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The Emo Craze...

blubat	Date: May 7, 2004 @ 7:37 AM Has anyone noticed this...all the kids nowadays thinking its cool to be depressed. Ok im gonna get some shit now from you emo kids now arent I? Ok first off i like most emo...well at least part of it...i hate the message it conveys for the most part...about dwelling on your past and all that shit...ok sure...some songs arent like that, i realise that...but for the most part they are all like "hey , wanna go cry in a corner about something that happened a year ago?" I myself am a huge fan of emo...there something about he emotion captured in someone screaming out about some past loved...i respect that much more then say a band named dashboard. My final point is why is suddenly everybody so keen on being depressed? dont get me wrong i like the music (if its not the same thing over and over coughdashboardcough) but whats with the message? as i saw once written on the wall at a hardcore show...emo kills, stop the killing.
Intergalacti...	Date: May 7, 2004 @ 8:13 AM I agree with you I was going to post somethin about it gettin to mainstream but I thought I might insult a couple of kids who dropped his ice-cream last week he's probably still crying over that. I mean I'm no one to talk cos i'm still in love with a girl who got rid of me a couple of months ago but not all my songs sound exactly the same I try to get as much variance in it as possible. The guitar melodies OK I agree its very talented but its all sounding the same apart from the one or two bands who have slightly more talent but next I have a feeling its goin to be heavy metal again. A bunch of guys that play open drop d on their guitars and shout about a bloody murder or a mandatory suicide. Again I like this music but its all the same and gets very tedious. I just want one band to come out who play like several different styles on one album that would be cool. Screw images have fun and play what you feel.
alexamustang	Date: May 7, 2004 @ 8:40 AM check out http://bedroomsessions.dmusic.com for some emo we did- its kind of making fun of the genre, we tried to be cliched while sounding quite original. check it out for some awesome harmonies and stuff! Images suck, by the way
SoulBeats	Date: May 7, 2004 @ 10:51 AM Excuse me my ignorance, but could someone explain me what emo is?
blubat	Date: May 7, 2004 @ 11:19 AM Emo is i suppose Emotional Punk... sing about lost love...etc...bands like dashboard confessional, get up kids, taking back sunday etc
ICF	Date: May 7, 2004 @ 6:20 PM Thats probably because with kids its the only thing in their life. The story of their first boyfriend who dumped them of something like that. I like it personally as long as i only listen to like one song from each band else it gets pretty boring. But im not gonna say anything more cause im probably a sad, depressed emo kid myself! But hey if thats what they're gonna do thats what they'll do.
100thmonk	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 8:01 PM actually, if i'm remembering my eighties hc trivia correctly emo came out of a cerain period in washington dc music history. it was originally a reference to bands like minor threat, dag nasty, and although i cannot say absolutely i think it was a reference to the emotional content that came from the melody, and particularly from the emotional way that the bands delivered their music, which was uncommon in the hardcore world of that time. it was a very macho time for hc and in comes this singsongy dude, kinda croonin, and some of the kids didn't like it, and others did. so thus evolved a differentiating technology we call emo. there were seldom singsongs about about lost gals as i remember, and it wasn't necessarily depressed. this whole d.c./emo/straightedge thing was really given it's original kick by a bunch of coloured dudes who later called themselves bad brains. they were spreading a message about what they called p.m.a. or positive mental attitude. i just don't think that it is necessarily about being depressed, that is just what sells well, as it always has. "screw the evil czar and his occupationist war, i just wanna dilly dally, and humnhaw,and beat about the bush...oops i mean pussy, oops i mean prick"
Emosideproject	Date: June 28, 2004 @ 6:26 AM lol are you trying to make fun of me
BedroomSessions	Date: June 28, 2004 @ 7:08 AM yes.
Emosideproject	Date: June 28, 2004 @ 9:50 AM well it didnt work
agapepaga	Date: June 28, 2004 @ 12:01 PM I like how you all talk about the whole "being depressed is cool" thing like it's something new. If I remember correctly, during the "grunge revolution," people were saying the same thing. I know none of us want to hear the same old message, but in my opinion, it's a breath of fresh air when compared to the old macho eighties style of songwriting and even the new macho garbage out there like Nickelback. "I like your pants around your feet?" Give me a god damn break. Nobody wants to hear that shit. But that's just me.
dstyx346	Date: June 29, 2004 @ 6:35 PM I heart emosideproject, is that enough to make everyone in here mad?
