Year: 2022

In February, Big Thief started the year strong with Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, an expansive 20-track album this is sure to end on some year-end lists. When it comes to promotional performances, the lengthy album has given the band plenty of songs to pick from, especially since the album has so far spawned eight singles.

Well, they were on The Tonight Show and for the broadcast, they went with “Spud Infinity.” Big Thief delivered a remote, pre-taped performance, taking to a simple living room to play the song.

While this is a new performance, hearing the song live is far from a new experience for Big Thief fans, as the group has played the tune on stage as far back as 2017.

In a Rolling Stone feature from earlier this year, the band’s James Krivchenia remembers Lenker showing him “Spud Infinity,” which she didn’t think much of at the time (the track’s lyrics include, “When I say heart, I mean finish / The last one there is a potato knish”). Krivchenia said, “I heard it and I was like, ‘Adrianne, I’m crying right now.’ She was like, ‘But I say ‘garlic bread.’ You can’t say ‘garlic bread’ in a song.’”

Watch Big Thief perform “Spud Infinity” on The Tonight Show above.

It would hardly be an understatement to say that Seth Meyers is positively giddy about being able to report on Madison Cawthorn’s claims that being a Republican congressman can often be akin to being the key master at a ‘70s swingers party. (Side note: Meyers is also pretty enthusiastic about Ang Lee’s 1997 masterpiece The Ice Storm, and you should listen to him on that.)

Thursday marked the second night in a row that the Late Night host dedicated the bulk of his “A Closer Look” segment to the rumors that “key bumps” of coke and casual orgies are just as common in DC’s most powerful circles as roll calls and re-election campaigns. Though, given the subject matter—i.e. Republicans members and orgies—Meyers decided to re-brand the segment “A Distant Look.” Meyers kicked things off by declaring that Cawthorn’s casual statement about the GOP’s coke-fueled orgies is “one of the weirdest political scandals in recent memory, which is saying a lot. Let’s remember: The president drew on an official weather map with a Sharpie and tried to pass it off as real.”

But getting to the matter at hand: Meyers, in addition to pointing out that Cawthorn is likely “the first dude with a backwards baseball cap who calls [an orgy] a ‘sexual get-together,” thinks that the most amusing part of the entire story is that the spouses of many GOP leaders seem to believe it. As Meyers said:

“[T]he funniest part of this whole thing is the uproar it has caused within the GOP caucus among Republican members of congress, who are now getting questions about it—including questions from their own spouses…

“Yeah, I BET they are! If you went on a trip to Vegas just to play the slots with some of your buddies and one of them posted on Facebook, ‘EVERYONE I’M WITH DID COCAINE AT AN ORGY!!!,’ you’d get some spousal follow-up questions, too.”

But it’s not just significant others who have questions. Constituents do, too. Meyers shared a clip of Chris Hayes, who explained that Steve Womack—a 65-year-old Republican congressman from Arkansas—is getting questions about his sexual proclivities from his constituents, too.

Of course, “this is exactly what they deserve,” Meyers said. “Because it’s not like Republican members of Congress can just say, ‘that’s a crazy conspiracy theory’ when so many of them ran on crazy conspiracy theories.” (yes, Seth’s looking at you, Marjorie Taylor Greene.)

You can watch the full clip above.

To say a lot happened in pop culture this week would be an understatement. The music world collectively mourned the loss of Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins. A day later, cultural discourse was dominated by Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. This week on Indiecast, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen recap the week and name the first album that disappointed them.

Speaking of disappointing albums, this week’s main segments are about the new LPs from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Machine Gun Kelly. RHCP’s Rick Rubin-produced Unlimited Love dropped this week, the band’s first album in six years. Indiecast‘s thoughts on the mid-tempo album can pretty much be summed up in two words: It’s fine. Machine Gun Kelly is an artist that’s more used to getting flack from critics, and it shows on his album Mainstream Sellout. It’s his second pop-punk album thus far and both Steven and Ian think he might be better than his detractors believe.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian shouts out the anticipated new album by Pup, The Unraveling Of PupTheBand. Steven mentions his interview with The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon ahead of their 2022 reunion tour.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 83 on Spotify below, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

This week, New Jersey arena-punk band The Gaslight Anthem announced that they would be returning to full-time status as a concert and recording outfit. In addition to a reunion tour slated for the fall, there are plans to record their first album since 2014’s Get Hurt.

