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"Emo" the new "Goth?"
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on March 02, 2007, 10:20:41 am ---
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on March 02, 2007, 07:56:47 am ---
lol. thing is, there arent really 'emo' bands. there are some like 'my chemical romance' that emos like, but nothing ties it together like punk music, or heavy metal. emos listening to emo music is like scientologists listening to scientologist music- it is that genre purely because they happen to listen to it. oh, for the good old days when anarachy came with a viscious 2/2 beat and they did tasteful things like spit on people and pierce their septums with safety pins...
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Not true at all. Like I mentioned, "emo" started in the 80's with the emocore music movement, and it is most definitely a specific and unique genre of music.
The lines have been blurred ridiculously at this point because emo has been commercialized and emo for MTV is now the goal of labels. There is definitely a different style to emo music though. Bands like My Chemical Romance are and never were "true emo" but they have been adopted by the scene, so in that sense you are right..... but the same thing happened with punk music when it went mainstream.
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yes, but if you played the hummingbirds, an emo would just laugh at you. all they have is that name borrowed from some earlier loose description of something they arent interested in...
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on March 02, 2007, 10:17:34 pm ---
yes, but if you played the hummingbirds, an emo would just laugh at you. all they have is that name borrowed from some earlier loose description of something they arent interested in...
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and there are millions of kids that grew up thinking Blink 182 was true punk music. It doesn't mean that what you said previously was true. Emo is still a distinctive genre of music.
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