Creed is having a minute. Really, if we're being exact, it's having numerous minutes, over and over once again, all throughout the web.
On Instagram, the band has actually been repurposed as a comical gadget for soaking on President Joe Biden; on TikTok, shitposters envisioned what it would resemble to describe the butt rock legends to an alien race; and on X, Creed is a simple punchline for talking about political theater. All the while, those memes are jointly collecting countless likes, views, and shares.
It's safe to state that if Charli XCX had not currently made 2024 a “brat summertime,” then this– as far as memes are worried– would be Scott Stapp season. And Stapp, for his part, appears to be totally familiar with it. “I've seen numerous [memes],” the Creed frontman states. “Some are amusing and I discover myself simply chuckling, and some are actually heartfelt in regards to just how much energy and time the fan has actually taken into developing the video.”
The wildest part of all isn't that Creed is being memed to death– it's that the band is relatively being memed back to life. In 2024, Creed silently clawed its method back from web punchline to genuine, honest-to-god, record-selling rock band. By June, the band discovered itself back in the charts– the leading 40 no less. Last month, the band's Biggest Hits was climbing up in sales.
As an outcome of its unanticipated renewal, Creed is even back exploring, playing sold-out programs with fellow postgrunge staples like 3 Doors Down. They're offering tickets for arena gigs for upwards of $100. For the incredibly Creed-core, there's the band's second-annual Miami-to-Nassau “Creed cruise” in 2025, which notes top-tier tickets for an eye-watering $4,300. Those tickets, by the method, are offered out.
Sure, old music discovers brand-new audiences all the time, frequently with a bump from the web– however Creed isn't other bands. Creed is a band that hasn't launched a brand-new studio album in 15 years and has actually invested the majority of that years and a half as the butt of web jokes. By market requirements, Creed was, a minimum of up until just recently, 6 feet under.
“Back in 2020, Creed had not visited considering that 2012, so we were sort of fascinated, I believe would be the word, to see the interest and to see the tunes having brand-new life and renewal and renaissance,” states Creed's representative, Ken Fermaglich, who has actually been with the band for years.
All of that pleads a couple apparent concerns: Why here and why now?
According to YouTuber Pat Finnerty, whose channel “What Makes This Song Stink” ritually roasts bands of Creed's ilk, the formula for Creed's resurgence is a basic one: time + cringe = appeal.
Creed, Finnerty states, are now past the 20-year mark after which most old bands can feel brand-new once again. “But then there's the meme thing– you see all these memes of like ‘this band draws,' and now,
