Christian Electro-Butt Rock?? The Mystery of Family Force 5
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2024
- I come from the land where the mullet attacks... business up front, party in the back!
Today, we explore the wild, surprising world of Atlanta, Georgia's premier Christian rap/butt rock group, from their days as a young Christian boy band, all the way to their adulthood final-form as the Christian LMFAO... sit back with me, and hold up, wait a minute... we're gonna put a little love in it!
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My little Christian, conservative, southwestern town once closed down an entire street because family force 5 was playing a concert. That was my introduction to these guys lol.
we had Skillet around here. fucking lamest band I've ever had the displeasure to be preached to by.
"Unintentionally watched their entire set while waiting for another band at warped tour" is such a mood
Never thought I’d see a ff5 video ever.
Crouton sounds like the "it ain't much, but it's honest work" guy
Then he goes to church with his wife and 8 kids
I grew up in a strongly Christian household and wasn’t allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up and this was the first band I ever saw that could loosely be called punk or alternative. And they started my love for emo/pop-punk. I will always love these dudes for that
U poor soul
Same. I wasn't allowed to listen to rap or rock even if it was a Christian band. There was a girl in our youth group who pulled up the church listening to Thousand Foot Krutch and my dad heard it in the parking lot and told me I was never to hang out with her or talk to her outside of church.
Unbeknownst to my dad I got a ride to a church event from her and she introduced me to family Force 5 and that was my first hooray into that kind of music. Thanks Jennifer!
OH- weird fact: there's an unreleased Family Force 5 album that was recorded between Time Stand Still and the final EP. They did a whole tour (mostly of small church type venues) called something like "The Label Won't Let Us Release The Album So We're Gonna Play The Whole Thing Live For You Tour" or something like that.
Time Stand Still? The title reminds me of Rush. 🇨🇦
HOLD UP! WAIT A MINUTE!
PUT A LITTLE LOOOVVVEEE IN IT
34:30 as someone who was IN a crunkcore act starting around 2010, FF5 was DEFINITELY one of the influences lol
Granted, so were The Secret Handshake, Breathe Carolina, and Daft Punk
What was your band name?
@InkAndPoet xBRUTALCOREx. Whole thing was layered in heavy irony, but I feel like that was kinda the crunkcore scene. Our song "Shenanigans" was probably the best thing we put out if you're looking to hunt it down
Oh thank god I was this 🤏 close to thinking this band was a fever dream
I remember when they were on the cover of CCM (contemporary Christian music) Magazine and people wrote angry letters in about how their eyeliner was immoral 💀
They always towed an odd line as a Christian band, when I was a Christian I remember feeling conflicted about listening to Earthquake or Party Fowl because they almost felt TOO secular or sexual. I love them for it now though. They were true to themselves, no band like them
one time my little brother, who was like 12, saw Chapstique at a restaurant and borrowed a stranger's phone to call me about it. Chapstique ended up drawing a "draygon" (dragon) on a napkin for us and I still have it. Super nice dudes
Dance Or Die is a banger album. I'll die on that hill!
Business up front is a close second for me. I still jam out to these dudes to this day.
God, the hold this band had on me in middle school 😂 went to see them at this lovely little festival called Winter Jam that was kinda like a Christian warped tour lol no one ever knows who I'm talking about when I bring them up, so I'm happy to see you talk about them! Such a weird time 😂
Omg Winter Jam! Yessss!
Funny that you call it "little!" I remember it being touted as the "biggest tour in the world" some years ago. Apparently, according to Wikipedia, in 2011 they beat Bon Jovi, U2, Lady Gaga, Brad Paisley AND Justin Bieber in terms of attendance! And I think the fact that the tour survived COVID and is still going strong today is definitely a testament to how huge it has become. Were any of the people you mentioned it to Christian at any point? Because I'm pretty sure just about every Christian (or former Christian) not totally new to the faith and under the age of, like, 40 has at least heard of it. Just curious.
@@landonvincent7974 oh yeah, it was huge. It doesn't translate well over text, but I meant "lovely little festival" in kind of a jokey way lol the arena it was in every year was basically completely full, so I definitely believe it outselling some bigger acts! I remember it being hell trying to walk around during intermission lol and I've had mixed answers when bringing it up to both Christians and non Christians alike, some know and some don't. I'm not part of the church anymore so that's probably why I've gotten more answers of people not knowing. One thing is for certain though, the majority of people I've brought FF5 up to have no idea who they are even though they were big enough at one point to be at Winter Jam 😅 might not be a Christian anymore but going to that festival every year was my introduction to live music and I'm hella appreciative for that.
I interviewed these guys for the paper I wrote for. Great guys every one of them.
