Emo music - It's not so bad is it?

[Melachi]

So I just found out some of the music I've been listening to recently is actually Emo !

Like, AFI - Silver and Cold
Fall out boy - Sugar, Were going down
Anberlin - The feel good drag


These are all pretty cool songs...

That make me emo?

 

[Morphius]

no, Emo Rock is very good music, a lot of people listen to Emo but are not Emo's, most Emo's dont actually listen to the "Emo" music.

 

[Megarevs]

So I just found out some of the music I've been listening to recently is actually Emo !

Like, AFI - Silver and Cold
Fall out boy - Sugar, Were going down
Anberlin - The feel good drag


These are all pretty cool songs...

That make me emo?

EMOM8

 

[Darksword]

depends if u want to cry all the time

 

[Overdriven]

"Fall out boy - Sugar, Were going down" <-- Doesn't make you cry, and I wouldn't call that emo. I'd call it 'Piss-Take' rock.

 

[haarewin]

is that the 'down town in a loolylora' song?

 

[Karl]

Melachi... i just looked at your avatar and knew you were Emo!!! look at that fringe!!

 

[eggy]

I hate stereotyping. I think it shows an incredible array of ignorance.

Music isn't split into the genres you're led to believe on TV/the radio. It is wide-ranging and diverse.

"Emo" music, whos name originates from emotional rock in the late 80s and is often a term that is used as an insult these days. The emo focus then switched to more indie music. After the 90s, new bands emerged more diverse than before, leaving the emo term a vague identifier and not a genre of music as such.

It's lost its meaning, and is now used generally to describe rock music with an emotional context. ie music about losing out in love, pain and suffering, suicide etc. The term is, however, irrelevant as the span of bands it encapsulates in society is a contradiction to its meaning. Bands playing upbeat "happy" music are now considered 'emo' as well. Bands that are placed under this heading are, as mentioned above, utterly different in musical style, make-up and audience, ranging from hardcore metal, shouting, all the way to modern day emotional rock and indie.

Just because someone listens to a band that the majority class under the 'emo' heading isn't derogatory of the listener. Personally, I have an incredibly eclectic musical taste, ranging from romantic symphonies to hardcore metal.

Be open minded; the term doesn't mean much these days.

 

[Cemeterygates]

Melachi... i just looked at your avatar and knew you were Emo!!! look at that fringe!!

rofl! gotta say he's got u there
an yes..."emo" is terrible.....boring....an usualy pretty sloppy....an often seems to be about the same shit...."omg my gf dumped me...im gonna cry an squeeze into my sisters jeans"...uke:

 

[eggy]

rofl! gotta say he's got u there
an yes..."emo" is terrible.....boring....an usualy pretty sloppy....an often seems to be about the same shit...."omg my gf dumped me...im gonna cry an squeeze into my sisters jeans"...uke:

It's impossible to say "emo is terrible", simply because it's not a definition of a genre any more. Over 50% of modern bands could be called "emo".

Yellowcard is completely different to Funeral for a Friend, for example. It's very narrow minded to say "emo is rubbish" unless you define what emo means to you.

Feel free to say "AFI are rubbish" or "Avenged Sevenfold are rubbish", as that is your opinion on something specific. Saying "emo is rubbish" means nothing.

Stereotypically, people that go to a Coheed and Cambria gig wear completely different clothes to a Thrice gig (ironically, both played together in London recently). The tight jeans thing is more related to bands such as Panic! At the Disco or Dashboard Confessional.

 

[Rellik]

is that the 'down town in a loolylora' song?

yes it is...
a loaded ???? lets cock it and pull it!

 

[eggy]

yes it is...
a loaded ???? lets cock it and pull it!

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it.

 

[Cemeterygates]

It's impossible to say "emo is terrible", simply because it's not a definition of a genre any more. Over 50% of modern bands could be called "emo".

