Chris Carrabba
Music writer Mark Sanders interviewed Carrabba, the emo heartthrob and leader of Dashboard Confessional. The general topic was how he squares his increasingly mainstream popularity with indie cred. What follows is an absolute gem of faux modesty: ¨I have been lucky that what challenges me happens to be in line with a certain group of people. And that doesn´t make them fans of me, but fans of ´it.´ I just happen to be the one doing it.¨ Oooooooo, yech.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2004.