Ik a few of their former members have side projects rn. Soul Glo has a project with his wife called Yacht Money. Chapstique has a couple projects called Brique a Braque (instrumental piano stuff) and an alt-rock/pop project called Club Danger. Might be worth checking out.
As for the 2 remaining Olds Brothers, I don't know if they've done anything with music recently, but they're somewhat active on Instagram. I don't think NaDaddy has had any music projects since he left FF5 and seems to be "off the grid" for lack of a better term.
But yeah, super cool to see you cover a band that helped me discover my love alternative music. Growing up in a Christian household, I wasn't allowed to listen to much, but FF5 was the first band with "harsh vocals" I was allowed to listen to, and that definitely helped me develop my current music taste and love for heavy music.
I only listen to a couple of their songs but watched the Really Real Show all the time lol
Unironically one of the best shows in the mockumentary genre
Growing up my mom made me go to youth group which means I went to Christian music festivals and ended up seeing these guys live multiple times. I remember it being crazy fun
I love you vids so much! I’m a former scene kid and it’s get to reminisce. You’re killing it. ❤
I loved and still have love for family force 5. They were a big part of my teen years. Met the guys a couple times and they are very sweet and genuine people. Good times!!
When Soul Glo left, things were just never the same. I’ll always keep my fingers crossed they’ll do a reunion one day :( so many memories!
You and me both!! Hoping and praying for a Family Force 5 reunion tour one day…
My intro to FF5 was Earthquake, a friend of mine was super into 3oh!3 and found these guys. Super fun memories of bumping these guys on a tape deck headphone jack adapter in my 97 Mercury Sable.
FF5 was my jam as I was coming of age! Seen the a few times including at a local tiny church. Their Really Real Show on CZcams had me rolling. Love these guys ❤
Strangely enough, as a former Christian that grew up listening to southern-hip hop and pop-punk, their concept made immediate sense to me. Their style is very early 2000s Atlanta. Also, Jerome's music is reminiscent of southern soul. Southern soul is very region-specific. I'm from Alabama and it's commonly played on stations here. It's very 80s/synth sounding to this day.
The rebrand FF5 with just the 2 brothers has a 7 song album/ep. Its called El Compadre and is some of their best music to date
I’m so glad to see that you’re still uploading brother, you’re without a doubt my favourite CZcamsr of the 5 last years and I was in the middle of re-watching your AA series in it’s entirety for the tenth time when I saw this notification pop up and it’s filled me with immense joy and comfort as always!!
Thank you so much for everything that you do brother, please never stop, the world needs you!! ❤️
You mad lad. This is the video we’ve been waiting for
Thanks for the awesome vid, really made my partner and I feel old lawl. I got to see Family Force 5 play at the church in town when they had a like "cool kids" week (with skate ramps and velcro walls) to get the non religious kids in. It was surreal seeing "love addict" in a church I've been to before. We all got down as a group and prayed and stuff. It was fun. I also saw them at Warped with that big drum machine thing..
can't pretend i wasn't listening to iii yesterday 🤭
What a blast from the past, I remember seeing the video for Radiator on TV as a teenager and getting into the band through that. It's wild that even at age 28 I can still remember all the words to Country Gentleman.
I remember checking them out on MySpace and, like yourself, expecting a Cobra Starship like band and kind of scratching my head a bit. Got it more by the next album though... They even got featured on the Almost Alice soundtrack, which at the time felt like a huge soundtrack for the scene (made me hyped for a pretty disappointing movie!), and their track on it called Topsy Turvy was actually really great!
This band was my childhood. Thanks for the video. Sparked some memories.
can you make a video on holywood undead they have very interesting story going from a scientology myspace crunkcore band to a mainstream butt rock band
This is the band that got me into everything scene
Thanks for doing a spotlight on my favorite most influential band of all time!! Love them so much
Never heard of these guys before, awesome video! 😂
I believe "what in the Sam Hill" is the best description for them.
Oh my gawd that Skelanimals “Keep The Party Alive” track by them was my jam, thank you for delving into their history!! FF5 5Ever!
YESSSS I REMEMBER THAY
wake up babe cozy posted
Did you catch their christmas album "Christmas Pageant"? It's not on Spotify but you absolutely need to hear it.
YESSS It's still one of my favorite Christmas albums ever haha!
Love your videos hope you do a hellogoodbye deep dive some day!
I am 60 years old. And I still listen to them. Saw them in concert. It was amazing!
i only ever really was into one of their songs too lmao which is earthquake, and its forever a BANGER!
Cozy, you gotta drop some Spotify playlists one of these days. Like, your top albums/songs for genres/time periods/etc.! It’d be sick to see 💕
The hair is getting long! Looks good my guy! Love the videos!
