I once described my taste in music as "polyjamorous" to a recruiter when asked what I listen to, and I'm pretty sure that description ensured I didn't get the gig. Whatever the case may be, my listening attitudes vary day by day, hour by hour, or minute by minute, and include genres from hip-hop, trap, rock, pop, dance, country, and legit everything in between.
Hitting shuffle with me tends to lead to many a weird stare at whoever's sitting right seat, and the inevitable question of, "Are you OK?" No, I'm not, but that's neither here nor there.
Why am I telling you this? Because I happen to peruse artist accounts I enjoy from time to time, and recently, I was scrolling through deathcore band Lorna Shore's lead singer's, Will Ramos, Instagram account, when something caught my eye. Wait, did I just see a Honda Motocompacto?! Yes, yes I did, and Ramos apparently loves the diminutive EV scooter a lot.
Although he wasn't too jazzed when a fan caught him going through a drive-thru on it one night.
Honda's Motocompacto is the revived version of the brand's beloved Motocompo from the early 1980s. Though it was only sold in Japan, and only sold for two years, the Motocompo gained cult status throughout the world, as its small size, adorable design, and ease of use was perfect for so many weird motorcyclists and normies to have fun with.
Originally designed as a last-mile transport after you couldn't get anywhere else with your car, the original Motocompo was a gasoline-powered scooter. The new Motocompacto, however, is a full EV, and is actually smaller in dimension than the original, being both slimmer, lighter, and more compact...o. Sorry, I had to.
As for Ramos, the deathcore singer known his straggling vocals, guttural arrests, and what he calls the "beefs" and the "cheese" i.e., low and high screams—go check out Lorna Shore's Sun//Eater or Unbreakable—is a proper gearhead. He's picked up drifting and hung with Adam LZ, and based on his social media, he loves that little Honda scooter.
In fact, the Motocompacto became a featured part of a podcast Ramos did with Craig Reynolds of The Downbeat podcast, where the singer recounted a time when a fan caught him going through a drive-thru on the scooter.
If you're a metalhead or someone like me who does actually listen to everything, the whole episode is worth your time. But after doing my deep dive, I really want to snag a Motocompacto myself, get to a Lorna Shore concert, and challenge Ramos to a race, cause that'd be fun as hell.
