Max Collins, frontman for the ’90s alt-rock trio Eve 6, has had a personal Twitter account since 2009. But it wasn’t until late 2020, when he started tweeting via the band’s official account, that he emerged as a shitposter par excellence.
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On the occasion of Eve 6’s first new release in nearly a decade, the grim value EP, Input asked Collins to rank his top tweets, from great to greatest-ever. He happily obliged...
“The Dead Kennedys — who are now sans [singer] Jello [Biafra], who would never have allowed this — were my introduction to punk rock. Them extolling the virtues of Mitt Romney was just so insane, so dissonant, so upside-down. My first thought was, ‘This is so sad. I’m literally more punk than the Dead Kennedys.’”
“Definitely got a lot of people angry with that one. What I hope mitigates any sort of hurt feelings is that this is coming from the ‘heart in a blender’ guy. All of the people that I’ve gone after have been artists that are considerably more successful and, most people would say, objectively better than my band.”
“My dad was an advertising guy. I would say I had a middle-class upbringing. But my parents bought me my first bass guitar, they paid for lessons. With my parents, [Eve 6 guitarist] Jon’s parents, it wasn’t like a Taylor Swift’s dad type of thing. Or I heard St. Vincent has a Wall Street dad. But we were still able to be in a band and had advantages because we had money.”
“Yeah, it’s true. [Stephan Jenkins] did have sex with my [then] girlfriend — before she was my girlfriend. Even at the time he told me, it was funny to me. I can’t conceive of saying that to anyone. Ultimately, there was something kind of impressive about his lack of respect for propriety.”
“The bit was @’ing a well-known cultural or political figure and asking them if they liked ‘the heart in a blender song.’ That’s what my mom always called the song, which I thought was cute. Marianne Williamson was fun for me because I got a response and because she’s been a presence in my life for years.”
“I feel like the only way that F-bombs should be dropped in song is if they’re kind of tossed off — or if they’re screamed. But the way he did it was somewhere in the middle. He was just a little bit too proud about it or thought that it was more dangerous than it was. Did I ever hear from Mumford & Sons? No, they’re up above it. Good for them.”
“This was the post that made Eve 6’s psychedelic online renaissance possible. I wrote the original version of the song in my junior year of high school. I’m pretty sure I’m one of a select few who’s ever written a No. 1 song while still a virgin. My virginity may’ve since been taken, but they can never take that [accomplishment] away from me.”