For followers of the band’s frontman Brian Fallon, all of this might have registered as a surprise. The 42-year-old singer-songwriter has put out solo albums at a steady clip since the hiatus, including his fourth full-length release, Night Divine, in 2021. And the music he’s made on his own has veered far from the rousing, Springsteen-inspired fist pumpers that populate well-loved Gaslight Anthem albums like 2008’s The 59 Sound, 2010’s American Slang, and 2012’s Handwritten, which debuted in Billboard‘s top 10. On his own, Fallon has moved in an Americana direction, favoring acoustic guitars and introspective lyrics grappling with adult disappointments, a far cry from the cinematic storytelling associated with The Gaslight Anthem.

When reached by phone this week, Fallon said that after his 2020 album Local Honey he felt like he had closed a chapter on his creative life. Now there’s a familiar urge that harks to his past. “You know what’s pretty cool? Rock music,” he says. “Playing guitars. I want to turn up something to 10 and play. Kick an amp over or something. That sounds great right now.”

In the following interview, Fallon explains how The Gaslight Anthem reunion came about, why it’s important to him that the band make new music, and the inspiration he took from the 2011 Pearl Jam Twenty documentary.

When you guys announced your hiatus back in 2015, the statement read, “We’d like to recharge and take a step back until we have something to feel excited about.” What are you excited about now with The Gaslight Anthem?

During quarantine, I had gotten so bored. You go back to all your biographies and rock ‘n’ roll documentaries you’ve already seen 50 times, and the one thing that I kept thinking to myself is, “Man, I really like bands.” It really is one in a million that you get to do something like this. So, not being able to do anything and having time to think maybe is what allowed it to happen.

You remembered, “Hey, I’m also in a really good band!”

I know that sounds so stupid to say, but it’s so true. I’m like, “My band’s pretty good, what’s the matter with me?”

You labeled your break as a hiatus, which is what bands always do these days instead of officially breaking up. But in your mind, did you ever think The Gaslight Anthem was over for good?

Everybody likes to blame me for the hiatus, but it wasn’t just me. It was a collective decision. We all were like, “This sucks, let’s stop doing this before we embarrass ourselves.”

I like things to be definite in my life. And I like to have solid answers. But this was one of those things that just wouldn’t allow that. I read about how Noel Gallagher just straight up quit Oasis. And I was like, “What if you change your mind? Then all of a sudden you’re like, ‘we quit, just kidding, the final tour, not really’?”

Did you guys stay in touch during the break?

Ben [Horowitz] and I have always been very close — sometimes close at each others throats in the early days. Now that we’re older, though, we would always talk. I would talk to Alex [Levine] and Alex [Rosamilia], too, just to get updates: What are you doing? How’s your family? What’s going on in your life? We all were pretty current with each other, but Ben and I really stayed in touch. Whether we were talking about music or not, we were just always talking. I think getting older changes your perspective on everything. You look and go, “Oh maybe that thing that I was so mad about is not so important.”

Did those anniversary shows the band played in 2018 for The 59 Sound pave the way for this reunion?

I don’t think it did, actually. That sort of made me think, “Well, maybe all that’s left is that.” I walked away feeling more final than when I walked away the first time. If we’re only talking about celebrating past records, that’s really not a path I want to go down. I’m not trying to say anything bad about anybody who wants to celebrate their work. It’s fine. But it’s just not for me. Unless you’re adding to it as well.

How did you make the leap from thinking, “I like being in a band” to the much more ambitious idea of actually writing new Gaslight Anthem songs and reviving the band as a creative enterprise?

Very slowly. [Laughs.] Cautiously. I mean, it had been something that I was thinking about for a while and I didn’t say anything to anyone. I didn’t even say anything to my wife. I wasn’t sure if I really wanted it to happen. And if I said it out loud, I was like, “Does it mean that it’s going to happen?”

I spoke to Ben first. I was like, “I have to come over to your house and we should talk.” I told him when I was thinking and he was positive, but he said, “If you want to do new stuff, then I’m interested. And if you don’t, then I’m not.” I made a deal with myself and I was like, “If I can write four songs that I feel are quality, I’ll call Ben.” And I did. I was like, “Okay, I got four songs. Here’s some iPhone demos. What do you think of this?” I sent them to everybody, actually.

