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Once and For All! What's EMO???
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Once and For All! What's EMO???
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 Prinny Overlord
Posts: 17917
Registered: 05-24-2003
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Over the past few years, the word "emo" has gotten out of hand. When I was a teenager, listening to bands like American Football and Texas is the Reason, emo was a term used for "crybaby in a sweater vest." Fast foward to 2007, and when you say the word, the first thing that comes to mind is "homosexual wrist slitters who listen to Hawthorne Heights." OUCH. How did we get here?!
Without coming off as too textbook, emo is a genre of music that began in Washington D.C. in the 80's as an alternative to the hardcore bands of the day. Rites of Spring are credited with the beginning of the emo genre, for creating a raw, passionate sound that had an earnest beauty to it. Other bands in this vein are Hot Water Music and Jets To Brazil.
As the genre progressed, bands like Indian Summer and Julia emerged, changing the focus of the genre. These bands focused on a style of music that was executed largely by changes in noise. These bands focused a lot in loud/soft variations with a swift alteration between whispering vocals, note strumming focus to loud, crashing, borish noise and screaming.
In the early 90's, Seattle's Sunny Day Real Estate emerged to largely reinvented the genre, giving it a lot of focus on loud/soft variation and soft spoken vocals that wasn't as raw and was more easily accessible.
Directly from Sunny Day Real Estate's style, bands focusing on the accessible, much poppier and lighter side of the group, bands like Texas is the Reason, Braid, and The Promise Ring began creating light, poppy, and indie rock styled emo with catchy hooks, longing lyrics, and a wide array of accessible non-threatening rock.
This sound dominated the scene through most of the 90's, before the genre outgrew itself, as most of the major bands of the style changed their style or broke up. Meanwhile, taken from Sunny Day Real Estate's more raw and passionate side, bands like Envy, Pg. 99, and Circle Takes the Square took part in a more hardcore focused style, but a hardcore style that is arranged in a vein of melodic formation, drowning out screaming vocals.
As a quick trip through the history of emo music, I hope you can see that emo music is a deep and involving genre. For this entire lesson in one song, at the drive-in captured everything I wish to portray in their song "Napoleon Solo", showcasing the tempo change, loud/soft variation, screaming vocals, and raw energy.
So, please, I beg you, for the sake of stopping the spread of emo ignorance, think twice before you decide that because bands like Hawthorne Heights and Panic! At the Disco suck because emo sucks, and realize that they suck because they suck. Emo has nothing to do with it. If you don't like any of the bands presented here, then yes, there's a good chance you won't like emo. But if you don't like emo because of bands that aren't even emo anyway, you're spreading ignorance, which just gives bad names to emo fans, the ones who actually DO know what they're talking about.
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01-29-2007 09:24 PM
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Re: Once and For All! What's EMO???
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Boomer
Posts: 2987
Registered: 04-13-2006
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Come on, Frank. You know I love surprises.
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01-30-2007 06:16 AM
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Re: Once and For All! What's EMO???
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Fighter
Posts: 740
Registered: 04-16-2004
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I just need to chime in here andf say that I am very discouraged at the current state of music and fandom. Everything is becoming so compartmentalized into tiny little subgenres, and people are so quick to dismiss music that doesn't fit into their tiny little cube. Even more ridiculous is when bands are completely miscategorized and cast aside without a decent evaluation. Slap the tag "emo" on a band nowadays and there is a sizable group that will just blast them, quite possibly without ever hearing a single song. It's just ridiculous.
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01-30-2007 09:42 AM
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Re: Once and For All! What's EMO???
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Nemesis
Posts: 5056
Registered: 03-11-2005
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Cool, I'll read that. How's The Shins album?
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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01-30-2007 02:04 PM
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Re: Once and For All! What's EMO???
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Prinny Overlord
Posts: 17917
Registered: 05-24-2003
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A Fyre Inside wrote: Cool, I'll read that. How's The Shins album?
It's pretty good. More of a progression album by the band than a really stand out release. It'll likely grow on me like their previous albums did, but it's well worth the pick up.
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01-30-2007 02:46 PM
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Re: Once and For All! What's EMO???
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Soldier
Posts: 5551
Registered: 02-01-2005
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VII Says Goodbye wrote:
A Fyre Inside wrote: Cool, I'll read that. How's The Shins album?
It's pretty good. More of a progression album by the band than a really stand out release. It'll likely grow on me like their previous albums did, but it's well worth the pick up.
yeah i agree but i dont like them as much as i used to.. especially since kids at my school are like 'omg new shins cd thisnew band is sweet' so it kinda makes me hate them
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01-30-2007 03:04 PM
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