I still remember attending a church weekend conference meet up at my high school my classmates were jealous to imagine them playing in out gym I definitely enjoyed in the time being one of my first early concerts experience in my school years with my local youth group
Bro this is so awesome you are talking about them. They kinda just dissapeared from my memory.
I was wondering if there was even a minute chance that you would cover this band since they seemingly had some overlap with that 2000s Warped Tour scene despite how different their sound was, but damn, the onion really goes a lot deeper than I ever imagined. I love that first album, especially as a nu-metal fan who loves seeing the genre-blending taken to its unhinged, goofy limits while still having that thumping rock backbone.
Omg I saw them live with my hs show bestie! It was SO funny. Someone was spinning on their head in the pit. I wanna go back. 😩
Get 5SOS on that tour
grew up christian & emo, now i'm only the latter but! here are some really solid † groups that fall under that scenemo, pop-punky umbrella:
-the classic crime
-nevertheless
-capital lights (aka aftereight)
-the almost
-relient k
-august burns red
-blessthefall
-ivoryline
-underoath (formerly)
-skillet
-fireflight
-flyleaf
-and of course, family force 5
feel free to add more!
sidebar: dead serious. family force 5 was played in a circle by our youth group leader. the energy was so strange and insane, super memorable
Thrice is the goat of Christian influenced music. At least their pre-hiatus albums are.
Tell me more about this circle 👀??
OMG YESSSS I LOVE THAT YOU COVERED FF5. I'll save it for later this week with some good snacks, I LOVE YOU
FF5 was one of the first bands I ever became obsessed with. Them and the David Crowder*Band made some of the most creative Christian music of the 2000s.
yo are you me? lol ff5 and dc*b were my two favorite bands at one point as a kid.
I dimly remember hearing them back in the day and being like “why tf is Kid Rock playing rn?” 😂
Ah, you did it. Thank you! This band was everything you said and more. The first album was and still is my fave FF5 album. They were all so talented and just genuinely nice guys. I followed them until Soli left and last I heard he was writing and producing for other artists and even won a grammy a few years back. I still have my hulk glove and all five of the individual magazine covers they were on at one point. 😅
OH MAN im so happy this video showed up in my algorithm! I grew up in rural Iowa, and discovered them in high school in 2006 after a friend saw them at a Christian music festival and brought back a CD, and i LOVED Business Up Front Party In The Back!! I got really sucked in around 2008 when i finally got to see them live, and then became OBSESSED 😂 Like i bought a The Brothers CD off ebay once. Im actually impressed, you taught me a few things from this video that i didnt know! Lol. I fell off the FF5 train soon before Soul Glow left the band. This was so fun watching this video, and getting the perspective of someone trying to figure them out after the fact, as opposed to me, who had to try figure them out in real time haha! I think i saw them about 8 times live. Man what a trip this band was! Thanks for doing his video!!!
God. I miss this band. Literally loved all their work since i was a kid. Still rock out to them this day
This is the second video of yours that I’ve seen recently where you mention The Ready Set! Thanks for shouting out my cousin!! Make sure you check out his new stuff!
This was a super fun watch! Thank you, Cozy!
never been this early, love your stuff dude! can't wait to learn about this
I love that you are talking about this band!
I LOVED FF5 back in the day! All the songs are still bops!
I remember I was so excited to see them at Warped Tour, but my friends & i got stuck in thr LONG line to buy tickets since we lost ours & FF5 was supposed to perform early & it kept getting later and later. A vendor came by to find helpers & asked "wanna get in for free? Just hang some posters for us."
The vendor took us through the staff entrance and all that stood between FF5 & I performing RIGHT THERE was a rinky metal fence. My little 15 year old heart started singing & staring at Soul Glow for the 5 seconds I got to see them lmao.
Then I tried their merch booth during the day, but it was just employees, not the band.
I was tripled pissed when at the end of the night, the vendor asked if we wanted to stay for the after show bonfire, but we needed an adult & my friend's strict mom was the one picking us up, not my cool dad 🙄 another loss of meeting them lol
Anyway "Dance or Die" is a scene kid masterpiece and I will never stop playing it 💕✨️
I'm a simple emo, I see a Cozy Rep. post and I click. ^-^
Cozy FF5 video? A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
FF5 is still one of my favorite Warped performances. They fell off hard once Soul Glow left, but they were a GEM of a group. Still haven't experienced anything quite like them
Edit: their last two albums definitely had more support from being more closely related to the Christian music circuit vs the secular realm. Youth groups everywhere here in the south were doing the Wobble 😂
I saw Family Force 5 many times over the years on Warped Tour. One of my favorite live acts from that time. Great video! Keep up the good work!