I went over Ben’s house and I sat down with him and it was like, “Is this really happening? Could we do this?” And we just played together for a sec. Because if he and I couldn’t have gotten it together, I don’t think any of it would’ve been the same.

Was that an anxious moment?

There was a lot of trepidation. But once I actually saw him and we sat down, and I was like, “Okay.”

And then, when I talked to Alex and Alex, it had been long enough that we knew what needed to happen. We had a good roadmap. That’s the benefit of being a band for a long time — you know these are the years that it worked really well. And then it sucked here and this is why it sucked. When you have distance from something you can see the moments where it’s like, “Wow, we tried that thing out and it didn’t go right.” So, we went back to the place where it was really working well.

The music you’ve made in your solo career has been pretty different from The Gaslight Anthem. You’ve moved into an Americana/singer-songwriter lane. Do you think you’ll incorporate that style into the band? Or are you now back in the business of writing Gaslight Anthem songs?

Well, I think it’s two sides that have always been there. Even on like the early, early records, like Sink Or Swim, you have “The Navesink Banks” and “Red At Night” that are more Americana. But I know that when I finished doing Local Honey, there was very strong sense of completion. When that record was done, I felt I had achieved something, whatever it was that I was working at. And I was like, “Well, chapter closed. What am I going to do now? You know what’s pretty cool? Rock music. Playing guitars. I want to turn up something to 10 and play. Kick an amp over or something. That sounds great right now.”

Do you think you had burned out on rock music after Get Hurt? It seemed like you were deliberately running away from that for a long time.

It’s true that there was a while there where I was interested in music that was slower and more reflective, and trying to focus on lyrics or singing quieter. But there was also that feeling of, “I’m 40, can I still jump up and down on stage? Or am I an idiot now if I do that?” I wasn’t feeling a sense of mortality. It wasn’t that serious, It was more like, “Will I feel like a clown if I do this?” I am a firm supporter of young bands, and innovation coming from the youth. But I also think that innovation is required for any project to continue going or else it sort of doesn’t need to exist.

I was watching all those documentaries, and I looked at the Foo Fighters — Dave Grohl is at least 10 years older than me, and he’s awesome. They’re jumping up and down, having a great time. And that was encouraging to me.

You said earlier that you have perspective now on when things were going well for the band and when things weren’t. What lessons are you going to be able to apply moving forward?

In the Pearl Jam Twenty DVD, there’s this part where Stone Gossard says, “And then it became the year of no.” And I was like, Oh dude, right. Because when we were young, we were always told, “If you say no to this tour, your career’s going to be over.” And we realized that none of that is true. So, now we know to say, “Hey, if there’s excitement, then let’s move forward. If there’s not excitement, then let’s just pause for a second and figure out why there’s not excitement.” And then we can find that again.

You already have a tour lined up for the fall. When do you hope to make a record?

I’ve always been like a fan of writing more than you need. So, right now I’ve got maybe five or six songs, and I would want to have 30 to pick through and make sure that we’re actually good. The shows will come first, and then hopefully by the end of the year the record will be written to the point where we could pick 11 or 12 songs and then record. So, that would be early next year, early spring.

Britney Spears is best known for her music, of course, but she’s done some acting, too, most notably with a starring role in 2002’s Crossroads. That movie celebrated its 20th anniversary in February and now, Spears has looked back on it by making a sad connection between her character Lucy’s journey and her real life.

Spears shared a clip from the movie on Instagram and wrote, “Scene in a movie I did a ways back !!! When I realized my whole journey to find my mom … and she doesn’t want to see me !!! I know … PRETTY F*CKING SAD !!! I mean [crying emojis] … Psss I mean it’s actually less worse than what my mom did to me in real life so …”

Spears previously accused her mother of being the mastermind behind her conservatorship and said she “secretly ruined my life.”

As for what’s going on in that Crossroads scene, the Wikipedia plot summary of the movie notes in part, “Lucy reveals that her mother left her and her father when she was three years old, but believes that her mother wants to see her again. […] In Tucson, Lucy finds her mother Caroline (Kim Cattrall), who has remarried with two young sons, and is unhappy to see her. Caroline reveals that Lucy was an unintended pregnancy and that she wants nothing to do with her, leaving Lucy heartbroken. At the motel, Ben consoles Lucy and impresses her by writing music to a poem she has written during the trip.”

