My take on EMO
Given the fact that EMO has taken over the rock music landscape over the past 2-3 years, I decided to make my own opinions on this genre known.
EMO is best exemplified by bands like: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, AFI, Hawthorne Heights, The Academy Is..., Panic! At the Disco, Yellowcard, Taking Back Sunday, Bullet for My Valentine, etc.
I have already said how I feel about My Chemical Romance. I find them to be the one band in the above list that actually has some creativity and artistic talent. They are certainly not on the historic level of Metallica, Guns n Roses, Pantera, or Green Day. These little kids (and I call them kids intentionally) think that MCR is the greatest band of all time. I am not even going to get into how rediculously wrong and retarded that view point is. I'll just summarize by saying MCR is a good band, especially in the direction that they are taking with "The Black Parade." They could definitely have a lasting impact, which is much more than I can say will be the fate of the other bands I've mentioned above.
The other bands seem to be an extended flavor of the week, depending on which band is best connecting with pre-pubescent teenage girls at the time. Fall Out Boy had something good going briefly, but they ruined it by falling into the emo lifestyle. All the other bands that I listed are basically clones of each other. They all sound generally the same. The themes of the songs are always about either being misunderstood or falling in/out of love. That'd be great if EVERY OTHER POP MUSICIAN didn't do the same thing!!! It'd be nice to hear something deeper from one of these bands. Are they not capable of making a truly epic song that they actually write? Which of these bands could actually produce a song that was as impactful and deep as GNR's "November Rain" or Metallica's "Enter Sandman"? The answer? NONE OF THEM. None of these artists have the creative talent to put out a song that is over 4 minutes long and that actually says something. I find it incredibly difficult to imagine the recording process of these bands' albums. They must just write about 15 of these little 3 and 1/2 minute songs in like a week. They are completely void of any depth and until this emo shit dies, we are going to be stuck listening to talentless losers who can't decide on their own sexuality.
Having gone over their "talent," allow me to give a theory on where emo came from. Emo basically came out of 3 things mixed together. First is obvious. That is Green Day. I hate to admit it, being a HUGE fan of Green Day, but they are resonsible for emo. If Green Day had not released "American Idiot" and started wearing black make-up, emo wouldn't have taken off in popularity. I don't consider Green Day emo, but the image they started has spread through all these other bands. MCR and other bands were already in existence, but none took off until they adopted Green Day's image (and even to a certain extent stole their sound).
The two other things that contributed are androgyny and goth. Androgyny has been around since David Bowie. Bowie invented androgyny in the 70s. He made it cool. Everyone that listened to Bowie in the 70s looked like a weird mix between male and female. It was odd, but accepted. Bowie was the first to do it, and was therefore seen as an artist (rightfully so). That idea evolved into hair metal in the 80s, with bands like Motley Crue and Poison wearing pounds of makeup and teasing their hair to gravity-defying levels. Finally, androgyny appeared on more time in the 90s with Marilyn Manson. Manson tried to re-introduce the concept with his album "Mechanical Animals." He appeared on the cover of the album in a white bodysuit with breasts (without nipples oddly) and no genitalia. That album tanked commercially, and Manson quickly abandoned the idea on his next album. Androgyny should have died there. But no, emo bands are trying to bring it back! All the guys are wearing jeans that are tighter than their girlfriend's. Guys have eyeliner and blush on. And here's the worst part: girls find it attractive!!! That should tell you how stupid the younger generations are. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather not have to see a gaggle of 14 year old guys in jeans that my sister couldn't fit into. No matter, those jeans are so tight that by the time those 14 year olds grow up, they'll be sterile and we won't have to be polluted by any more guys who can't decided if they are gay or not.
Finally, goth music. Goth supposedly died at the end of the 90s. Bands like Manson, Mudvayne, and Slipknot all stopped dressing in black (for the most part, Manson will always be goth) and painting their faces. Those bands stopped wearing make-up and trying to scare people because they realized that their bands were not being taken seriously. For a solid 5-6 years, we didn't have any mainstream bands coming out with the social stances that they were the most "misunderstood" group of people. Unfortunately, emo has decided to pick it back up. Emo kids think that the world is against them, when in reality they have no idea what the world even is. How can the world be against you when you live with your parents and have to ride a bus to school everyday? They have no idea. Kids are latching onto these shitty bands because they think its something fresh and new. All one has to do is look back at David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, and Green Day too see stylistic plagiarized these bands are.
Gimme a break. Emo is just another passing fad, just like the garage bands that had their heyday a couple years ago (remember The Hives, The Vines, and The Strokes?). Soon, hopefully in the next two years, emo will die a slow painful death. Hopefully it will come at the hands of a band like Guns n' Roses (put out that fuckin album!!!) or Metallica. One can only hope that a band like those, someone who actually has originality and talent, will save the rest of us from the sexually confused, talentless joke that is emo.
