Reader Christian awared us to this exciting contest from popular dadpunk/volkswagencore band GASLIGHT ANTHEM, in which users post handwritten lyrics on Pinterest (aka ‘tumblr for girls with hairy pussies’):
Gaslight Anthem’s new album ‘Handwritten’ is with us, and it’s amazing.
To celebrate Gaslight Anthem are giving YOU, their beloved fans, a chance to express your love for the band, and in return they’ll show you some love! It’s a circle of love folks!
So, what’s the rub on all this love business?The band are running the Gaslight Anthem Handwritten competition.
All you have to do is submit a picture of a handwritten note to the band (so old skool!) via instagram, twitter or facebook and you will go into the draw to win an AMAZING prize pack, that includes loads of amazing Universal CDs and DVDs AND a personalised signed CD from the band. The full value of the pack is worth $600, plus the priceless value of having a hand-signed personalised CD from the band.
Notes:
- The word ‘amazing’
- A pile of CDs and DVDs is worth $600 in 2012? In that case I have a moneybin in my basement– brb lighting my cigar with a $50 bill and laughing in the faces of poors
- It used to be such an insult to derisively refer to ‘one of those Myspace bands,’ but it sounds positively flattering compared to ‘one of those Pinterest bands,’ which basically translates as ‘one of those bands for girls who have low self-esteem, but instead of compensating for it by acting really slutty to get male attention, they take pictures of antique chairs or whatever and eat their feelings’
as u can see from the [officially licensed] I ♥ NY ® mousepad i conspicuously included in this photo i ‘felt like this city was my home the instant i moved here from wisconsin’
My 26 year old dad cousin showed me this band a couple months ago and said that “they’re pretty punk.”
BRB suppressing hysterical giggling while reading this in public. and hard lol @ ‘the word amazing’. that word has now been ruined for me/will now be used by myself and my brother as secret code for ‘stupid and shitty’ forever.
see also ‘authentic’
‘emotional’
‘uplifting’
‘roots’
‘DIY’
ad nauseam
‘meaningful’
‘curated’
True (tr00), real, passionate
… this is the drawback of being a minori-friend doe… the goddamn music tastes..
The cringing thought of this volkswagencore band being played non-ironically in a nice scion (non-toaster) or nu jap car with a/c that akshually werks on our way to “lindsey’s/kayla’s” birfday party somewhere in the hills makes me wanna puke and rayge @ da same time lol
i wood either raeg even more if i saw even more vegan-cupcake-munching-chubsy pale- big bush havin’ fotawgs up in dat shit that liked GA if i brought up the embarassing topic or wood have fun by trying to guess how many hairy pussies were in the vacinity!
i died @ “eat thier feelings” x-D
on the way back doe i wood force Bench press-Stay hated or random mexi-thrash/slam band doe for putting me thru torture of GA or nickelback or thrice or w/e da fuck lame band i did not like was being bumpd in said car >=D
the thing we do in the quest for white pussy…
yes… oh dear god yes!..
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If there aint gonna be beer pong at a white ppl party, I aint going.
Also lol’d cuz I’ve been to a birfday party for a Lindsey; cried cuz I liek Thrice.
Oddly enough, a genuine latina tried very hard to get me to like Thrice, and after politely dodging a few of her attempts I finally broke down and told her that I didn’t like them and why (when I was in high school, they were one of those bands kids jocked who wanted the image/statement of being a hardcore kid but couldn’t relate to any actual hardcore so instead they liked Thrice/Thursday/etc. and would look confused/insulted when you handed them a flyer), and inevitably hurt her feelings. Felt bad but had no way to handle the situation, what with my limited social skills and whatnot.
I was reading this in my school’s library trying to finish an essay when I notice that there is a womyn on the table next to mine also on her macbook. She has her headphones in so I don’t think she heard my laughter but I felt an urge to laugh even harder when I saw that she was on pinterest.
#LittleThingsThatMakeULaff #That’sLief #SheSmellsVegan
#SheSmellsVegan
Dying / groce
ded @ ‘there is a womyn on the table next to mine’
I take serious issue w’ this post. Gaslight Anthem are SubaruOutbackTraderJoesCore, get it right, bro.
Volvostationwagoncore
i cant believe you all non ironically love this stuff.
Since when are YOU their beloved fan???
Saw these guys at Reading. They were shit
Why don’t we all invade this contest and completely ruin it?
that would take effort and looking through google lyrics to find the lulziest ones :/
Why don’t we flood them with incorrect lyrics??
I’m sure the SYWH Brain Trust could come up with 1000 lulzy ones
Lolololol backed
“I’m just livin in a dusty road in America, workin hard to afford stationary to write letters home to my baby girl”
“These boots are worn out, and there’s a stain of tear everyday/when I think about how I let you down, but I’m just trying to find my way.”
“Playin Bruce Springsteen vinyl records all day, get in my car and play my tapes. My cars from 1888 and I have a little handheld tape player in the back cause I can’t stand the radiooo”
“I’m singin singin singin in my husky Americana voice, songs about the old days, days before I was born, when my mother’s mother couldn’t vote and black ppl weren’t free”
“those were the dayssss, and I’m gonna write songs about them on my porch with my old guitar and fuck the internet and all those other great technological advancements, I just want to skip rocks by the old river and America”
baby we were born to run in the usa..
Titus Andronicus do this:
“Tramps like us,
Baby we were born to die!”
Dude I would seriously love for SYWH to follow in the footsteps of 4chan/reddit in invading random shit on the internet for laughs
I luh all the bands flamed here :( still <3 u
I’m the one who posted this. The CDs are worth so much ’cause everything is more expensive in Australia.
Sad thing is I’m a massive Gaslight fan, and I would have entered if I’d seen it in time.
I’n everything this site makes fun of. Beta fggt who only listens to dadcore like Gaslight or the Menzingers and Ikeacore. Relates to Wonder Years lyrics and is friend zoned hard by a girl I met at a La Dispute show, got stood up at Against Me!, sees Frank Turner, etc.
I got a friend going on the same path and I’m trying to get him off it. It leads nowhere good.
Lukziest Gaslight lyrics are either ‘Give me the fever that just break/give me the children you don’t want to raise’, ‘I never felt right/I never fit in’, or that song they literally ripped off Counting Crows. Or that Brand New cover they just did.
Asslight Anthem lol
Brucespringsteencore IMHO
BORNINTHEUSACORE
Springsteencore is what I label most of my music as. Seriously.
This contest is stupid as fuck, but I still really like The Gaslight Anthem and Horrible Crowes (the lead singer’s side project) :) .
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