People Mock TikToker For Wearing A Metallica Shirt, Ask Her To “Name 3 Songs” – She Picks Up A Guitar Instead Interview With Author
If a girl sings popular music, that doesn’t mean she can’t rock a rock band’s merch, and if she does so, that doesn’t mean she’s got no clue about it. But the patronizing online trolls were eager to prove different when the North Carolina-based TikToker Zaria Joyner pulled off the look in a classic Metallica Ride the Lightning t-shirt.
The musician, who usually performs R&B and soul songs to her 124.7k followers on the platform, was immediately bombarded with comments like “name three songs” and “you don’t really like Metallica.” But Zaria didn’t go astray and accepted the challenge.
The next day, Zaria posted a response video saying “So my response to you guys is, like, really? Only three? Only three songs? How ’bout I play ’em on guitar for you?” She then proceeded by dropping the sickest guitar solo, shredding parts from Metallica’s hits “Master of Puppets,” “Enter Sandman” and “One.”
The video got 467k views, but Zaria didn’t stop there. She posted yet another TikTok of herself practicing Metallica’s “Unforgiven,” and trolls… well, I suppose their melted faces are busy wondering if it’s them who really like Metallica now.
Trolls made fun of Zaria for wearing a Metallica t-shirt and asked her to name 3 of their songs, so she dropped this badass response video
@zariasmusicReply to @paytonnsmith I hope this video finds the #Metallica fans lol, not my best #guitar playing but that wasn’t really the point #guitarist♬ original sound – Zaria
Bored Panda reached out to Zaria, a TikToker and R&B singer from Charlotte, North Carolina. Zaria, who’s currently a junior in college taking classes remotely at UNC Chapel Hill, said that her initial reaction to the comments was frustration. However, she soon realized that she had a really funny response to silence those critics.
It turns out, Zaria started playing guitar around age 14 and listened to a lot of Metallica throughout her life. “The first time I heard Metallica, I was sitting in my 5th-grade classroom when my teacher played Enter Sandman. I was like ‘this is the best song I’ve ever heard’ and I asked her who the band was. She told me it was Metallica and a few years later, when I got my first guitar, the first riff I learned was Enter Sandman.”
She then proceeded to shred Metallica’s “Battery”
@zariasmusicReply to @davidgriffith970 too much reverb but u get the point. Comment suggestions and I’ll play for y’all #guitar #guitarist #metallica♬ original sound – Zaria
Zaria said her wish was that people would help to spread the word about this whole story so that it would reach Metallica
@zariasmusicTag ##Metallica on my last Instagram post also a bird shit on my arm 2day and my dad said it was good luck so don’t let me down ##guitar ##guitarist♬ original sound – Zaria
The year Zaria got that guitar, she only listened to Metallica and explored their entire discography from start to finish. “I definitely remember feeling very different from other kids my age who weren’t into that kind of music, but I was so drawn into it that I didn’t really care.”
After going to college, Zaria said she had to work a lot to put herself through school. Turns out she couldn’t play guitar as much, but “Metallica has always been in my heart.” In fact, “they have ultimately inspired my whole relationship with music,” Zaria said.
And… Metallica responded, sharing big ups to Zaria!
The singer said she was ecstatic when she got a response from Metallica. “I actually cried when I read their comment on my page. They mean so much to me as players, and artists, so to get recognized by arguably the biggest band in the world and my personal favorite band was something that I don’t think a lot of people my age really understood.”
This past year, Zaria began to build an audience on TikTok to support her pursuits in music. “And even though I hadn’t previously shown my guitar skills to my online audience, I think this video was an epic debut of that interest, and I’m excited to integrate more of my guitar playing into my R&B music.”
Now the Tiktoker said her life was complete and she thanked everyone for helping to turn this into reality
Zaria called this whole experience “simply one of the most special moments of her life.” “It meant the world to me and I didn’t care if anyone else realized the magnitude of what had happened.”
“Not only did they leave a very nice comment on my last post, but they followed me back on Instagram, which was surreal and incredibly overwhelming in the best way possible,” the TikToker concluded.
And this is what people had to comment
I’m sure this happens to guys, too, but I’ve personally seen it more with girls. My personal one would be being accused of being a “fake geek girl” or when random dudes would see me wearing a Star Wars shirt and quiz me to try and prove I didn’t know enough to “deserve” to wear it. 🙄
Those who quiz people because of a shirt don't deserve to wear any clothes. My opinion. 😂 If someone likes a shirt they can wear it. It's really that simple.
I don't know about all that. I certainly don't want to see a bunch of Star Wars fans walking around naked.
It took my boyfriend months of living together to understand that when I am playing video games or watch sci-fi movies I am not faking it to please him as I know more about both than he does
Guess I'm lucky, my husband never questioned my geekness. He just enjoyed our conversations about nerdy stuff.
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Daria B what
ask ?
Wow that is ridiculous. There are nearly just as many women who love that kind of stuff as men do. When will those men realize that? And realize that we're human too.
Yeah, my wife has that happen to her on a regular basis because she works for a computer game developer, so of course idiots who only see her as a good looking young woman call her out for being a "fake geek girl" even though her name's in the credits and she played so much of those games she could probably wipe the floor with them... Oh and she's much more of a geek than I am, to boot - she can quote chapter and verse on Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel and DC lore, whereas I couldn't tell you what a Quarren is without looking it up...
Yeah, its like these men forget that women are human too and can like anything that they like as well. You never hear about "fake geek boy". Which is funny since technically sci-fi was invented by women. 😂
Also, women created the Masked Avenger trope -The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy. In fact the first novel was written by a woman, The Tale of Genji.
