Marketing is officially being helmed by middle-aged Millennials as evidenced today by the release of an emo EP from Wendy\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Wendy\u2019s is not a band you haven\u2019t heard of. It is exactly the entity you were thinking of when you said to yourself, \u201cWendy\u2019s? Like the fast food place?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Songs to Listen to in a Wendy\u2019s Parking Lot EP (stream it below) is what happens when people who were teenagers in decade that followed the turn of the millennium and emotionally imprinted on the scratched surface of a Taking Back Sunday CD find themselves in marketing positions and seek the solace of nostalgia that they can\u2019t find in being able to afford a house.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s far too much analysis already. The six-song EP is fun and features singers from Memphis May Fire, Anberlin, Silverstein, blessthefall, State Champs, and Holy Wars baring their angst about burgers, fries, nuggets and a cold Frosty with pithy titles like \u201cThe Best Combo Meal on the Worst Night of My Life.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can hear Beau Bokan of blessthefall belt out that one and sing lines like \u201cI\u2019ll take another Dave single cause I\u2019m single again.\u201d Other singers on the EP include Matty Mullins, Chloe Kinnon, Shane Told, Derek DiScanio, and Kat Leon. Online credits say that the EP is a collaboration between Wendy\u2019s and Rise Records.<\/p>\n
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Wendy\u2019s hinted at going emo earlier this week when online images of their red-headed logo got a new swoop of hair over one eye and thicker eyeliner for the other while her pigtail ribbons and collar were dyed black.<\/p>\n
Songs to Listen to in a Wendy\u2019s Parking Lot adds to the paper trail that someone in the restaurant\u2019s promotional department is still blacking their eyes. In 2019, on national #NationalRoastDay, the fast-food chain took shots<\/a> at Miss May I, Atreyu, Hopeless Records, and Victory Records, hinting at someone in the company having a fondness for the heavy and emotional sounds of the early 2000s. Two of the bands from the current EP got burned seven years ago, with Wendy\u2019s lobbing humorous insults at Memphis May Fire and State Champs. Then there\u2019s that time Capital Vices and Makena played in a Wendy\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n It really wasn\u2019t just a phase for someone at Wendy\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marketing is officially being helmed by middle-aged Millennials as evidenced today by the release of an emo EP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-633911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}