Occasional bouts of sanity

Last night, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York hosted the 2013 Met Gala. This year’s theme was “Punk: From Chaos To Couture.” For many celebrities, this was the first time they had used the word “punk” in a sentence that wasn’t “Have my assistant get me Daft Punk tickets.” It was also an excuse for them to spend $10,000 to spike their hair up and play punk dress up for a night. When interviewed, they all sounded like total shitheads talking out of their asses. Here’s what some of them had to say in these actual quotes from the red carpet…

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Last week, with the help of our friends at WashedUpEmo.com, we compiled a list of the 50 cheesiest emo lyrics ever. 

The truth is, even though a bunch of those songs totally blow goats in the dark, there are a few pretty listenable songs on that list. So here is a playlist of a few of them. 

Naturally, some people wrote in to tell us which ones we missed. By far, the most frequently suggested lyric was that Taking Back Sunday lyric. We probably got 2 dozen submissions for that one alone. That song is not on the playlist. Mainly because IT FUCKING SUCKS.

Enjoy your Monday dose of emo nostalgia…

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Like most people, we love making fun of emo. Because well, emo is funny. So we collected the cheesiest, wussiest, sappiest emo lyrics of all time and put them in one place.

How does a lyrics make the list? Well, it should be totally cringeworthy. Basically, every time you hear it, you should want to puke your guts out over how cheesy it is. Usually, that consists of some failed attempts at expressions of love. Godawful metaphors also earn points. References to things like hearts, tears, and sadness are also a plus. Basically, anything that sounds like it was written in a college Introductory-Level Creative Writing Class. Some of these are by great musicians. Others are by talentless hacks. Some are by bands that fall into the “emo” genre. Some are just particularly “emo” lyrics.

For help, we teamed up with Tom from WashedUpEmo.com as well as some of our emo-savvy friends, and you, the good people of the Internet, to compile a list of the cheesiest emo lyrics of all time. In no way is this a definitive list. There are enough break ups and lame attempts at similes in the world to hold us over for the rest of eternity. So with that said, feel free to leave any you think we missed in the comments.

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