NEWS: Hawthorne Heights Takes Back Rock Music!!

MUSIC: Hawthorne Heights Takes Back Rock Music!!

When you want kids to buy something, you just tell them to. You also feed them meaningless rhetoric. I mean, come on, their parents all voted for Bush, so why not get them started young?

Just ask emo Gods Hawthorne Heights, who sent E-Mail to their fans pleading with them to win a victory (sic) for "ROCK" music by purchasing their new record, "If Only You Were Lonely", which was released this past Tuesday. The letter, in its depressing entirety, can be read on the band\'s myspace page. But, I figured you wanted some choice excerpts, so have a look:

Other than reading like a 3rd grade essay, the most amusing part of the whole thing is that Hawthorne Heights considers themselves "up against" Ne-Yo, whereas I am sure Ne-Yo probably thinks Hawthorne Heights is a TV show about sheltered white kids in high school. The irony is painful. Keep in mind that the band\'s last release, 2003\'s "Songs From the Silence in Black and White" has, at this point, almost gone platinum. Interestingly, most of the people I know have still never heard Hawthorne Heights. Or Ne-Yo for that matter.

Regardless, lots of people have heard them, and I am sure Victory Records is excited to have another huge seller on their hands. Unsurprisingly, I could not find a response anywhere from Ne-Yo, Needless to say, I am anxiously awaiting the first week\'s numbers to roll in. Hawthorne Heights, I am counting on you to make ROCK relevant again!

There is nothing more ROCK than worrying about your chart postion.

Victory Records... how far you've fallen.

Writing for a street press mag gives me access to promotional sheets with this kind of shit pouring off them all the time. One personal favourite is a sheet for Darkest Hour that read: Metallica is old, Pantera is dead... and then some snappy catch-line promoting Darkest Hour.

Oh, and Hawthorne Heights irritates me. Moreso after reading that.

Hawthorne Heights are the most relentless self-promoters I've EVER seen.

Ewwwwww...

God, they're awful.

what's worse is that as a promotion, their label has made versions of those rubberized bracelets that people wear in recognition of breast cancer (pink) or cancer in general (the yellow ones made popular by lance armstrong). at work, we got in 5, for the first 5 people to buy the new cd. as of last night, we were down to 4.
douches.

Their new single is awfull, and this is coming from someone who owns and enjoys their first album.

I think we can see that really Hawthorne Heights = Agent Smith. I mean they want us to defeat NEO!! DON'T BUY INTO IT, KIDS!

I loved their first album, so I just bought the second and I was disappointed, it was kinda boring!

I'm ashamed that band is from my town. Or as they're dubbed around here "Hometown Favorite!"

Oh my god, please excuse me while I ralph.

I wish they'd stop calling themselves emo. They are not emo. I wish Rites of Spring would come in and break a fucking guitar over their heads.

Hmmmm let me think....

Listen to Hawthorne Heights

or


Punch myself in the nuts......



*slugs self in genitals*

Why can't a band show up that will take rock music back to a place where it didn't suck so hard?

They represent more what's wrong with rock than what's right. They look and sound like 12 year olds, and 12 year olds do not rock (despite what Michael Jackson might say). That whiny singing is the icing on the crap cake.

Wow, how utterly pathetic.

Wow, how lame is that?

Wait... are Emo bands even ALLOWED to fight each other? And if so, doesn't that make them teeter precariously into the "punk" realm? And if SO... then wouldn't Rites of Spring be the posers, defending emo whilst being punk?

Food for thought.

(Also, I've never heard of any of the bands mentioned in this thread so far. I think that proves Hawthorne Heights' point about ROCK pretty compellingly. )

This is one of those magical moment's where a member's comment and their avatar just go together so beautifully.

I figured there were some words missing, namely...

"and then have a good cry about it."

"and then kiss and make out."

They slap-fight. It's like Dynasty without the old money.