Some 2014 predictions: In the coming year, here’s what you’re going to see, in gaming, television, movies and music. (Just because I’m pretty sure I’m a psychic.)
A Day To Remember’s Jeremy McKinnon
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1. A Day To Remember will be a Warped Tour headliner. — With one of the biggest album releases of the year (Common Courtesy) and a recent change in label, ADTR will undoubtedly be looking to hit the road this summer, and a Warped homecoming for them is overdue.
2. Fearless Records’ trophy bands will put out at least four studio albums, namely Pierce the Veil, Motionless in White, Breathe Carolina, and maybe recent signee Real Friends. — Fearless Records does one thing really well. They are consistent. Pierce the Veil, Motionless in White and Mayday Parade are some of the most productive bands I’ve ever seen. Mayday Parade has not had a single year in the last 6 years without some sort of release, (EP, studio album, compilation appearance, etc.) and Pierce the Veil consistently does full records every other year. This year, most of their bands’ patterns line up.
Childish Gambino (Donald Glover)
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3. Childish Gambino will close the small stage (Grove) at Lollapalooza. — With Childish Gambino already appearing on festival lineups all over the place, he will surely find a place at Lollapalooza. With last year’s Grove closer being Chance the Rapper, it makes more than perfect sense for Childish Gambino/Troy Barnes/Donald Glover’s comeback to be the biggest act on the smallest stage.
4. The final episode of “How I Met Your Mother” will heavily involve that hideous yellow umbrella, and maybe those hideous red boots. — File all those brash color references under “obvious foreshadowing”, just like in Breaking Bad.
5. Taylor Swift will release a song about how someone was recently mean to her. — But you knew that already.
6. HBO’s new series, “True Detective” is going to suck. — I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to green-light another damn crime drama, but there are enough of them clogging the airwaves already. Just because you add Matthew “Alright, Alright, Alright” McCounaughey to a show doesn’t mean it will be good. In fact, that might deter a lot of people who recognize that as a lazy cop-out from good writing or talent.
In-game screenshot from Watch Dogs
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7. Ubisoft’s “Watch Dogs” will virtually sweep the Q2 release market. (Assuming it releases on time.) — This game is essentially the answer to “What happens when Assassin’s Creed (one of Ubisoft’s most successful games ever) caught up to modern day?” Or, “What if you combined Assassin’s Creed with Grand Theft Auto?” (Again, two incredibly super popular game series).
8. This is more of a prayer than a prediction. PLEASE DO NOT PUSH BACK “Watch Dogs”‘ RELEASE DATE AGAIN. — Watch Dogs was supposed to release alongside the next gen consoles back in November 2013, and then the date was pushed to February 2014, and then to Q2 2014, and earlier today, it was announced for April 2014. (Supposedly).
9. The Colts’ NFL draft picks will be desperate attempts to repair the team they killed by letting Manning get away. — I am excited beyond words for the inevitable post-superbowl interview with the Colts’ owner where someone eventually asks, “How does it feel that you let go of your star quarterback, and then watched his new team go to the Super Bowl, leaving your team in the dust?”
10. Another stupid band is going to go the route of What Happened In Vegas and attempt to pull a fast one on Kevin Lyman. (Spoiler alert: that’s a bad idea. That dude doesn’t mess around.) — In case you missed it, local Michigan band What Happened In Vegas was selected as one of the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands winners and selected to play the local stage at the Michigan show of Warped this last year. They followed the tour all summer, and were eventually caught with fake VIP laminate passes, and then, once caught, made the fakest apology video ever (see here). Their situation was featured on Warped Roadies a couple weeks back.
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