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Real emo
lastclearchance:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Okay, if we're going to get tetchy about emo, can we not sling the word 'metal' around whenever we hear overdrive and screaming?
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My fault. Point taken.
trolley:
Hello, i'm gonna drap the red rag around myself here and say some of the music I listen to would be the 'crap emo' you guys are referring to; specifically Dashboard Confessional. But I would like to take this time to say that I don't sit around crying into my pillow as I listen. I enjoy the music and it makes me happy, not sad, the same as all other bands I listen to. Don't just tar everyone with the same brush. Sure, Dahsboard Confessional do have a disproportionately higher amount of sad boys and gals supporting them, but that does mean well adjusted people can listen to them to.
Get down off your goddamn pedastals, take the poles out of your asses and actually give some things a chance. Otherwise you're just as bad as the mainstream supporters you secretly feel superior to.
est:
problem with Dashboard, etc, if i understand it correctly, is that it's not emo. sure, it might be "emotional music" or whatever, but "emo" as a genre doesn't encompass everything that is "emotional-sounding".
man, fuck it. i think that links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_(music) will do.
trolley:
Yeah, i'm personally don't agree that it comes under the definition of emo. It just bugs me the way people sneer at the band because of who their fans are, and have achieved more mainstream success than obscureindieband.
Robbo:
My general reaction to lines like that is that you probably dont understand why people are sneering the. But *shrug* maybe you do.
As much as real Emo is better than a lot of crap out there...and Emotional Hardcore is pretty decent...it's just lead me back to loving Hardcore Punk/Crossover and Crust stuff more.
Though it's really interesting to sit and watch the whole stereotyping and mislabelling of a genre and the mainstream perversion of it's music from the outside.. (well, the effects rather than the events) than being part of it.
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