EMO is best exemplified by bands like: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, AFI, Hawthorne Heights, The Academy Is..., Panic! At the Disco, Yellowcard, Taking Back Sunday, Bullet for My Valentine, etc.
I have already said how I feel about My Chemical Romance. I find them to be the one band in the above list that actually has some creativity and artistic talent. They are certainly not on the historic level of Metallica, Guns n Roses, Pantera, or Green Day. These little kids (and I call them kids intentionally) think that MCR is the greatest band of all time. I am not even going to get into how rediculously wrong and retarded that view point is. I'll just summarize by saying MCR is a good band, especially in the direction that they are taking with "The Black Parade." They could definitely have a lasting impact, which is much more than I can say will be the fate of the other bands I've mentioned above.
The other bands seem to be an extended flavor of the week, depending on which band is best connecting with pre-pubescent teenage girls at the time. Fall Out Boy had something good going briefly, but they ruined it by falling into the emo lifestyle. All the other bands that I listed are basically clones of each other. They all sound generally the same. The themes of the songs are always about either being misunderstood or falling in/out of love. That'd be great if EVERY OTHER POP MUSICIAN didn't do the same thing!!! It'd be nice to hear something deeper from one of these bands. Are they not capable of making a truly epic song that they actually write? Which of these bands could actually produce a song that was as impactful and deep as GNR's "November Rain" or Metallica's "Enter Sandman"? The answer? NONE OF THEM. None of these artists have the creative talent to put out a song that is over 4 minutes long and that actually says something. I find it incredibly difficult to imagine the recording process of these bands' albums. They must just write about 15 of these little 3 and 1/2 minute songs in like a week. They are completely void of any depth and until this emo shit dies, we are going to be stuck listening to talentless losers who can't decide on their own sexuality.
Having gone over their "talent," allow me to give a theory on where emo came from. Emo basically came out of 3 things mixed together. First is obvious. That is Green Day. I hate to admit it, being a HUGE fan of Green Day, but they are resonsible for emo. If Green Day had not released "American Idiot" and started wearing black make-up, emo wouldn't have taken off in popularity. I don't consider Green Day emo, but the image they started has spread through all these other bands. MCR and other bands were already in existence, but none took off until they adopted Green Day's image (and even to a certain extent stole their sound).
The two other things that contributed are androgyny and goth. Androgyny has been around since David Bowie. Bowie invented androgyny in the 70s. He made it cool. Everyone that listened to Bowie in the 70s looked like a weird mix between male and female. It was odd, but accepted. Bowie was the first to do it, and was therefore seen as an artist (rightfully so). That idea evolved into hair metal in the 80s, with bands like Motley Crue and Poison wearing pounds of makeup and teasing their hair to gravity-defying levels. Finally, androgyny appeared on more time in the 90s with Marilyn Manson. Manson tried to re-introduce the concept with his album "Mechanical Animals." He appeared on the cover of the album in a white bodysuit with breasts (without nipples oddly) and no genitalia. That album tanked commercially, and Manson quickly abandoned the idea on his next album. Androgyny should have died there. But no, emo bands are trying to bring it back! All the guys are wearing jeans that are tighter than their girlfriend's. Guys have eyeliner and blush on. And here's the worst part: girls find it attractive!!! That should tell you how stupid the younger generations are. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather not have to see a gaggle of 14 year old guys in jeans that my sister couldn't fit into. No matter, those jeans are so tight that by the time those 14 year olds grow up, they'll be sterile and we won't have to be polluted by any more guys who can't decided if they are gay or not.
Finally, goth music. Goth supposedly died at the end of the 90s. Bands like Manson, Mudvayne, and Slipknot all stopped dressing in black (for the most part, Manson will always be goth) and painting their faces. Those bands stopped wearing make-up and trying to scare people because they realized that their bands were not being taken seriously. For a solid 5-6 years, we didn't have any mainstream bands coming out with the social stances that they were the most "misunderstood" group of people. Unfortunately, emo has decided to pick it back up. Emo kids think that the world is against them, when in reality they have no idea what the world even is. How can the world be against you when you live with your parents and have to ride a bus to school everyday? They have no idea. Kids are latching onto these shitty bands because they think its something fresh and new. All one has to do is look back at David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, and Green Day too see stylistic plagiarized these bands are.
Gimme a break. Emo is just another passing fad, just like the garage bands that had their heyday a couple years ago (remember The Hives, The Vines, and The Strokes?). Soon, hopefully in the next two years, emo will die a slow painful death. Hopefully it will come at the hands of a band like Guns n' Roses (put out that fuckin album!!!) or Metallica. One can only hope that a band like those, someone who actually has originality and talent, will save the rest of us from the sexually confused, talentless joke that is emo.
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