Crossroads director Tamra Davis recently spoke about Spears and the movie for its anniversary, telling Variety of working with Spears, “[Producer] Ann Carli called and said, ‘Would you be interested in directing a movie starring Britney Spears?’ At first, I said no. I think it’s always a challenge to do a movie that’s starring somebody who is not considered an actress, and she was known mostly at that time being a performer, so I had no idea if she knew how to act. Ann said, ‘Well, at least go out and meet her. She’s doing a MTV thing in Las Vegas. Will you go meet her?’ […] She was hilarious and I just thought she was amazing. We spent the whole day together and she proved to me that she really wanted to do this and put in the work and wanted it and was very serious about it.”

After going nearly all of 2021 without a project, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie arrived in the final month of 2021 with B4 AVA. The 7-track project featured one guest appearance, which was from Lil Durk through their “24 Hours” collaboration. That project arrived as the follow-up to his 2020 album Artist 2.0, and just a few months after the release of B4 AVA, A Boogie is back with a new song and it’s one that features HER beside him.

Together, A Boogie and HER unite for “Playa.” It’s a warm record that sees both acts navigating through the difficulties of a relationship. A Boogie commits to being serious about his lover, adding that he no longer wants to be a “playa.” In the song’s second verse, HER plays the role of A Boogie’s skeptical companion who doesn’t believe his words just yet. Instead, she’ll wait for his actions to prove that he’s truly serious about the relationship.

The track marks the second time that A Boogie and HER have worked together. The first time came in early 2020 through a performance of “Me And My Guitar” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The late-night appearance came after Artist 2.0 debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.

You can listen to “Playa” in the video above.

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Gucci Mane, Young Dolph, and Key Glock all had productive years in 2021. Gucci dropped his Ice Daddy, So Icy Boyz, and So Icy Christmas projects. Young Dolph and Key Glock reunited for Dum And Dummer 2 and Dolph dropped Paper Route Illuminati with his Paper Route crew. Glock also gave the world Yellow Tape 2 to close out 2021. This year was set to be a busy year for the trio, but that’s unfortunately and sadly not the case for Dolph as he was tragically shot and killed last November. Thankfully for those who are fans of Dolph, we’ve received a new posthumous verse from him thanks to a track with Gucci Mane and Key Glock.

The trio unites for “Blood All On It,” and it’s quite the heinous track as it finds the rappers doing their best to keep their hands clean after their evildoings. The track even arrives with a music video that sees appearances from Gucci, Key Glock, and Dolph. While Gucci and Dolph rap together on a tarmac near planes and luxury cars, Dolph finds himself inside an aircraft accompanied by quite the collection of hundred-dollar bills.

The song extends an active year that both Gucci Mane and Key Glock have had. Gucci kicked things off by connecting with Lil Durk for “Rumors.” He followed that up with “Publicity Stunt,” a record he used to respond to some disses from NBA Youngboy. Key Glock, on the other hand, is a week removed from releasing the deluxe version of Yellow Tape 2.

You can check out “Blood All On It” in the video above.

Gucci Mane is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

At long last, the City Girls are back in action. It’s been nearly a year since the duo that’s comprised of JT and Yung Miami dropped a record, with that being 2021’s TikTok viral track, “Twerkulator.” Some hoped that the track would lead to City Girls’ fourth album and follow-up to 2020’s City On Lock, but unfortunately, that has not arrived yet. It appears that it could change today and City Girls return with “Top Notch” and it features a guest appearance from Fivio Foreign.

Their new track arrives with a video that sees JT, Yung Miami, and Fivio enjoying themselves on the street corners of New York. It’s quite possible that “Top Notch” is the first sign that City Girls’ fourth album will arrive sooner than later. If that’s the case, the hope is that the project will have a much smoother release than their 2020 album City On Lock. That album was prematurely leaked and it forced the duo to release it earlier than they would’ve liked in order to make the best out of the situation.

As for Fivio Foreign, he’s a week away from finally releasing his debut album B.I.B.L.E. The project arrives after a big 2021 year that was highlighted by his standout verse on “Off The Grid” from Kanye West’s Donda. So far, B.I.B.L.E. has been led by two singles: “City Of Gods” with Kanye West and Alicia Keys and “Magic City” with Quavo.

You can listen to “Top Notch” in the video above.

