#335 (of 365) "No Halo" Sorority Noise

The Emo/punk revival of the 2010s has produced more than a few great bands and songs on this list, but this one is the most problematic. Lead singer Cameron Boucher, who led screamo punk band Old Gray as well, was accused of raping a friend of a fellow musician in 2018 and both bands went on indefinite hiatus and never toured again. I didn't discover the band or this song until after that all happened, and didn't discover the rape allegations until after I had already used Old Gray as the closing song for my second novel, The Best Hardcore Band in PA (!) I was reaching out to musicians to get permissions to use their lyrics (struck out completely--couldn't get in touch with any of that--and had to remove all my Joyce Manor and Cloud Nothings and Japandroids lyrics) and when I got to Old Gray, I got to the Boucher allegations and went--okay, true or not, it's best to avoid the controversy and replaced Old Gray with Drug Church and removed them completely. Now, making this list, I was confronted by the information again (same lead singer) but there is very little information out there and Boucher denied everything back in 2018 and the "official" accusation came from a friend of the alleged victim, so--it's hard to know what, if anything, to make of all of it except it's quite strange that Boucher just stopped making music (as far as I can tell) if he didn't do anything wrong back in 2013 (when the alleged incident occurred). Long story short, this is a great song, but maybe it shouldn't be on this list at all. I understand if you feel that way, and I apologize.

So if there's a race to heaven, I will always come in last

"No Halo" - Sorority Noise // You're Not as ____ as You Think (2017)