Arctic Monkeys Cringe

[@pamphletthebeanwolf5901]

That cocaine, it'll hibernate from time to time... But the cylindrical nature of my nostrils demands it adheres to some of its rules.

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Lol

[@LourdesEllisRegan]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@bettybunbun9664]

There were 3 losers in that speech.

[@Francoberry]

He didn't know, being the award, he didn't want to do what he had to do, being Alex Turner, and he cringed, being Limmy

[@edgarallennope]

I'd rather take the beauty out of the situation than the pain.

[@Stu4rtG4lvin]

@@edgarallennope beaudy

[@amp4105]

One of the greatest emoders

[@williama7124]

I don’t understand this comment or the comment thread below, please explain.

[@GitsumSaus]

It seems his nose had its dinner before he went on stage

[@andyr0ck]

That is indeed the sniff of a fresh bump dripping down the back of his throat. And the gibberish is on point.

[@ernestocaro9802]

@@andyr0ckhahaha very accurate.

[@ernestocaro9802]

@@andyr0ckhahaha very accurate.

[@hero2342]

"And all the weekend rockstars are in the toilet, practicing their lines"

[@mikecondy6010]

"Mastercard album of the year" - says all you need to know about what has become of rock n roll.

[@jdixon390]

AM wasn't a bad album though

[@neenee-bs3jc]

They sponsored the card he used to make his lines.

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

​@@neenee-bs3jcnice

[@alvin2021]

Poor bandmates were just waiting to thank their mothers. Never even got a chance to speak, well arrogant

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Their parents were all asleep when they got round to it

[@DrPeculiar312]

Even his band mates were groaning behind him lmao

[@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017]

Such vicarious embarrassment.

[@shiftypowersss]

You mean gurning right?

[@DrPeculiar312]

@@shiftypowersss no

[@shiftypowersss]

@@DrPeculiar312 They're all off their lips on coke by the looks of it. I could be wrong... but I don't think I am!

[@MrJammin13]

Is it just me or does this seem like he's in the WWE? The weird pauses during the 'speech' and the odd facial expressions just make it seem like he's on Friday night smackdown

[@theceleryman]

oh he was certainly on some kind of smack down...

[@tonypine3434]

Bewged out his mind

[@neilsun2521]

He could be one of the wrestlers in today's WWE -- they're all regular looking humans with zero skills at cutting a promo. (Not like the '90s when it was cool...)

[@roller325]

​​@@neilsun2521 The majority of WWE stars look roided out still. Far away from 'normal' people.

[@chilldude30]

He was smacked up

[@Nickersons-Theme]

"I appreciate this" he says, not even "we", the actual band haha

[@dronespace]

😂😂😂

[@dodi1986]

picked up on this straight away. arrogance beyond belief

[@waterhot80]

Let's be honest though, who are the rest of the band? They have probably changed line ups 100s of times and most people wouldn't be none the wiser 😂😂

[@papaspaulding]

As cringe worthy as all that was THAT for me was the worse part, like he just takes it himself doesn't even let the rest of the band get a look in, just accepts it for himself then walks off like a bell end

[@darrenstopper1806]

@@waterhot80nah pretty sure there’s been 1 change in the line up.Those guys on the stage were mainstays and r the band.And they looked just as confused as we felt

[@barryoffeastenders]

Graduated from the Liam Payne school for oratory

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Barry this comment didn't age well

[@PopcornMax179]

Nope. My brain doesn't have the energy to deal with this right now.

[@SixteenJacobsCreams]

Weirdly I actually like the band and got about 30 seconds in before giving up

[@Rosskles]

​@@SixteenJacobsCreams I thought this was all a piss take from them 😂

[@PopcornMax179]

@@Rosskles it's like when you really love a song, but then you sit down and actually read the lyrics, and realise how it's all cringe bollocks.

[@LiClan]

This is gangsta I don’t know why the comment section hating. This dude seems like a genuine cool guy stuck on an island full of dorks

[@Trashbat420]

Fuck me. Woke up and this is the 1st thing I watched this morning, now I'm raging. Great.

[@rumo510]

Well, the cyclical nature of the universe dictates that you'll have to watch this again tomorrow and have your morning fucked🎉

[@wintergirll]

I feel a dull ache.

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Imagine this as groundhog day

[@doughall2932]

Alex mused…

[@lose8447]

Alex quipped...

[@iannuendo]

No need to get coarse in a magazine for the public.. You won’t win a Pulitzer.. for filth.

[@ThePresident001]

Get the guitar

[@iannuendo]

@@ThePresident001 He went home to get it

[@HK_Musician]

That was him on a seven, wait til you see him on a nine or ten

[@jbm8167]

Alex Turner became the very thing he supposedly hated lol. Like a cringe Greek tragedy

[@isaace646]

I mean he hated it as a teenager in Sheffield and became a global superstar. There’s nothing tragic about his life.

