Sev was a rock band from the Northern Virginia area who appeared in a national advertising campaign for Pepsi Blue. Sev also appeared on the website come-alive show Farmclub and performed at HFStival, the summer festival in the Washington D.C. area that typically sets off the summer concert season.
The Washington D.C. area band Sev first performed together live on October 31, 1995. The formation happened earlier that summer when Max asked bassist Will, who was in another band at the time with him, to start a new project. With the gears in motion for a new sound, Will brought in his high school friend Dennis as the band's drummer. Singer/rapper Phil was the next to join, followed quickly by vocalist/guitarist Danny.
Sev quickly gained the attention of the Mid-Atlantic Music Scene. Winning the "Big Break" contest hosted by at-the-time local alternative rock radio station 99.1 WHFS, SEV opened the 1999 HFStival with their performance on the Street Stage. In 2000, Sev started a campaign to be noticed by major labels in New York City.
Sev is a popular Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste, which is seasoned with turmeric, cayenne, and ajwain before being deep-fried in oil. These noodles vary in thickness. Ready-to-eat varieties of Sev, including flavoured Sev, are available in Indian stores.
Sev is eaten as a standalone snack as well as a topping on dishes like Bhelpuri and Sevpuri. Sev can be made at home and stored for weeks in airtight containers.
The snack is popular in Madhya Pradesh, especially in the cities of Ratlam and Indore, where many snack foods consist of sev as a main ingredient. In Madhya Pradesh, sev is used as a side ingredient in almost every chaat snack food, especially ratlami sev, which is made from cloves and chickpea flour. Many varieties of sev are sold commercially, such as long (clove) sev, tomato Sev, palak sev, plain sev, and bhujia.
"Sev" ("Love") was the Turkish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, held in Dublin, Ireland. The song was composed and conducted by Melih Kibar.
The song was performed tenth on the night of the contest, following Spain's Anabel Conde with "Vuelve conmigo" and preceding Croatia's Magazin & Lidija with "Nostalgija". The song received 21 points, placing 16th in a field of 25.
The song was succeeded as Turkish representative at the 1996 contest by Şebnem Paker with "Beşinci mevsim".
All these dreams seem so far away in my head
Damn, I'm lovin this shit
Living in it, I got the people singing our hits
It's like wild, cause I was up all night
With my pen in my right drinking 8 Miller Lights
Trimming off the fat is where we're at,
we're getting leaner
I'm looking at the other side,
the grass is getting greener
I mean I opened up the flood gates
dance clubs to arenas
Light on my feet, the air is getting cleaner
I got the bomb shit, can you handle this
It's in my brain through this pen hits my pad
Oh my God are you out there and can you handle this
We're gonna put the mother fucking
asses out of business.. NOW
All these dreams seem so far away in my head
So what happened to the good old days,
everybody says
When way back in the day that
dreams filled our heads
Of opening up shows we worked so hard
to get in the door
And put our best friends inside the clubs
to fill the floors
See we've loved and lost a lot,
and put our dreams aside
To go on this trip, the best rides of our lives
Of good friends, we've kept them close
not because of status
See this is al real but to get it you gotta have it
Taking time to get it right and lived our lives
with high intentions
Feeding off each other, did I forget to mention
All these dimensions that circle with high intensity
Fusing together, the new school reality
All these dreams seem so far away in my head
Yo, what's up Sev Sev is gonna tear it up.
I said yo, what's up Sev Sev is gonna tear it up
Whatever I wanted, whatever I needed
You have always been there for me
And when there was doubt I would never turn my back
Cuz I've always needed you.