Freddie Gibbs has tapped Rick Ross for a guest appearance on his latest single, “Ice Cream.” In and out like a flash in two minutes, Gibbs and Ross don’t hold back on the track, and especially not in the video, where Gibbs rides in the back of an ice cream truck, booty slapping twerking ladies and smoking a blunt like it’s going out of style. Ross is decked out in all red with layers of gold chains, rapping in a white room that’s snowing. What a drip.

Produced by Kenny Beats, the beat is a trippy flip of Raekwon’s classic 1995 cut of the same name off of the seminal album, Only Built For Cuban Linx. Back then, the RZA sampled and twisted Earl Klugh’s 1980 joint, “A Time For Love,” and wove it into one of the most iconic beats in the Wu-Tang canon for Raekwon, Method Man, and Cappadonna to flow over. Kenny Beats’ homage is subtle, but once you hear it, it’s a worthy nod to the classic. And as the track comes to a close, the melody is more noticeable.

Meanwhile, Gibbs is set to perform at Coachella in two weeks. That hasn’t stopped him from beefing with Benny The Butcher on Twitter lately over a joint album that’s probably never going to happen. As for Ross, the budding lumberjack was recently seen bragging about how he saved ten grand by cutting down his own trees.

Watch the video for “Ice Cream” above.

Freddie Gibbs is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Nobody really knows why we celebrate April Fools’ Day on the first day of April. Some people believe that it goes back all the way to the Roman Empire when they celebrated Hilaria, a festival of merriment where people dressed up in disguise.

Others say that it began in 1583 in France when the country switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent. Folks who were slow on the uptake and didn’t realize that the calendar had moved to January 1 became the butt of jokes and pranks.

Regardless, this is your reminder that on April 1, 2022, you should be prepared to prank some people or at least be aware that it’s April Fools’ Day so you can avoid being the victim of someone else’s tomfoolery.

A Reddit user who goes by the name Never–Mind asked the online forum to share their favorite April Fools’ Day pranks and they got a ton of great responses. “Since April Fools day is fast approaching, what have been some of your best April Fool pranks?” they asked.

The great thing is that most of them are really easy to pull off. When it comes to pranks, simple is usually best. Simple pranks are harder to detect and easier to accomplish without getting caught.

Here are 17 of the best responses to the r/AskReddit question.

1.

“There are 4 doors to our building and my co-worker put a sign on each one that says ‘Door broken use other door’ with an arrow pointing left.” — Proud Turtle.

2. 

“Piece of opaque tape over the laser on everyone’s mouse. IT was pretty pissed, I need to take that one to the grave with me.” — [deleted]

3.

“I work in Sales, and it seems like we always have a new guy around April. I like to write down on a post-it ‘Please follow up with Mr. Baer at…’ and then the number for the San Francisco zoo.” — mismistu

4.

“Here’s mine for this year. I hope it works. I recently purchased an espresso machine that leaves me with little hard pucks of compressed coffee grounds. I intend on covering them in frosting and leaving them on the break room table at work. Muhaha.” — FuzzyManPeach

5.

“A greek radio station once said on the news that Greece would quit the euro and go back to their old currency (this was before the whole economy crisis there). The Greek stock market had a crazy and troubled morning until they finally got that it was only an April Fools Joke.” — isablaubear

6.

“High school summer, my friend had a habit of getting up at 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I dropped by his place and his mom informed me that he was still sleeping and I should go wake him up. He’s a really heavy sleeper so I decided to have a little fun. I moved his cell phone into the center of the floor, about 4 feet from his bed. I crawled under the bed and gave him a call. No response. Called again and I finally heard movement. Hand comes down, can’t quite reach the phone. Foot comes down, another foot. He’s got the phone sitting down on the edge of the bed.

A very groggy, ‘..hey, what’s up man.. what are you up to?’
I pull off the best freddy kreuger voice I can muster, and yell out, “I’M UNDER THE BED” and grab his ankles with a vice grip. He jumps halfway across the room, nearly faceplants since I have his feet. He kicks my hands away and half scamper/crawls across the room until he realizes what happened. There was lots of swearing, he didn’t think it was as funny as I did.” — JMace

7.

“I’m a female kindergarten teacher. I wore a mustache all day long and pretended it wasn’t there…even with the parents. Everyone got a kick out of it except for one student who cried because ‘I looked scary.'” — HotTamalesYum

8.