[@NO-uv6pd]

who?

[@AidanLonergan-bz1cp]

He’s an immensely talented guy with more money and success than any of us can dream of. It’s still a tragedy how much of a pretentious willy he became

[@willy3toes]

"Fake tales of San Francisco"

[@willy3toes]

Also Noel Gallagher is hardly one to talk about arrogance but when Alex Turner first started really getting up his own arse with the slick back hair, leather jacket, complete accent change he said "can you imagine him coming home visiting his man for a cup of tea" and did an imitation of his 'cool' voice doing it. She'd be like who tf is this?

[@KevPage-Witkicker]

"I truly appreciate it," meanwhile the REST OF THE BAND's feelings remain unknown

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

I could see their feelings though and share them 😂

[@truthseeker9945]

“…When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer’s always the same, to me, they’re not mutually exclusive.”

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Chilled entertainment first though

[@rickipaddon6962]

There goes Alex Turner, I must remember to thank him

[@MrGoldenV]

Fartic Spunkys

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Nice

[@DendyJungle]

Arctic Monkeys didn’t know how to play their instruments when they founded the band but more amazingly, Alex didn’t know how to give a speech before that night

[@MrMcChuckles95]

Imagine turning from a working class lad from Sheffield into this 😅

[@neilarmstrong2187]

Tbf they were from High Green ie deffo not working class!

[@LiClan]

Who cares? When you’re a lyrical genius it’s good to be a bit smug

[@PoorlyWrttenReviews]

NGL I kinda liked that speech, iconic

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@LiClangenius is a bit of a stretch.

[@LiClan]

@@ShotsMerkzAll his song writing is epic

[@bonesf200]

Always judge a person by whether or not they'd get eaten in a dinosaur film. He'd be the one that everyone in the audience would be clapping the t-rex for when it bites his head off.

[@LiClan]

Why? He seems like a cool dude.

[@williama7124]

Brilliant

[@James-gs9qf]

That is great advise. I'm using it.

[@GeoffreyBronson]

"a dinosaur film" it's just struck me that we need more of those, not just jurassic park.

[@NesGarrick]

What about Marc Bolan. Would a T-Rex have gone for him??

[@ms16648]

There goes Alex Turner. I must remember to thank him.

[@thunder-sucklefuzzcanyon886]

“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

[@robbieblack4153]

These things happen during a sniff and a blether.

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Woke up next day and watched it back like nooooooo

[@realdecoy1]

Alex is the worst thing to happen Sheffield since that bomb in threads.

[@oscardolan5626]

'Youre not from new york city youre from rotheram'

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Or Paris

[@teddypicker8799]

We've all said cringe things on the nose candy😂

[@FuncleB]

He's pretty cringe sober too.

[@carlkermode899]

Looks like he started believing the hype.

[@dtex_zero]

No, hes just coked out his mind.

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

And drinking the kool aid

[@cjp8155]

Alex Turner thinking he's James Dean 😂

[@grantmitchel]

I wonder if he said to his band mates "shall I just go up there and make a prick of myself for a laugh?"

[@bswalem]

It honestly feels that way doesn't it? Even on cocaine, I just can't imagine him of all people saying this earnestly. Although this is consistent with AM-era Alex Turner generally tbh

[@MrThreescoops]

😂😂😂

[@tw-xm7vq]

@@bswalem Yeah I might give him the benefit of the doubt if it wasn’t for the fact that their music has become just as pretentious and wanky as this speech. I genuinely think he just believes his own bullshit since becoming so famous, and smells his own farts

[@EadwinTomlinson]

That nose rub says it all....and the second effort was too timid for it to work.

[@Hungrykittynomnom]

This is sounding like more management talk David

[@ninjabearsinc2]

You hate that.

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

There's been a rape up there

[@Ultrabox64]

I took Limmy’s advice and did the lottery. Won and treated Corden to a bag o wings

[@_willyp]

“Daethalotyat” 2:34

[@nathanmcgill7249]

What does that mean in English

[@ryan_custard13]

@@nathanmcgill7249 "Do the lot of it" - Do the whole thing

[@DillingerEscapeMan]

​@@nathanmcgill7249in English 😂

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

I was wondering wtf that meant

[@nathanbellamy3308]

His bandmates look like they hate him

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Can't blame them

[@charlieb9064]

The rest of the band wanted to crawl into a hole. Imagine what else they've had to deal with.

[@neenee-bs3jc]

they were physically cringing.

[@MrOwnie-yd2bu]

What an end of the bell variety

[@kirstinline]

one of the worlds greatest emoters.

[@Wee_crackers]

Nothing says “rock and roll” like finance company sponsored recognition.

