Word: gavin
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...However, many critics of the Yardfest headliner seemed to offer up their anti-Gavin rhetoric without hearing a single song; instead, they based their dissatisfaction on an abstract sense of wanting someone “more famous,” rather than judging DeGraw on the merit of his music...
...Gavin DeGraw is, in fact, a widely-known major contemporary music presence. His first album, Chariot, went platinum and sent four singles to the top of the Billboard music charts. And unlike last year’s artist, Third Eye Blind, DeGraw can’t be called “out of date”; he will release a new album in just two weeks. Its first single, “In Love with a Girl,” is already climbing the charts...
...Gavin can’t be reduced to the wishy-washy presence behind the theme song for teen drama One Tree Hill. He can rock out. Blanket characterizations of his songs as merely mellow, acoustic melodies do a disservice to DeGraw’s talents—he can bring the noise and energy as well as any performer gracing the spring concert circuit of American colleges. Look out, Girl Talk...
...don’t take my word for it. An anonymous Harvard fan told me that Gavin excited her so much that she would literally “throw [her] panties on the steps of Memorial Church” upon seeing him. Localized fanaticism aside, his appeal is incredibly broad—regardless of the fact that he doesn’t have the name recognition of, say, Elvis...
...Gavin has a fan following all his own, and I’d hazard a guess that a silent majority of students are looking forward to his performance this evening. At very least, a fair number will be pleasantly surprised after first hearing his catalog; I surely...