Yellowcard is completely different to Funeral for a Friend, for example. It's very narrow minded to say "emo is rubbish" unless you define what emo means to you.

i wouldnt say its narrowminded to say its terrible....cos ive given it a listen.....stuff like fall out boy an the likes.....an MCR....an tbh....it does my head in....an 50% of modern bands?? where u get that from?? u must be talkin like mainstream stuff......cos i could name a rather large list of bands that are far from emo....as far as guitars/drums sorta music goes.....imo....metal is king!! much more technical an diverse than most other genres tbh....keeps me on my toes...where as emo just makes me wanna strangle some1 out of pure boredom...an my definition of emo....well....ok....would be somethin like this: punk-ish sort of element due to most of it bein rather damn simplistic and a vocalist (if u wanna call it that) that tends to whine....about the usual old crap...i.e ex gf's,how life is so hard an just about anythin else thats related to feeling sorry for yaself....

 

[eggy]

stuff like fall out boy an the likes.....an MCR....an tbh....it does my head in....

How are these bands 'emo' in a traditional sense? They are completely different to each other. Fallout boy isn't "whiney" music, it's upbeat happy soft rock...just look at their videos. MCR mixes a unique style with a comedy aspect. The two bands you mention have almost nothing in common at all.

They are also both associated with younger listeners. Fallout Boy is a band often classed as 'emo' but plays to a wider audience - very much bridging the gap between 'alternative' music and chart.

Perhaps you are very specific in your musical taste, making all other bands look boring/pointless.

For the record, I don't like Fallout boy's music. It has no depth or talent for me. MCR have done a few good tracks, but they overdo their self-created image.

 

[Thorwyn]

i.e ex gf's,how life is so hard an just about anythin else thats related
to feeling sorry for yaself

Whereas the usual themes of metal bands are usually much more positive.... either ARGHHRRARARAGRAHRRA or UHRUARHRUAHUHUH HUHURARAR!!!!1

 

[Cemeterygates]

Whereas the usual themes of metal bands are usually much more positive.... either ARGHHRRARARAGRAHRRA or UHRUARHRUAHUHUH HUHURARAR!!!!1

lol....i knew i was gonna get somethin like that....but hey....ever listened to dragonforce?? or any power metal for that matter....prob not....ye...some of it just sounds like some1 makin a weird noise.....thats where ur ears come in.....u really listen...u can make it out...with some exceptions ofc....like most grindcore bands...lol

 

[old.Tohtori]

Whereas the usual themes of metal bands are usually much more positive.... either ARGHHRRARARAGRAHRRA or UHRUARHRUAHUHUH HUHURARAR!!!!1

Death metal thank you very much.

Not just "metal" bands.

Would be like calling ray charles pop.

 

[Rellik]

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it.

im just the nuts in your bed post but shududishuladina song? wtf

 

[eggy]

im just the nuts in your bed post but shududishuladina song? wtf

Urm..

I'm just a notch in your bed post, but you're just a line in a song.

You obviously have great hearing!

 

[[SS]Gamblor]

Urm..

I'm just a notch in your bed post, but you're just a line in a song.

You obviously have great hearing!

what ?

 

[Himse]

what ?

^_^

 

[eggy]

what ?

Rellik was trying to recite a line from a Fall Out Boy song (a band that was mentioned previously. He got the lyric completely wrong, so I was correcting him.

 

[[SS]Gamblor]

Rellik was trying to recite a line from a Fall Out Boy song (a band that was mentioned previously. He got the lyric completely wrong, so I was correcting him.

Pardon , you'll have to speak up a bit sonny

 

[eggy]

Pardon , you'll have to speak up a bit sonny

..

?

 

[Cemeterygates]

..

?

oh wake up dude.....its like the age old "are you deaf or something?" with the reply of "ay?"....

 

[eggy]

oh wake up dude.....its like the age old "are you deaf or something?" with the reply of "ay?"....

ok...

 

[Vladamir]

Aoln would be able to put our 'intolerance' of emo's into words, unfortunately i can't

Oh wait, search ftw!

https://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?t=177129

 

[haarewin]

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it.

i thought it was "load it, cock in a bullet."

 

[Outlander]

I thought it was shoot your cock not a bullet

 

[haarewin]

well it certainly is a contender for the 'misheard lyrics' thing they have had going on in the metro lately.