I mean, this is exactly what that scene is trying to convey.
That… this dude is weirdly interested in ‘co-worker music’, he’s like, aggressively bland… and then he fucking snaps.
Hell, Bateman even literally says that one of their albums was too mainstream, too generic.
Bateman is totally vapid and hollow inside, and is desperately trying to find meaning, evoke an actually interesting response, but all he knows how to do is pantomime a cariacature of the perfect wall street socialite type.
So, you carry that forward, and the analogy works out to roughly: everyone whose entire life is wholly about fitting in to corpo culture, keeping up with the jones’s, everyone who is a ‘coworker music’ type of NPC automaton, ‘my personality is a couple Tiktok trends’ type person…
… they all have the potential to have this same Bateman style psychotic break, if they ever become… self-aware enough of their own lack of actual, genuine identity.
You forgot to start by asking if I like Brett Easton Ellis.
Fucking good reference
Motherfucker got me in the end right there, I’ll tell you that!
Motherfucker…You got me.
Do ya like Huey Lewis and the News? Do ya like jazz??
Do you like movies about gladiators?
Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
I bet the bastards business cards are “bone” colored as well.
Hey, Hip to be Square is an eighties masterpiece, and my six year old self will fite you
The heart of rock n roll is the beat, man.
Prolly had to go return some videotapes…
You Look Like You Could Use A Fuckin’ Lamp
It’s raining bullshit tonight
Ah, another wonderful classic 👍
It had taken me years to be at peace with the notion that some people love Maroon 5 and think Adam Levine’s voice is angelic.
Thankfully, none of the Maroon 5 fans I know are Bateman coded, but I did date a guy who unironocally worshipped Billy Ray Cyrus and he was probably the biggest psycho I have ever known.
Typical tool fan
I like opiate better than any of their later stuff. I’m the guy maynard is bitching about in “hooker with a penis”
Woah I’ve never knowingly been messaged by a famous person! Now I’m going to have to listen to the song
I mean that’s 80 claymation 15 vibes
This gave me flashbacks to emo music in the 2000s.