[@jaimemurphy2208]

Yeah alright Geldof

[@heistallmighty9451]

Alex Cringer …what a embarrassing weapon who does he think he is 😂

[@niallglennon83]

Probably thinks he's in Arctic Monkeys

[@heistallmighty9451]

@@niallglennon83 ahh right, I just never knew being in a mediocre band made you this cringeworthy.👍

[@niallglennon83]

@heistallmighty9451 So being in a bigger band would allow him to be more cringe worthy? Surely anyone who speaks like this is a helmet regardless of how famous they are.

[@heistallmighty9451]

@@niallglennon83 yeah your right .I think it just makes it more embarrassing when your so deluded you think your crap music allows you to talk on that level of “helmet” 😂

[@Rosskles]

​@@niallglennon83 True, but success doesn't always mean talent remember.

[@TAFKAJameson]

If you're in a band, ALWAYS say "we", never "I"

[@chilly6470]

Yeah, he'll probably change the name to Alex Monkey.

[@zigeunerart]

*mike drip* “C’mon boys!”😂

[@wiseguy100]

He looks like the boy that currently plays Spider-Man.

[@N93000]

More Bully Maguire no?

[@Adam-os9mw]

He's officially banned from Sheffield

[@deadhead-s7t]

Like he ever wants back in that shit hole! 🤣

[@meneurdujeu]

Pish like this is what killed indie music. What a fanny. It is dead.

[@LiClan]

Indie music is alive and well lad

[@meneurdujeu]

@@LiClan ok cool, probably just don't know because it's not in mainstream

[@LiClan]

@@meneurdujeu I guess the Arica were the most mainstream band but it’s all rock and roll at the end of the day.

[@Steven-uz2tt]

​@@LiClanliking your own posts is sad. I'd say get a life, but you're already a waste of resources.

[@ARyan-nf5my]

I think tech just killed music in general. AI in music most musicians are confined to colleges and bedrooms now, only to ever weakly touch the public conscience again

[@JollyRoger-tm1mz]

These are the rock n roll bands bankers want you to see

[@gregchapman3519]

MEGABEAKED.

[@SGC90-t5y]

Hella cringe.

[@UdumbaraMusic]

Why did I watch this first thing in the morning... Going to have stomach cramps all day from the cringe...

[@86themadhatter27]

Always feel like i cashed out at the right time before Alex began his Hollywood phase. Still love their old albums

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Same

[@SocietalDefibrilation]

His best music was written when he was like 16 and it was all downhill from there.

[@yoosh9034]

Never occurred to me that their downfall was Alex Turner’s arc from lanky awkward geezer into cocaine fuelled douche

[@seanrea8281]

Son of Partridge.

[@Ben-tp5jx]

They looked like they was appearing in court.😅

[@alisonmacdonald1825]

I have been bidding my time, sitting waiting for the day when Limmy went after him… peace at last

[@DanDerham-]

Wow such an emoter

[@jaimemurphy2208]

One of the greatest

[@amp4105]

Greadest emoders

[@williama7124]

What’s an emoter? google no help.

[@bmt3315]

One who emotes ​@@williama7124

[@MatthewHemming-y8m]

Ask Liam Payne, he’s somewhat of a connoisseur

[@FlintSL]

This was a Turner point in this man's career

[@MagickIsPower]

Bloke at the back with the white shirt has had more than enough of Alex's bullshit.

[@sanfordcurtis8242]

Didn’t know the 2014 Brit award was a ring light

[@e.trimble5142]

Alex Turner's speech sounded identical to a monologue that Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica would give

[@barrydaly7174]

White van men in the pub on Friday afternoon, (about 3 to 3.30) all talk shite on cheap street dust cut with talc and vim, so imagine what they'd be like on the proper gear he must have bugled into.

[@williama7124]

This comment sounds like Artic Monkey lyrics. lol I like it.

[@barrydaly7174]

@@BigReptileCrew That's why I put the caveat of 3- 30 on a Friday in the pub, That's pretty much WVM prime time.

[@ssh1487]

@@williama7124I was trying to see how that fits to From the Ritz to the Rubble before it realised it doesn’t

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Love how accurate the time is

[@mftmss7086]

Bro thought he's cantona

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Needed more Kung fu

[@wouldbeking1]

Jaws last known location, somewhere in Burma

[@Sam-fb3sk]

His band mates are like "he's off again" 😂

[@hrz7214]

SLUDGE

[@douglasnorrie5925]

Slooj

[@Josef_K99]

Wet leg are shite as well

[@jerrydandrige1987]

Sniffing the devils dandruff yet again

[@KevPage-Witkicker]

The least-appropriate mic drop EVER. No mic has ever been dropped so pointlessly. A mic drop is the punctuation at the end of a seriously epic line delivery; this just looks like intentional clumsiness.

