Another week, another Wednesday. It’s Smokey Goretooth again with a new “Do I Suck?,” MetalSucks’ version of “Am I The Asshole?” where we take your horror stories and ultimately decide if you suck for some bullshit you may or may not have done.
Today’s installment comes from Molly, who’s wondering if she’s a dick because she thinks someone in her boyfriend’s band is hot. Let’s see what she has to say…
I really wasn’t trying to upset my boyfriend at all, but he brought it up and asked me first, and I just wanted to be honest.
For context, my boyfriend plays bass in a band in our hometown. They’re not super huge or anything, but people around here know who they are and they’ve got fans that’ll travel around locally to see them. My boyfriend has four bandmates (two guitarists, the vocalist, the drummer, and him on bass) and all of them are pretty attractive, but the lead guitarist is honestly hot. Girls are always drooling over him at shows which I think is a bit much since he’s not like, Hasan Piker hot, but more like a long haired Timothee Chalamet-type of hot, if that helps to paint a picture.
So anyway, my boyfriend’s band played a show last weekend and the guitarist in question, let’s call him “Adam” had like five different girls come up and try and get his number and personal Instagram and stuff. I guess at one point my boyfriend was talking to Adam and a girl came up and interrupted their conversation to do this, and that really ticked him off. We were hanging out a day or two after they played that show and out of nowhere my boyfriend’s all “I really don’t fuckin understand why everyone likes Adam so much.” This is where everything started to go downhill.
After he said this, I kinda just stared at him for a little bit before finally asking him what made him say that. He said he just doesn’t get why everyone always comes up to talk to him and think he’s so cool and stuff. So I said that people also think he’s cool and that maybe people don’t come up to him as much because he doesn’t stand right at the front of the stage. Maybe he could tell I wasn’t being totally truthful, because then he just straight up asked me “do you think Adam’s hot?”
I probably should’ve lied, or done a better job at being truthful, but I kinda just stood there for a second trying to figure out how to respond. I settled on something like, “well, he’s not not hot,” which as you can imagine didn’t really help the situation. My boyfriend then goes, “you know I can play guitar, too!” before walking off all huffy and puffy. He can play guitar but I mean, he’s the bassist for a reason.
I tried to follow after him but he didn’t wanna talk so I texted him later that day to check in on him and he said he was fine, but that he was tired of not getting as much attention as everyone else because he can play just as well and that he’s not ugly (he’s not) and blah blah. It’s been a few days since this happened, but occasionally he’ll say things like “oh well I’m sure your new boyfriend Adam could do that better,” or “You probs think this would look better on your boyfriend Adam huh?” It all just seems kinda immature to me, but I do feel bad that it upset him so much.
Do I suck for thinking my boyfriend’s guitarist is hot, even though it’s not something I ever bring up or care to act on?
It seems like Molly really struck a chord with her boyfriend, and not one that hits the ears very well. Bandmates are basically like siblings that can get jealous of one another for random things, but it’s always the bassist who acts like the biggest baby.
What do we think, suckers? Does Molly truly suck for this?