I'm dating a girl (surprise, surprise) who, let's face it, is kind of a normie. She's a Swiftie, former sorority girl, but she's cool as hell. The same can't be said for her friends.
So, over the weekend, I met some of her old college friends at one of their places to watch playoff football. It was going well, since I'm pretty knowledgable about sports in my opinion, and I'd like to think I'm a good hang.
Well, my girl mentions I'm in a band (Hollow Cost), and of course everyone turns their heads in interest.
"Oh cool," one guy says, "what kinda stuff? Like Blink 182 or Greta Van Fleet?" I say "Ha, not exactly, my friend, it's called hardcore". He goes, "Like Metallica?" and I say "It might be simpler if I just play it."
So I played our most popular song and I just see blank faces around the room. Like that meme with all the women staring in disgust, but it's all my girlfriend's friends, guys and girls.
"So, like the kill yourself kinda music."
"Ew, why are you screaming?"
"Anyone can do that, watch me, rawrawrawr"
"Do people actually like this?"
"Do you cut your wrists?"
"Clearly your parents didn't love you."
"Thank god we only listen to real music."
They were eating it up, it was awful, even my girl couldn't hide her laugh. So I sat in the bathroom for a while trying to hold back tears, until someone knocked and I said "occupado..." and they laughed even harder, and said "phew, I thought you were learning how to tie a noose in there or something," and I heard even more laughs from the living room.
So where do I go from here? I want these people to accept me and don't want to lose my gf, but I love my band too.
EDIT: Talked to my girl about it and she said "they wouldn't make fun of you if they didn't like you", idk, one guy sent me a snapchat of me being sad on the couch