[@jameswindels-lyte1032]

Fucking hell he’s like a late night tv salesman

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Or a TV preacher

[@tomgreen2737]

Sad bastards I'm glad I cannot name one of their songs.

[@jamiecal11]

Have loads of you missed that the speech is in jest? He's obviously playing it up for a bit of fun - loads of people in these comments don't seem to comprehend that.

[@NesGarrick]

If that's the case, it's still cringe just accepting their MasterCard Album of the Year. They KNOW it's not very rock n roll their very being there. Alex is trying to deflect from this with a try-hard, un-funny desperate stab at wit, each sentence of it failing to land even more than the last

[@NesGarrick]

That just means he's even further up his own arse than folks already thought

[@TheoYoungMusic]

I hear this speech in the same way that I hear his lyrics - they're tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic ramblings that express his cynicism. I think he uses opportunities like these to vent.

[@LourdesEllisRegan]

Watching it through your fingers killed me off 💀😂

[@peterbrown954]

This is what happens when you allow northerners to become rich.

[@freddiemeyer4563]

😂😂

[@kristianhumphreys]

Diddnt happen the the gallaghers

[@peterbrown954]

@@kristianhumphreys have you met Noel?

[@LourdesEllisRegan]

Arctic spunkys Never liked, never will, purely because Alex is a narcissistic cringe lord.

[@steven.youngson]

I was putting my hand over my face. Looked back up and seen Limky doing the same

[@wimblewomble21]

The Fratelllis first album was more rock and roll than all of the monkeys albums combined.

[@SheDrawsSometimes]

Costello music is criminally underrated

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

It's more rocking but arctics first album was great

[@100Soulpower]

I'm convinced Alex is a character being played by Ryan Sampson.

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

That rock and roll (sniff), eh, is...or has been returned to the U.S parcel delivery services for incorrect postage payment...but not for long, because a card informing the recipient has just been posted.

[@freemindmusic2824]

"Dodalotyate" HAha! Scot's is the best accent.

[@MJEYouTube]

How wet is his mouth that just putting your lips together creates that noise next time you choose to open ur mouth

[@chez6953]

proper whopper Alex is nowhere near as big oitside of sheffield as he thinks either

[@meetrasurrik6982]

James Corden laugh at 1:33 how did Limmy not pick up on that ahah

[@rossl5908]

Liam's jaw was waiting in the wings waiting to give an aftertake interview wi Goodmorning Britain

[@blueplanet9917]

I don't know who Wet Leg are... but I like 'em.

[@ouroldhouse3674]

Rich kids from tax-free Jersey

[@_portsmyth]

@@ouroldhouse3674 Funny rich kids from tax free Jersey.

[@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017]

They're from the Isle of Wight, and good pals of David Icke.

[@ouroldhouse3674]

@@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017 Aye that's it, Isle of Wight.

[@NesGarrick]

​@@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017Isle of Shight

[@andyptv1996]

As a Sheffield lad it is embarrassing to see what happened to them. I remember the hype when they were just a local band making real high energy music.

[@ReggieBlinker-k9e]

It’s 2024 and ‘Rock & Roll’ is pretty much deed man.

[@bruirn]

Just cringed all my skin right off

[@jamesf7832]

"Invoice me for the microphone". Nah, you're alright mate - just get the f*** off the stage

[@markrice4580]

Alex Turner is taking the piss, he’s arch ain’t he?

[@nileevans229]

One of the most physical cringes I’ve ever experienced - really struggling to uncringe myself

[@ARyan-nf5my]

I hope the gallaghers coming back to scalp suckers isn’t this fabled example of rock n roll resurfacing..

[@sayno2lolzisback]

I remember cringing at this and yet at the time people thought it was so cool 😂😂😂

[@PoorlyWrttenReviews]

Nah that speech was iconic

[@stargirl7720]

cocaine is a hell of a drug

[@sonortubelug3853]

… Or do you, Ho Kogan, kick the doors out? Kick the cockpit door down. Take the two pilots that have already made the sacrifice so that you can face the challenge. Dispose of them, Ho Kogan. Assume the controls, Ho Kogan. SHOVE THAT CONTROL INTO A NOSEDIVE

[@NesGarrick]

How's your mood been?

[@chilldude30]

Blimey, i just noticed this was ten years ago

[@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD]

Scary innit

[@jmm8229]

What Alex did for "rock n roll"? He took rock n roll the school janitor's cleaning closet... artic donkeys.

[@REVOisMYname]

Wow, so esoteric and deep from someone that sings about boogying on the dance floor and women

[@jaksooon]

I'll just "accidentally " almost say fuck but stop myself like the cool guy i am.

[@DannyFiver-m9k]

Penelope Kieth not used to seeing the great unwashed upstairs

[@davidloveday8473]

Finest Paul McShane tribute act since Stuart Lee