Dartbeat Asks: American Authors For Winter Carnival Concert?
Programming Board announced on Monday that the bandAmerican Authorswill be performing at this year's Winter Carnival concert on Friday, Feb. 7th. Toast will open for the Brooklyn-based indie rock band, who will release their first album in March 2014. Though the band is not quite as famous as Ke$ha (who partied on campus after her 10F show) or Avicii (who graced the FoCo stage in 12W), American Author's single "Best Day of My Life"didappear in this Lowe's commercial and the trailer for "Delivery Man," and the music video for the song has over two million views.
Here are a few students' reactions to the announcement:
"Who's that? When I heard American Authors, I didn't associate anything with Winter Carnival. Who are these people?" -- Sandra Okonofua '14
"I haven't been this excited since I had root beer for the first time." -- Sharon Cho '17
“I feel like I should know them. I feel like they have a pretty popular song out right now, but I definitely don’t know them, unfortunately. But yeah, what I’ve heard in general has been positive.” -- Kendall Madden ‘15
"I don't know who they are. I actually saw that blitz and figured I should check them out but never actually did." -- Ellie Peterson '15
“I didn’t really have an initial reaction because I don’t really know them, but it was pretty positive from what I've heard from other people. We’ve had some kinda no-name people recently, so I know the few people I know who know them were pretty happy about it.” -- Nick Gannon ‘15
"I don't know who that is." *Natalie Van Brunt '16 starts singing "Best Day of My Life" by American Authors in the background* "Wait, I actually love that song, but I didn't know who sang it." -- Bridget Melvin '16
"Um, honestly I've never heard of them, but I guess I'm cool with them coming." -- Rebecca Liu '17
"I had never heard of them before all the uproar." -- Megan Cheng '17
"Oh, I know them. They're chill." -- Lauren Ready '15
"I don't even know who that is." -- Diane Lee '15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66j_BUCBMY