Rachel Reynolds haha
Standing in line to buy tickets for TFA opening night and some gatekeeper decides to challenge my Star Wars knowledge. I trapped him in line for three hours and gave him a lecture on the history of the Jedi from the Order of Dai Bendu on Tython through Luke's New Jedi Order ("Legends", thanks Disney). I was great and I got to talk endlessly about one of my passions.
See, The Order of Dai Bendu was the first to discover the Force. Originally they studied numerology and the movement of the universe. However, this led to the discovery of the Force and later Midi-chlorians. The Bendu monks found a Force nexus Ando Prime. Later they discovered a spaceship hidden in a lost pyramid that took them to Tython, where they discovered someone was gathering other force sensitive species. There, they began to set up the foundations of the Je'daii. At the time the Bendu monks were pacifists and believed in balance, studying both the light and dark side of the force. Although not all the gathered Force users agreed.
I still refuse to believe midi-chlorians are a thing ;)
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Sure you did.
Oof. I love Star Wars, but I’m, uh....a bit rusty on the details.....
I'm still waiting for some bell end to question my geek credentials. Been into sci fi since the 60s, comics since the 70s. Bring it on, nerd boy.(Also, BP doesn't know english slang, therefore hasn't censored bell end, lol!)
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A.M. Pierre no
And that, little children, is what happens when we judge.
tuzdayschild haha
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Not necessarily. The majority of time they would be correct. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people wear stuff that one question they shown they don't know anything about.
Why would you even care to question ones knowledge? It says more about you as a person. Stop judging People and trying to prove them wrong. It's not only unnecessary it's ridiculous.
Back in Jr. High I got called out as a poser for wearing the popular "Skater" style clothes at the time. Thing was, they didn't know I had my K2 aggressive inline skates and would skate into the small town where I lived after school most days and hang out with the skater boys. Sure, I never got good at tricks, but I sure as hell was out there trying. Ended up being good practice for when I joined the women's roller derby many years later, after college! Haters gonna hate, just do you.
I’m sure this happens to guys, too, but I’ve personally seen it more with girls. My personal one would be being accused of being a “fake geek girl” or when random dudes would see me wearing a Star Wars shirt and quiz me to try and prove I didn’t know enough to “deserve” to wear it. 🙄
Those who quiz people because of a shirt don't deserve to wear any clothes. My opinion. 😂 If someone likes a shirt they can wear it. It's really that simple.
I don't know about all that. I certainly don't want to see a bunch of Star Wars fans walking around naked.
It took my boyfriend months of living together to understand that when I am playing video games or watch sci-fi movies I am not faking it to please him as I know more about both than he does
Guess I'm lucky, my husband never questioned my geekness. He just enjoyed our conversations about nerdy stuff.
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Daria B what
ask ?
Wow that is ridiculous. There are nearly just as many women who love that kind of stuff as men do. When will those men realize that? And realize that we're human too.
Yeah, my wife has that happen to her on a regular basis because she works for a computer game developer, so of course idiots who only see her as a good looking young woman call her out for being a "fake geek girl" even though her name's in the credits and she played so much of those games she could probably wipe the floor with them... Oh and she's much more of a geek than I am, to boot - she can quote chapter and verse on Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel and DC lore, whereas I couldn't tell you what a Quarren is without looking it up...
Yeah, its like these men forget that women are human too and can like anything that they like as well. You never hear about "fake geek boy". Which is funny since technically sci-fi was invented by women. 😂
Also, women created the Masked Avenger trope -The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy. In fact the first novel was written by a woman, The Tale of Genji.
Rachel Reynolds haha
Standing in line to buy tickets for TFA opening night and some gatekeeper decides to challenge my Star Wars knowledge. I trapped him in line for three hours and gave him a lecture on the history of the Jedi from the Order of Dai Bendu on Tython through Luke's New Jedi Order ("Legends", thanks Disney). I was great and I got to talk endlessly about one of my passions.
See, The Order of Dai Bendu was the first to discover the Force. Originally they studied numerology and the movement of the universe. However, this led to the discovery of the Force and later Midi-chlorians. The Bendu monks found a Force nexus Ando Prime. Later they discovered a spaceship hidden in a lost pyramid that took them to Tython, where they discovered someone was gathering other force sensitive species. There, they began to set up the foundations of the Je'daii. At the time the Bendu monks were pacifists and believed in balance, studying both the light and dark side of the force. Although not all the gathered Force users agreed.
I still refuse to believe midi-chlorians are a thing ;)
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Sure you did.
Oof. I love Star Wars, but I’m, uh....a bit rusty on the details.....
I'm still waiting for some bell end to question my geek credentials. Been into sci fi since the 60s, comics since the 70s. Bring it on, nerd boy.(Also, BP doesn't know english slang, therefore hasn't censored bell end, lol!)
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A.M. Pierre no
And that, little children, is what happens when we judge.
tuzdayschild haha
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Not necessarily. The majority of time they would be correct. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people wear stuff that one question they shown they don't know anything about.
Why would you even care to question ones knowledge? It says more about you as a person. Stop judging People and trying to prove them wrong. It's not only unnecessary it's ridiculous.
Back in Jr. High I got called out as a poser for wearing the popular "Skater" style clothes at the time. Thing was, they didn't know I had my K2 aggressive inline skates and would skate into the small town where I lived after school most days and hang out with the skater boys. Sure, I never got good at tricks, but I sure as hell was out there trying. Ended up being good practice for when I joined the women's roller derby many years later, after college! Haters gonna hate, just do you.