★NEBRASKA★ Cursive - "Art Is Hard"

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TV broadcaster/Radio station: KSWN (TV/Radio broadcaster located in McCook)

Musical format: Top 40




Artist: Cursive

The TV-Radio Broadcaster, KSWN, has now officially confirmed their announcement of their second artist. Making it the fourteenth official SaS #2-representant!

The submission has been brought out by the internal tastes from the TV-Radio Broadcaster's HoD and the SaS-creator!

Here's what engagement brings from the front singer of this band, as he's actually doing the attempt for the participation for the 2nd time!
Yes. The front singer of last edition's Nebraskan artist, The Good Life, Tim Kasher will try once again for his other associated band, Cursive, after being just left-out by being qualified to the ★ Grand Final ★ with a 7th place and 66 points with the The Good Life-song, "Lovers Need Lawyers".

The HoD's ambitions are reaching high for this time, making the statement that Tim Kasher and his musical appeal will be increasing 110%, and that his hopes for his other band will help do better and to try better the pride for his homestate!

Read more down below and click on the specific link if you want.

★ Biography ★ Discography ★ Photos ★




Song: "Art Is Hard"

Written and produced by Tim Kasher himself and Mike Mogis.

They've been confirmed their choice of a song being a hit single from them. This tells something about the lead vocalist Tim Kasher, who suffered a non-qualification from last edition, when he entered for The Good Life as the lead singer onto the song "Lovers Need Lawyers"

The next song is featured on the critics-praised studio album from 2003, The Ugly Organ

The Ugly Organ reached Top 10 and Top 20 on the Billboard's Independent and Heatseekers charts respectively.

The emo-based post-hardcore-track "Art Is Hard" is shown as track no. 3 and the lead single from the album.


★ Lyrics ★

Cut it out - your self-inflicted pain
Is getting too routine
The crowds are catching on - to the self-inflicted song
Well, here we go again - the art of acting weak
Fall in love to fail - to boost your CD sales
And that CD sells - yeah, what a hit
You've got to repeat it
You gotta' sink to swim

If at first you don't succeed
You gotta recreate your misery
'Cause we all know art is hard
Young artists have gotta starve
Try, and fail, and try again
The comforts of repetition
Keep churning out those hits
'Till it's all the same old shit

Oh, a second verse!
Well, color me fatigued
I'm hiding in the leaves
In the CD jacket sleeves
Tired of entertaining
Some double-dipped meaning
A soft serve analogy
This drunken angry slur
In thirty-one flavors
You gotta' sink to swim
Immerse yourself in rejection
Regurgitate some sorry tale
About a boy who sells his love affairs
You gotta' fake the pain
You better make it sting
You're gonna' break a leg
When you get on stage
And they scream your name
"Oh, Cursive is so cool!"

You gotta sink to swim
Impersonate greater persons
'Cause we all know art is hard
When we don't know who we are