy being themselves gave me the feeling that it wasnt quite a pipe dream to love myself. i had known subconsciously for years, and gone through a lot of shit that could have been avoided if i knew at the time, but i wouldnt have it any other way. im 2 months on e now, and im the happiest ive ever been.

I sing Calico to my cat while hugging her on an every other day basis. Underrated song

rat castle is filler in the same way cure for the itch is on hybrid theory, it played shortly after saying "this song is so depressing, one day i might write a song that doesnt make you wannna..." and i think thats what rat castle is? 58 minutes of soul crushing stuff and then just a two minute interval of "filler" that evens out the tone because music isnt just to make you feel and reflect on sadness but also just to express literally anything

Thank you for saying the words I needed to hear ❤ and also making me laugh a lot lol

thanks for making this album it legit did make me transgender

j thank you for sharing I'm glad you weren't as sad as you expected talking about it!

27:52 i know you weren’t talking to me in particular and i’m hoping i’m talking into the void for my sanity’s sake, i’ll try not to. but thank you it’s been rough since ending up in florida, and having recently run out of hrt. this album was there when i first realized i was trans and it conveyed everything i was going through at the time perfectly. at least now i’m not dealing with my family, thanks again and i’ll try to make it through.

i remember when i put on tfgba at a secondary school graduation party 1:43:26 going on in a friends shed 3 years ago, everyone there was pretty queer so i figured they'd enjoy it and then as soon as bedroom community's "no" part comes on the meanest kid there said it sounded like shit and hijacked my spotify queue [which is a feature i learned about In That Moment] to play queen while the rest were too reserved and quiet to really argue against them i guess it just really hit me then how, weird and messy this album is. and how i love it so much for it i didn't really talk to these guys much after that because the experience made me feel pretty crappy but it made me embrace being weirder more bc i figured no matter how palatable i try to be, people are still gonna find something to get upset about

to forget gon’t be awesome

23:18 YES YES big ups william !! kara's walk home 4ever

i wonder if fantano would like the album more if he listened to the official youtube playlist that doesnt have planetarium for some reason

my hrt is through planned parenthood, im sure it varies but fwiw my doctor was super encouraging, it felt almost anticlimactically easy to get on estro, so if you don't wanna diy it i would recommend them if they offer it in ur area

please please take more inspiration from yamatsuka eye and experiment!!!!!!!!

I think I really connected to this album when I heard it the first time because I was also really angry and looking for community in despair. Hell, this album guided my hands towards making two trans characters who loved each other through all the horrors they each faced and I was obsessed with them because they gave me something to hope for! I needed that so badly!! I’ve screamed along to yoshis island and yoshis island things 04 with my best friend because it was pretty much the best outlet we had to express our frustration with the state of the world and our simultaneous love for it, and for each other. We’re doing better now but living as a trans/generally queer person is rocky and I think the beauty of this album that drew me to it from the moment I listened to soft is that it’s not just giving a space to really feel that despair and anger, it’s also like it’s patting you on the back and saying “I’ve been there too man, don’t think you’re the only ones going through this and don’t think this shit isn’t fucked. Let’s stick together”.

no.. why would you post this.. ive been months clean from parasocial relationships

Hey this album is kinda what made me ask myself if I'm trans back in like 2021 so like thanks

thanks j, gotta say i loved hearing your thoughts on dallas in particular. i love that song, of course the whole album makes me feel seen but that song really hits the nail on the head emotionally. ive done a lot of thinking and contemplating and Freaking Myself Out, and i'm very scared of myself and scared to come out, but i have been thinkin' about it lately like, after 3 + 1/2 years im running out of ways to justify staying totally boarded up for several More years. dallas for me speaks to how hostile the environment and everything surrounding you can feel basically like you said i do hope you really do come back and do a commentary like this on plastic death in five years! :p i could literally talk about that album non stop Forever!!! wow i am soooo sleepy. i need to sleep. but like plastic death yaknow. Plastic Death its such a great name for that album the themess of it are just So resonant with that just Perpetual Closetedness and how stagnancy just slowly tears u apart ...whereas tfgba feels like Oh God Every-Thing Is Changing And Its Scary And Exciting a lot of the time. like it talks about stagnancy too but - the albusm go well together! i think that whole Anti-What-We-Just-Did thing made PD compliment TFGBA so well like that. wow i sound soooo stupid im delirious i got to sleep but like ... music. glass beach, its cool thannnnnnnnnks j. bye . rambly blah

transformation game boy advance is my favorite glass beach album

j I would go bonkers right now btw

I really love the general discord in this album. The contrast of the smoother elements and the very harsh elements is really striking and engaging. I can’t connect with the trans elements on account of being a cis man but I still think this album is incredibly important even if I can’t connect to it in that way.

It feels so fucking great hearing J defend Planetarium and say it’s a really good song because IT IS!!!! It’s so alluring and experimental and the part with the alliteration is mind numbingly good!!!!! Planetarium haters do NOT interact u do NOT get music (jokes) (well, half jokes)

glass beach band

30:38 working on it

j are you building an army of trans people that you helped create and find themselves so that they’ll be loyal to you and you can overthrow the government and declare yourself the empress to make a bunch of laws that make people lives better and instate a democracy that works better than the current one and then everyone will be happy

1:14:40 - 1:15:59 felt beyond belief

good album!!!!!!! i love this album a lot :) 1:54:12 oh my god vulfpeck mention

still my favorite album still my favorite band still my favorite artist to sign my jerma

this is so cool

1:12:50 every single time j has spoken even slightly negatively about weezer or being compared to weezer in even the most joking of ways is now invalid. sorry but thats like the rivers thing. hes the influenced by the beach boys guy

j i love you where is the honest kids costume

is this a official release

this is awesome

😮

:3

this is so cool !!!!!!!!!!! wowie

in short, ❤

this is so good asuidjkfnfxcxcvb

55:37 girlballs

You listen to godspeed?

i love you j