Maffmatix	Date: June 29, 2004 @ 7:23 PM emo is terrible
Emosideproject	Date: June 30, 2004 @ 9:28 AM pshh emo isnt terrible, now rap....yeah
dicktruth	Date: July 1, 2004 @ 7:57 PM The thing that really pisses me off about emo is that by calling one genre 'emotional', effectively you are saying that every other genre is less emotional, or has no emotion at all. Bands like Fugazi, Saves The Day, Quicksand and Jimmy Eat World I can listen to and maybe even enjoy. It's these bastard screamo bands that annoy me, all sounding and looking like clones of one another. Sorry to any fans of it, that's how I feel.
jess1561	Date: July 2, 2004 @ 1:34 AM foldingthecards.dmusic.com
twist1986	Date: July 7, 2004 @ 2:55 AM Where I live I haven't really noticed much of the 'craze', but I do, of course, see it on the internet all the time. I don't really get what's so good about it, but I guess the music applies to a large group of insecure adolescents. Personally, I don't really mind it. I never listen to it, except for Cursive. Then again, I don't even know if you can categorize Cursive as emo. Damn genres.
rapidhopeloss	Date: July 7, 2004 @ 8:03 AM Wanna know what annoys ME? People talking about stuff they don't know much about.
Westdox	Date: July 7, 2004 @ 6:57 PM Well i really like emo. The types of lyrics i write for myself, and my guitar are like a way to get away from the feeling im writing about. It doesnt just have to be something sad, at least i dont think so. I write about a day when i feel down and skinned my knee and it hurt, haha, or the time i met a really cool girl who made me feel something. But all in all, when its done and over with, it's about an emotion. That's why i think emo is so powerfull, it's not corny 80's rock about doing crack and doing hookers, and it's not crazy punk music about burning flags and tipping cows (not to say i don'tlisten to my share of that kinda music). Anyways that's my two dollars, feel free to make fun of me :0)
BedroomSessions	Date: July 10, 2004 @ 5:45 PM lets all make up and make some songs about hookers and coke
Thaspian	Date: July 10, 2004 @ 7:01 PM I remember some girl who was average looking in my chem/lunch last term going "my life sucks. don't even fucking ask me why, it just sucks." She gets money, lives in a nice place, is allowed to do anything she wants and has things served to her on a silver platter. That's what I think of when I think of an emo kid. Some spoiled brat with everything being given to them that just acts depressed for the fun of it. Most of the gangsta kiddies like rap because the only rock they've heard is this emo crap - and I don't blame them. It sucks.
rapidhopeloss	Date: July 11, 2004 @ 2:04 PM That's called stereotyping.
comorbid	Date: July 13, 2004 @ 9:45 PM I can't help but laugh at the the term "emo." Cuz when I see "emo" I can't help but think of "Elmo." And the concept of Elmo singing Emo makes me titter. nods sagely
BlueWildDesai	Date: July 25, 2004 @ 1:34 AM rock these days simply sucks. Emo is just one of the arms of the modern rock beast of suckiness (sounds very intelligent, no?). Classic rock is where its at.
acousticgrrl	Date: July 28, 2004 @ 2:46 AM Emo is doing now what grunge did in the early 90s. If you don't like it, just relax because after it gets super-popular it will become so corny and overplayed that everyone will start hating it and it will disappear from popular culture. The flannel shirts of today are the square-framed glasses of tomorrow my friend.
migbee	Date: August 5, 2004 @ 12:17 AM "I just want one band to come out who play like several different styles on one album that would be cool." Ever heard of Ween? They kick ass, and they play everything. They even made a country album (in good taste of course)!!!!!!!!!!!!11111 rox0r
migbee	Date: August 5, 2004 @ 12:24 AM "Well i really like emo. The types of lyrics i write for myself, and my guitar are like a way to get away from the feeling im writing about. It doesnt just have to be something sad, at least i dont think so. I write about a day when i feel down and skinned my knee and it hurt, haha, or the time i met a really cool girl who made me feel something. But all in all, when its done and over with, it's about an emotion. That's why i think emo is so powerfull, it's not corny 80's rock about doing crack and doing hookers, and it's not crazy punk music about burning flags and tipping cows (not to say i don'tlisten to my share of that kinda music). Anyways that's my two dollars, feel free to make fun of me :0)" i think i will make fun of you because emo sucks. everything is about emotion, douchebag. hendrix had more emotion in his guitar playing than anyone else. ever. would i call him emo? no, because emo sucks and hendrix is god. "pshh emo isnt terrible, now rap....yeah (Razz)" fuck you you closed minded little shit! listen to krs 101! listen to public enemy! there are good bands in every genre except teenybop pop and emo! face it fucker! emo is bland, boring unoriginal shite!

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