Geez this video took me all the way back! I remember Dance Or Die by this band and being into them when I was younger. I'm really into Christian hip hop like Lecrae and Tedashii and I remember both being on Family Force 5 's albums. Thanks to this I had to go back and rediscover this bands music. Awesome video as always!
YESSSS!!!! Finalllyyyy! Thank you cozy!
Thanks for bringing these guys back up! I'm pretty sure Soul Glow is a producer nowadays, but you never know. Maybe they will get back together at some point. They had quite the cult following for a while there. Really good stuff!
Replace me is one of my favorite songs too! And it is 100% a Christian song about giving yourself fully to God.
I played on a festival with them years ago. They put on a good show actually.
I almost threw up when he said no one knows who bell biv devoe is. WHAT?!?!?
I've never been more confused about a band. But yet again, TheCozyRep and weed come to the rescue. This was too interesting🤣
I love family force 5. They had a CZcams channel too from back in the day and it’s so hilarious. I still watch the videos sometimes to get a good laugh.
Wow thanks youtube. Stopped getting notifications for you out of nowhere and i miss you covering one of my favorite goofy scene bands! Im here now dammit!
You Lift Me Up by Jerome Olds is a fucking banger yo, thanks for the recommendation
I’m a new subscriber. Been watching hella vids and I was just thinking about this band before getting on CZcams and boom. Here this is. What a trip. 😅
i loveeeeeed family force 5 😭 so neat to learn more about their upbringing
Huh- interesting hearing about both before and after I popped in at Dance or Die and their origins. They had a thing and they were rocking it! I always loved their song "How In The World" since high school, the lyric "How in the world- did I find someone like you?" is so sweet 😊
22:40 straight up sounding like the Beastie Boys I love it!
Love your content dude. Reminds me of my scene/emo days.
Dance or Die is my absolute fave by them
DUDE U UNLOCKED A MEMORY FOR ME
Those late 80s Jerome Olds records seem right up my alley.
I've seen them live so many times. Craig furgason has introduced to me so many random bands. Lol Even went to some Christian festivals just to see these dudes. Still have my Ugly people put your hands down shirt, signed poster and dance or die vinyl. 😂
Lets gooo been wanting this one 🙌
I'm glad you came to understand FF5 lol. I saw them live and it was so fun.
This is perfect timing. I just remembered them last week after not having thought about them since I was in middle school.
I saw them several times and they were always really good and I always digged their sound,It was different but in the best way even met them at a Warped Tour once.
These guys were frequently played on the Youth group playlist when I was a freshman in around 2013. Saw them live at the Rock and Worship roadshow. This was before I figured out who I was and what I believed but they're good.
Julian once again introducing me to some insane shit I wouldn't have ever listened to or thought I'd like despite having strong connections to everything else I like...
It’s wild seeing people who are being introduced to Family Force 5 in 2024 considering I saw them live when I was in high school.
ooooo I can't wait to get into this. a group photo of FF5 and my friends was my myspace pic for the longest time
Eye love this band! Thanks for the deep dive. You didn't mention The Really Real Show. Oversight or not the focus of this?
Them initially signing to Maverick is really funny when you realized Madonna created that label
i wonder if they knew about the controversy of Like A Prayer's music vid lol
That was a Catholic controversy, not Christian.
@@stinghouseproductions8502 ah I see
Still kinda funny tho
This is amazing. I loved them back in the day. I remember ditching school to go meet them at my local Starbucks bc they tweeted out for people to come hang got a group photo with our Starbucks in hand with them. Good times
It was like listening to BOTDF, Dot Dot Curve and Brokensyde but danceable because you didn’t have to worry if the band members were pdf. Files
just joined patreonnnnnn
went to college with a dude who's favorite band was these guys and he would feign punches at me to see if i flinched
My favorite band from 7th grade to 9th grade. Now mostly listen for nostalgia but Dance or Die is still a really solid album.
i love your channel bro
Love this stuff
This was such a fun video! I’ve always been curious about this band. Thank you for your work on it!
i'm so jealous, i wish i was as unaffiliated with christianity as you are. what i wouldn't give to have to use google to learn about third day 😭
when you played the walk on water clip my jaw dropped because i totally heard that song back then and it was the last thing i would've been expecting leading up to that point because that song is very of the time and was very mainstream in the scene of peppy christian music
God I want an og lineup reunion tour so bad.
I love ready everyone’s personal stories of growing up listening to this band. I was raised Catholic so at 13 I was listening to NIN and Slayer. The more sacrilegious the better. I never heard about FF5 til college when a Christian Juggolette told me about them.