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An Open Letter to My Favorite Band

"Darling you'll be okay."

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An Open Letter to My Favorite Band
Olivia Terry

I remember when I first discovered that you existed. That fateful day, your name kept popping up across my Tumblr feed. I was on the hunt for new music at the time, because I was still in the process of total immersion into the punk music scene. I decided that I would see what all the hype was and look up your music on YouTube.

I clicked on the first video that appeared when I typed your name into the search bar. With the amount of views that it had racked up, it was clearly your most popular video. I started to watch it, and became totally engrossed. As soon as the first video ended, I went on to watch every other one of your music videos that were released on YouTube. I quickly fell more and more in love with their hard, fast-paced music.

From then on, you have totally changed my life. When there were times where I had no one in my personal life to turn to, you were always there. All I had to do was tap your name on my iPod, and you were right there to make me feel better. It seemed like every song would always somehow relate to whatever I was going through at the moment. Sometimes, just hearing your glorious voice and instruments was not just enough. When I was extremely sad, I would always watch your DVD documentary. It showed your travels of your world tour. By now, I am very easily able to recite every word from that documentary. Some girls would eat ice cream when they go through a depressing breakup, but I would watch your documentary until I felt better.

I started sporting your sweatshirts, t shirts, and accessories to school at least three times a week. Eventually, you announced your new world tour over the summer! I immediately called my best friend and we bough tickets for your New York show in November of my senior year. We bough matching sweatshirts to wear to the concert. Then, since you are all proud of your Mexican heritage, we bought Mexican flags to wave in the crowd, in hopes that you would notice one of us. Eventually the day of the concert came and I was so excited. When you all came on stage I started to cry because I was so happy. I regretted not spending the extra $20 for a meet and greet.

Then shortly after, you announced that you were headlining Vans Warped Tour that summer! I was so excited because I had already bought my tickets! Not too long after, you out of the blue dropped a single. No notice what so ever. It was the first piece of new music since your last album in 2012. Needless to say, I listened to that song on repeat for the rest of the summer, and then got to watch you perform it live on stage!

I've been going through a crazy journey with you guys for about the past three years, and it has been incredible! I am so grateful for the day when I stumbled across your music. I will always hang your banner with your name on it by my dorm room bed to remind me of all the awesome memories I've had because of my favorite band.


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