The song Paramore won’t perform anymore, “Misery Business,” is on there too, as well as Panic! At the Disco’s ridiculously titled “Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off.” Songs that I literally wouldn’t hear for another decade at least, like Minus the Bear’s “Knights,” made the cut. My impression of it isn’t particularly good, but it’s kind of there from some angle I haven’t found yet. Taking Back Sunday’s “MakeDamnSure” is so stuck in my head, I learned it on guitar this past summer amidst pandemic boredom and isolation. The setlist on the radio station was packed with bangers that’ve stuck with me long after I stopped playing Saints Row 2, though I guess even now I haven’t really put the game behind me. Adorably, it was also before I cursed regularly, so I’d censor myself so as to not get whooped by my aunt. This was back before I knew that most people find it annoying when others just belt out every word to every song they hear, especially if they’re butchering it, as I likely was.
I absolutely lost it every time My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers” would play. My favorite song that’d come on was one I didn’t even know was from one of my favorite bands growing up. I’ve never heard so much Jet as when I flitted back and forth between these games for weekends on end. At about the same time that 11-year-old me was playing this on my cousin’s PS3, they also had Rock Band, so I was just absolutely inundated with the stuff. Generation X was home to a lot of early 2000s punk, emo and alternative music, which would end up not just defining my tastes but awakening me to music in general.
Veteran Child may have been a mistake but his taste in music kind of slapped. So yes, just all around yikes, but bear with me for just a second.
In Saints Row 2, there is a radio station called Generation X, operated by a…white Rastafarian burnout named Veteran Child, who I just discovered is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris. While nothing good could presumably come out of playing a 13-year-old game that has aged so incredibly poorly, I did manage to enjoy my time with it for one particular reason. Last week, I randomly booted up Saints Row 2 for the hell of it.
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