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Turn off the radio? I can't even listen to the radio any more. My Chemical Romance isn't emo. They call themselves Metal / Post Hardcore. How the heck can you complain about MCR being overplayed when S.O.A.D. gets played almost non-stop on the radio? They aren't even a quarter of MCR's talent. Unless you're talking about MTV2 or Fuse, in which case replace S.O.A.D. with Hawthorne Heights.
It's the other way around, in my opinion. MCR doesn't have a quarter of SoaD's talent. I absolutly love SoaD though, so I'm biased. xD
While we're on the topic of emo music, how about Linkin Park. They are definitely emo. All they do is b*tch. They are so annoying, my sister listens to them all the time.
Radio? What's that? Oh that's that thing that music corporations use to pay off radio DJs to play the same boring, abysmal crap over and over again.
When I am in my car, I am listening to what I want when I want. I don't need some rich old men in suits telling me what I should listen to. It's my choise.
It always boggles my mind when I am in a car with one of those people who have 1,000,000,000 CDs lying aorund everywhere, and they switch between two radio stations that generaly play the same thing. Morons. Every single one of you.
None of the music people claim that is "emo", is anywhere near "emo", and those that are "emo", most people don't listen to, even though it's far too awkward a genre to define or usually even really exist.
People associate emo with whining, and generally angsty stupid teenage rubbish, and a lot of people call themselves "emo" by being angsty stupid (and very much middle-class) teens. In reality, they're just idiots listening to mostly idiotic music like Linkin Park, desperately grasping to their claim it's "emo" and attempting to define their lives by the overtly angst-ridden songs or albums.
MCR are pop alt-rock anyway.
I make fun of emo like there's no tomorrow, but Helena is a very decent song with a very good music video. Hardly anything wrong with it compared to the stuff that Dashboard Confessional and Taking Back Sunday put out.
NPR = the ONLY radio.
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I listen to an '80s station in my car, and I avoid Fuse and MTV, so y'know.
MCR are pretty good.. or so i think.. =3
MTV pounded Helena into my brain with a sledgehammer.
MCR is not great, and they are overrated and way overplayed, but i must admit Helena is a decent song. It sucks too because almost every band you dislike seems to have 1 song you cant stop repeating. :P
Easy, listen to older music. I can't stand punk, rap, or any of that nu metal. It's all crap imo. It used to take skill to capture a large audience, but now all you have to do is play a pattern for a short amount of time. No lightning solos there. I'm only 14 by the way so don't asume I'm some geezer who doesn't want to go through the times :tongue:
Interpol is real emo music.
you can only blame yourself for not turning the dial/changing the channel/doing something with yourself
Much as I'd love for Emo to always mean Antioch Arrow and Christie Front Drive, the simple fact of the matter is that definitions change. Just like punk once meant The Clash and The Sex Pistols, but now means NOFX and The Offspring, so Emo now means something other than what it meant back in the mid-80s. Besides which, the lines between Emo, Indie, Punk, and the like can be very easily blurred.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindy
That would be ok, if the so-called emo music of late actually covered EMOTIONS, but it doesn't, it's just angst and whine and no substance.
I refuse to ever accept that defined as emo.