Cute Is What We Aim For (often shortened to CiWWAF) is an Power pop band, formed in 2005 in Buffalo, New York and currently signed to Fueled by Ramen. In 2006, their Billboard 200-charting debut album The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch was released by Fueled by Ramen. History The band was formed in January 2005 as a side-project by Cherry Bing singer Shaant Hacikyan (born November 7, 1986) and lead guitarist Jeff Czum after tensions in the band rose. The band's name originated in which the singer used the phrase in search of a "cute" band name ("cute" had become his trademark expression in high school as a synonym for "cool" although in high school, Shaant was often seen as an outsider for his strange practices and views). Laying to rest their previous endeavors' ska and pop punk notions, the quartet created a lyrically accentuated brand of power pop, that relies heavily on such poetic devices as alliter

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