I'm not sad anymore bro
You know Gabe Saporta, frontman of the solid pop band Cobra Starship, like best friends with Pete Wentz of the Fallin Boys, teen heart throb, myspace visionary, mid level mainstream icon, a dude who will probably still be able to get tickets to MTV award shows for another year or two if his agent calls early enough. Generally cool dude that makes fun music and has good times. So its hard to believe that before he became this:
He was THIS:
Part of sad emo punk band Midtown. One of those bands with fans who like them cause ‘they mean sooo much to me’ like exclusively. I lyric searched a song at random, and this first one had a lot of lulzy/sad lines like:
“I don’t care where you come from/If it’s awful there,
All of us are alone, I forget where I come from/And I don’t care”“So what’s wrong?/I think too much, I don’t want to fuck you/I don’t want to touch, I just want to fill you with regret/I’ve said it all before, it’s pointless”
So angsty and deep. sex is so pointless right? I’m totally empty insiiide likea big oceannn. I just want to sit in my room until high school is overrr. Would never guess that some bro this sad and loserish would be able to turn his life around and make fun pop music, but he totally did! Another JAM example:
Midtown understandably broke up because they didn’t really have a big fanbase and people were losing interest in them. Then Gabe started Cobra Starship after doing a bunch of peyote and going on a vision quest. Not sure if I would recommend that right away, but can’t argue with results. Dude has made a solid amount of hits, got to the billboard top five, and gets to work with sexy Rihanna-lites like Sabi, with extreme cuteness levels. Very jealous.
Mmmm, so fine. So for every sad, way serious, preachy, I’ve-got-life-figured-out-at-20-let-me-tell-you-about-it tr00 pop punk bro that thinks ‘real music‘ is a thing and gets high off not having any fun, there is some hope. If sad lil Gabe Saporta can overcome his angsty fake-deep phase and become the fun pop music making chill bro he is, anyone can! And I guess the only side effect is sad lonely teenagers being really bitter you got on with your life. Not bad at all.
This guy is now my role model.
I really like how the majority of this is just sweet Cobra jams. *pats self on back*
Good to know I have a way into THE GOOD LIEF if this Grindcore thing of mine becomes too much.
Sorry bro, does not work 4 grindcore.
Oh fuck :/
Sorry bro, does not work 4 grindcore.
this
would wife leighton meester pretty bad…
This post = accurate example of current life. Worry not my tr00 pop punk brethren, there is a light at the end of he tunnel of butthurt and it is beautiful.
Does anyone else think Gabe looks like one of the brothers from “Hobo with a shotgun?”
I was nostalgicaly listening to so wrong its right (atl) while reading this, I remember listening to ¡Viva la Cobra! on repeat at that same time when it came out in 2007.
fun fact : Saporta is a recovery edge kid
I don’t know Gabe, but he came up in the same hc generation/circle of friends as me, Jose, King Krakken, etc so I knew who he was and we have friends in common… including some girls he has fucked. The main thing I remember hearing about him ALL the time, back when he was ‘Gabe from Midtown’ was that he has a really big dick (srs).
The more you know.wmv
would touch Tila Tequila’s tits/10
The screen pause for the good girls gone bad youtube vid, christian bale/10
I never thought that song was by Cobra Starship. I thought it was some 3H03! (another solid pop band) collab with Rihanna.
Now that I’ve seen who sings it…wood wear an anti-black person sign through Harlem ALA Bruce Willis in Die Hard With a Vengeance just to have Sabi politely wave at me from across the room.
STFU and make a post already
No inspiration or things to say =[[[[[
But someone give me something and I’ll do my best.
I not haz understands. I thought pop-punk was all about having a good time? Yet there are tr00 pop-punk bands that are all into sadness n shit? Wouldn’t that make them emo?
genres are pretty dumb, but yes all the sad tr00 bands should just be called emo and forgotten so things can be fun again.
Inb4 tr00 deathcore fans with transition lenses.
One time I was at a deli in the valley (that means San Fernando Valley) with like 12 people, including this guy. This was the Midtown era. He bragged about how he was in the layout of Saves The Day’s Through Being Cool CD and I LOLZed. Then he said, “Shut the fuck up, bitch!” to a girl we were with, and she yelled back at him and drove home all of a sudden. He turned to me and said, “That must be a west coast thing. You can talk that way to girls on the east coast and they won’t get upset.”
1,000% true story
Seems like an entitled douche. I don’t know if he’s still like that, but at least he makes fun music now.