Started: Sunday; August 12, 2007 12:07 AM
First Draft Submitted: Sunday; August 12, 2007 1:20 AM
Finial Draft Submitted: Monday; August 13, 2007 5:22 AM 
Word Count: 414
Title: How To Stay Faithful In A Room Full of Hoes: Keeping Your Credibility When Your Scene Makes It Big.

It’s the fear we all have. I myself know that one day I’ll see The Weepies on MTV and my pop-folk music scene will be everyone’s and I’ll wake up to a world full of Banana Republic khakis. But I have a three point plan to keep my lack of street cred.

Wear Band Shirts Outside the Genre:

If pop-folk makes it big, have a few Gym Class Heros shirts laying around.

If Alternative Hip-Hop makes it big, have a The Pipettes shirt ready to show off your obscure elitism.

If all else fails grab a Sea Wolf shirt. I haven’t even heard of them yet.

Know Where Your Music Came From:

When punk came back there were a lot of little high-school girls putting on the school girl skirts they bought during their Britney Spears phase and covering them with patches they bought at Hot Topic. I remember one incident when such a girl walked up to my group of friends and started talking about Good Charlotte. She automatically questioned my punk-hood because I was wearing a blazer instead of a hoodie. She must have not of seen my Banana Republic khakis.

She had a “Sid Lives” patch on her and someone asked her if she even knew who Sid was. Her response was “No! But he lives, punk forever!” as she stomped away in fashionable knee-high patent leather combat-boots we screamed to her, “What do you think of the Sex Pistols and The Ramones?” Her only reply was her middle finger and a phrase that became my groups mantra of mocking, “Good Charlotte is better.” For the rest of that girl’s high-school career her name was Dress-Up.

Don’t Be The Pied Piper:

Your music makes it big, be happy that someone of the opposite sex will know when you’re quoting song lyrics. Don’t leave it, don’t talk about how it was better when everything was underground. All you’ll do is find some other fad and fall in love. That one day will make it on some top forty station and “ruin” your life.

There is one thing worse than a person who always follow trends; those who always run away to be different for difference’s sake. Finding a new sound just because it has too many ears is being as true to yourself as the girl who didn’t know Sid was in the Sex Pistols.

toffer also has a pair of blue jeans, without any holes, he wears while listening to Wilco.