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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s easy to see why. \u201cHey Brittany\u201d is a confectionary gem that combines elements of power pop, pop-punk, electro-pop and \u201880s radio rock into an unforgettable sing-along that resonates with the energy and vitality of youth. Since it was first posted, \u201cHey Brittany\u201d has garnered over 2.5 million Internet plays and triggered a bidding war between eight major labels. Motown emerged victorious, and recently released the band\u2019s EP Television Off, Party On, which features five fizzy, electric songs that should whet listener\u2019s appetites until the band\u2019s full-length debut comes out in Spring 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like \u201cHey Brittany\u201d Forever The Sickest Kids\u2019 other songs tap into a place where boundless exuberance meets romantic disillusionment, and while the music is hardly a downer, it echoes with some bittersweet life lessons. \u201cBelieve Me I\u2019m Lying,\u201d starts acoustic and builds with syncopated electronic beats, then busts into an exuberant, guitar-blaring pop song with yearning lyrics (\u201cGo ahead and cry yourself to sleep and think how you hate me so bad). The sugar rush of \u201cShe\u2019s a Lady\u201d is even more biting, as Cook sings, \u201cI\u2019m in love with a critic and a skeptic\/ a traitor, I\u2019d trade her in a second\u201d over a bed of fist-in-air guitars and slithery synth lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur songs are about real stuff that\u2019s happened to us because that\u2019s what kids want to hear about,\u201d guitarist Marc Stewart says. \u201cThey want to listen to stories about things that could happen to them as well, or that already have happened to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While some of those stories, like \u201cShe\u2019s a Lady\u201d and \u201cBecky Starz\u201d are about girls that have hurt the guys\u2019 feelings, Forever the Sickest Kids aren\u2019t entirely innocent of emotional button pushing. \u201cBelieve Me, I\u2019m Lying,\u201d for example is about an occasion when Turman was caught red handed, leaving his girlfriend in tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was hanging out with some other girls, but I told my girlfriend that I was going out by myself,\u201d he explains. \u201cSo, the girls and I decided to get some coffee, and as we\u2019re walking to the car, my girlfriend pulled up and her headlights were right there in my face. I was totally busted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although Forever the Sickest Kids have been around less than a year, their roots date back to the members\u2019 childhood. Guitarist Marc Stewart and drummer Kyle Burns are stepbrothers and shared many musical discoveries in their early lives. Around the same time, guitarist Caleb Turman and bassist Austin Bello became friends and started writing songs. Years later, Stewart met keyboardist Kent Garrison in high school. Then, when Garrison went to college, he hooked up with singer Jonathan Cook and Bellows. For a while, Turman and Bellows played together in the Dallas band Ben Bradley and everyone else from Forever the Sickest Kids rocked with The Flipside. But in late 2006, both of those groups reached a creative standstill, and the Sickest Kids were born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe all had the same idea and vision of where we wanted to go and how important the music was to us,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cThis was something that we all really wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Immediately after writing \u201cHey Brittney,\u201d Forever the Sickest Kids continued working on other ideas, and by the end of their first week, they had finished three songs. \u201cThe chemistry that we have together is awesome,\u201d Turman says. \u201cWhenever we get in a room together with our instruments, ideas just start pouring out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUltimately, when you hear the music, we want it to make you want to dance in your car while you\u2019re driving,\u201d Stewart says. \u201cWe want it to be easy to sing along to but so catchy you don\u2019t wanna stop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No problem there. Television Off, Party On is foot-to-the-floor-rock-with-a-smile, from the disco beats, handclaps and anthemic riffs of \u201cBreakdown\u201d to the jaunty riffs, warbling synths and clattering midsection of \u201cI Don\u2019t Know About You, But I Came to Dance.\u201d And with a brand new album on the horizon, Forever the Sickest Kids are destined to propel those smiles for miles to come. 2.5 million fans have already spoken. The final tally should be staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571,"template":"","meta":{"type":"LP","artist":"Forever The Sickest Kids","releasetitle":"","releasedate":"","label":"","format":"","single1":"","single1vid":"","single2":"","single2vid":"","single3":"","single3vid":"","preorder":"","spotify":"","apple":"","eventdate":"","supports":"","city":"","venue":"","img1":"","img2":"","img3":""},"class_list":["post-570","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/reviews\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/reviews"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/reviews"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}