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Se7en:
Eh? i thought hawthorne heights was american pop music?
kikanjuuneko:
--- Quote from: MyLordIsInfinite ---Dude your ideals of screamo are too close to hardcore death metal, screamo is supposed to have some clear vocals and then someone screaming their fucking lungs out, thats what its all about man.
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How about no? Go buy some Orchid records, please. That's where screamo came from.
Kai:
--- Quote from: Se7en ---Eh? i thought hawthorne heights was american pop music?
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Yeah. it's also really shitty, whiny, and has really bad lyrics.
SO CUT MY WRISTS AND BLACK MY EYES
SO I CAN FALL ASLEEP TONIGHT, OR DIE
BECAUSE U KILL ME
YOU KNOW YOU DO, U KILL ME WELL
YOU LIKE IT TO AND I CNA TELL
Infact, I declare that song the national anthem of myspace. Fucking myspace.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: trolley ---Can someone explain why songs with people screaming in them are considered music? I honestly don't get how you can find something so obviously aurally(is that a word?) grating to be tuneful.
This goes for all shouty music.
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I think harsh vocals can be intensely beautiful. The emotional intensity that can be conveyed is incredible. For example, Burzum's 'Ea, Lord of the Deeps'...the lyrics are a fucking D&D monster book description with atocious grammar. In Ewigkeit's version, which has clean singing, Jim Fogarty actually has to almost mock the song to make it enjoyable, with pirate background vocals poking fun at the lyrics (Oooh! You're really scarin' me now! Aharr!) However, in the original, the words are simply not important. It is the sheer power and intensity of Varg's distant, unearthly screams, which communicate rage, despair, anguish and hatred to an extent that very few poets or lyricists could ever reach.
Tunefulness is of course a wildly subjective matter, and deserves it's own website, let alone post or thread.
sp2:
I'm still at a loss to figure out what screamo is. I've heard a lot of post-hardcore (ATDI, Blood Brothers, BearvsShark, etc) described as "screamo" and that's just bullshit.
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