“One April 1st I got up before my wife. I went to the kitchen to get some water. I opened the curtains to see that our neighbour’s house, across the lane, was on fire. I ran to the bedroom and told my wife. She opened one eye and said, “Sure, sure. Ha ha.” She got up seconds later when she could hear the fire trucks. Every April 1st, as a joke, I tell her the same thing.” — windy496

9.

“It wasn’t mine, but it was my mother’s. I was six years old and one day she gave my daily cereal, which was cheerios, in milk. But today it was different. The milk was a teal blue, and luckily my six-year-old self seemed to notice. I asked ‘Mommy what’s wrong with the milk?’ She said ‘oh nothing a blue cow just made it.’ And I was more excited than terrified and ate it all up. I told all the kids at school I ate a blue cow’s milk and they were all jealous as fuuuuuck. it wasn’t until later I realized it was dyed, and I felt like a fraud for telling all my friends I ate a blue cow.” — randomfactgirl

10.

“Last year I posted on Craigslist under the personals section, listing wfm. Googled “selfie” and found some hot girl and used that on the post. Pretended I had just moved to town, and was looking for a good time around town, and someone who knew how to show a girl a good time. I posted my friend Victor’s cell number and said the girl’s name was Victoria and went by Vic. I specified at the end of the post that ‘I’m kinda picky though, so send me a pic if you think you’ve got the goods, and you may get one back ;)’

Anyway, this was 1 am on 4/1. By 3 am his girlfriend was waking him up saying “someone’s blowing up your phone” Vic -“hand it to me.” She picks it up, only to see a dick pick that says “hey Vic, here’s mine, send me yours.” Oh and over 50 more dick shots. By the time he came into work his phone had died twice, and he had over 500 dic pictures sent to him. I deleted the post, told him it was me and we had a good laugh. Still, one of my favorite stories to tell, though I still work with him and I’m scared for this year.” — SopwithStrutter

11.

“I replaced a picture of one of my friend’s family members with a black and white picture of Boris Johnson.” — RugbyTime

12.

“In 3rd grade, the teacher walks into the room with a pissed look. She says the tests from yesterday were horrible and starts telling everyone’s super-low grades out loud. She goes on to give us all a piece of paper, saying we are having another test right now. She then proceeds to write the instructions on the board: April’s Fool. Super scary moment for me. A girl cried.” — Shroomsters

13.

“At the office, fill a bowl with trail mix, but remove all M&M’s and replace with Skittles.” — cgrant993

14.

“Not necessarily done on April’s fool, more like random days throughout the year. One day for uni we went on a bus trip to go check out the cadavers at another uni. Our lecturer was going to meet us down there, so I took this opportunity to buy him a singing Disney Princess birthday card, I got everyone on the bus to sign it and told them all it was his birthday, which of course it wasn’t but no one clicked that I was joking, I mean I had been in class with these people for 2 years and if they hadn’t figured out I was a smartass, they’re not fit and observant enough to be doctors. So I had convinced the class to sing him happy birthday once we got off the bus, which has started a new tradition. Randomly over time with we’d try top that. I once bought him a cake, streamers, banner, hats and party blowers and got my whole year level to barge into one of his classes and sing happy birthday. Everytime he posts a serious post on the Facebook Page for new students, I always post ‘happy birthday scott.'” — scottydoeskno

15.

“A few years ago I bought 200 packets of mayonnaise and hid them all over my boyfriend at the time’s room. I tucked them in the pockets of all his clothes, in his board games, behind his wall art- anywhere you could think of there was mayonnaise. He was still finding mayo a couple years later.” — AimeeSaysGrowl

16.

“When I was fourteen I came inside and found my parents sitting solemn and serious in the living room. They had me sit down and told me that I was adopted. I was devastated to hear such a thing, and my dad told me how my birth parents had to send me to the United States because it was practically the end of the world for them. They couldn’t get away, and so i was smuggled into the US and adopted. Now the time had come for me to know the truth, to inherit the items my birth parents had sent with me, to begin my journey to learn who I really was, and to take on my destiny. . . As the last son of Krypton.” — [Deleted]

17. 

“I told my friend I was pregnant as a prank and he offered to marry me and raise the baby together…it didn’t feel like a prank anymore.” — TheSilverLinings