The band that grew up with us
Allison wasn’t just a band. It was the soundtrack of an era. With that direct pop punk, fast guitars and lyrics about teenage heartbreak, they marked an entire generation that grew up in the 2000s. The one with MSN messages and tight t-shirts.
Formed in 2002 in CDMX, with Erik Canales, Abraham ‘Fear’, Diego Stommel and Alfredo ‘Alfie’ Percástegui, they sneaked into our playlists with songs like ‘Memorama’ or ‘Frágil’. And now, decades later, they are still here. And so do we.
The public that matured (but not that much)
This weekend they return to Vive Latino. It’s his fourth time. The first was in 2006. And change is the real protagonist.
“This will be our fourth Vive Latino. The first was in 2006 and now it is very special because we see how the public has grown with us,” says Fear, the bassist.
There’s the magic. The kids who used to hide from their parents are now… the parents. And they take their children.
“There are people who 15 years ago were minors and now can go to concerts, and even many fans today are parents and share our music with their children.”
It’s a rare and beautiful phenomenon: seeing how the songs that talked about your first broken heart are now being hummed by someone who wasn’t even born when they came out.
Perspective changes everything
They have changed too. The lyrics continue to talk about love, but not since I was 17 years old.
“In the first albums we talked about love from the perspective of someone who is 17 or 18 years old; today we continue talking about the same thing, but from the experience of someone who is already 40.”
And although they were pigeonholed into the ‘emo’ scene for years, they never felt completely part of that label.
“We never really considered ourselves an emo band as such. But music has that: it takes you back in time.”
And boy does it come back. Seeing three generations singing ‘Frágil’ at the top of their lungs is the definitive proof. They are not just songs. They are time machines with distortion.
