OMG BUT THAT SONG IS BASED ON A SUICIDE THAT REALLY HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE SO IT MUST BE EMOTIONALLY GENUINE!!!!! HAVEN'T YOU HEARD THAT STORY LIKE 1000000 TIMES????xfer said:how old are you, brandon? that song "freshman" was big when i was a sophomore in college and not only was it incredibly bland and cynically flat, but it was sung tearfully by scores of drunk college girls walking by my house on their way home from parties. every single weekend. i think the way they acted like the song had genuine emotion in it (as opposed to pop-chord dollar-sign i-started-a-band-to-meet-girls manipulation) was what galled me the most. they were tricked!!