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MAR 02, 2006 02:25 PM
William_Tell said:
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:
You buying our album tomorrow has much greater meaning than simply supporting Hawthorne Heights. ROCK music needs your support. Our society and culture has put rock music on the backburner. If our album can debut at #1 all of us will have taken ROCK music back to the top of the charts where it belongs ... A current example is an artist that we are up against called Ne-Yo. Many people are saying that Ne-Yo is going to outsell us because Ne-Yo has had a tremendous amount of over the top, mainstream media coverage. His album will be in stores tomorrow. Radio has played his single 160,000 times. Our single has been played 3,800 times. We know that does not seem possible but it is the truth. Ne-Yo is on a major label. Hawthorne Heights is on an independent label.
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!
"our society and culture has put rock music on the back burner."
society isn't suppose to put rock music anywhere. rock music - REAL ROCK MUSIC - says FUCK SOCIETY. fuck it all.
this band has nothing to do with rock. just bullshit 
MAR 02, 2006 03:25 PM
I liked a couple of songs off their first album. I've only recently heard their new single...and it fuckin' sucks.
They don't care about rock & roll. They care about having a sweet mansion to show off on "Cribs."
And, thank you Koleeta for the Matrix comment...you made me laugh.
MAR 02, 2006 03:32 PM
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
I wish Rites of Spring would come in and break a fucking guitar over their heads.
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. 
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MAR 02, 2006 03:35 PM
ShaggyVixe said:
Hmmmm let me think....
Listen to Hawthorne Heights
or
Punch myself in the nuts......
*slugs self in genitals*
This is one of those magical moment's where a member's comment and their avatar just go together so beautifully. 
B_Werner
Philadelphia, PA
February 2006
MAR 01, 2006 08:37 PM