The first music lessons I ever took were drum lessons. Inspired by the young Tara Reid, who, before electrifying screens in the Sharknado series (her obvious magnum opus), played the drummer in Josie and the Pussycats, I set off on my quest to be cool. I didn’t last long in the class. Turns out, I was misreading my admiration for the character as having stemmed from her musical talents, when actually I just wanted to wear her furry cat ears and asymmetrical purple halter (I made a great pussycat that year for Halloween).

The drums just weren’t for me. I wasn’t cool enough, but more importantly, I wasn’t coordinated enough. And just like Josie and the Pussycats doesn’t get enough credit for how great it and it’s accompanying soundtrack were, drummers often aren’t given enough credit for the skill it takes to play. They’re not all airheads (like Tara Reid in JATP)!

...that being said, we’re going to focus on all the times they were. This is FML, after all.

1. When your neighbor decides to Rage Against The Machine

2. The rockstar life is the life for me

3. An expression of love 

4. So metal

5. When you're a drummer, the world is your instrument!

6. The Take Over, the Break's Over

7. Can I get a "HELL YEAHHH?"

8. Kitty goes to 11

9. This just slipped your mind before?

10. Caught between Rock and a hard place

11. Drumroll please

12. Good for them

13. Just because your drums have been sold doesn't mean you don't have something to bang *wink wink*

14. Nick Cannon could have filled in for you

15. Not quite my tempo