Requesting help with the "emo" genre.

[iSasquatchh]

So, for my English class I have to write a scholarly research paper (of whatever topic I so choose).

The topic I chose was," Is "emo" music a major cause in teen suicide cases?"

Now, what I need your help with is:

My professor has asked that I make a brief list of songs that would be considered "Emo" by the masses (Whether they are falsely accused or not) so that she may have a better understanding as to what this new crazy fad is.

So please, feel free to help me out by suggesting some songs I could possible use.

Thanks!

[IntoTheSun]

Sorry, emo is a "new crazy fad"?

[iSasquatchh]

Sorry, emo is a "new crazy fad"?

To my 65 year old professor... yeah. I didn't claim I believed in any of this... And I know better then to classify music as being "emo".

[crackedthesky]

If you don't even know what songs would be considered emo, how can you expect to study how emo effects anything?

[Cuddleworthy]

The Smiths - Asleep

[iSasquatchh]

If you don't even know what songs would be considered emo, how can you expect to study how emo effects anything?

I chose this topic not because I know nothing about the genre, but because if I can change one persons opinion on all the bullshit the media slings about music it'll be worth writing.


The Smiths - Asleep

Thank you.

[x togepi x]

do people still think this in 2009?

[iSasquatchh]

do people still think this in 2009?

Yes, unfortunately.

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/36468

And look at how "emo" the band being blamed is...

[showmethefever]

Who bumped a thread from '01?

[crackedthesky]

I know better then to classify music as being "emo".

I chose this topic not because I know nothing about the genre, but because if I can change one persons opinion on all the bullshit the media slings about music it'll be worth writing.



How are you going to defend a genre you refuse to classify music as being a part of? Come to think of it, if you believe music can't be classified as emo, why are you asking us to classify music as emo for you?

Not sure I understand what you're getting at. But to answer the question, here are a few bands often referred to as emo:

Sunny Day Real Estate
Bright Eyes
Taking Back Sunday
Dashboard Confessional
The Smiths
Say Anything
My Chemical Romance

[SSLYBY]

Fob could be considered emo to the masses. It's so broad.

[iSasquatchh]

How are you going to defend a genre you refuse to classify music as being a part of? Come to think of it, if you believe music can't be classified as emo, why are you asking us to classify music as emo for you?

Not sure I understand what you're getting at. But to answer the question, here are a few bands often referred to as emo:

Sunny Day Real Estate
Bright Eyes
Taking Back Sunday
Dashboard Confessional
The Smiths
Say Anything
My Chemical Romance


The quotation marks are definitely helpful in defending myself right now...

But, none the less. Thanks for the suggestions.

Would Finch or The Cure fall under said category?

[crackedthesky]

The quotation marks are definitely helpful in defending myself right now...

But, none the less. Thanks for the suggestions.

Would Finch or The Cure fall under said category?

Depends on who you talk to. Which is why the very notion of a label or brand of music, or of any art form, really, being the cause of suicide is absolutely ridiculous.

[iSasquatchh]

Depends on who you talk to. Which is why the very notion of a label or brand of music, or of any art form, really, being the cause of suicide is absolutely ridiculous.

I agree full heatedly.

[crackedthesky]

I agree full heatedly.

I would say that it might put someone who is already over the edge into that sort of state of mind. But is it the cause? I don't think so.
Music can inspire people. Not sure anyone can argue with that. People make music to inspire people to do good, so it would be false to say the opposite couldn't happen. But I severely doubt that, in the unlikely instance an artist would write a song with the sincere desire to provoke people to kill themselves, any stable-minded person would actually do it because of said song.

[x togepi x]

13 year old girls are dumb.

[HometownHero]

The quotation marks are definitely helpful in defending myself right now...

But, none the less. Thanks for the suggestions.

Would Finch or The Cure fall under said category?
No The Cure would not

[iSasquatchh]

I would say that it might put someone who is already over the edge into that sort of state of mind. But is it the cause? I don't think so.
Music can inspire people. Not sure anyone can argue with that. People make music to inspire people to do good, so it would be false to say the opposite couldn't happen. But I severely doubt that, in the unlikely instance an artist would write a song with the sincere desire to provoke people to kill themselves, any stable-minded person would actually do it because of said song.

Precisely. This is however, going to be a very rough paper in the means of finding scholarly work to cite or solid "proof" that is not opinionated. (Even though music, being as subjective as it is, is completely and utterly opinionated.)

[crackedthesky]

No The Cure would not

Why not?

[crackedthesky]

Precisely. This is however, going to be a very rough paper in the means of finding scholarly work to cite or solid "proof" that is not opinionated. (Even though music, being as subjective as it is, is completely and utterly opinionated.)

It's a school paper. You can pretty much make everything in it up, and if it looks good enough, it'll pass.

[HometownHero]

Why not?
Cause they're not. Goth? New-Wave? Alternative? Not emo

[crackedthesky]

Cause they're not. Goth? New-Wave? Alternative? Not emo

"Because they're not" isn't a good reason for why they're not.

[HometownHero]

"Because they're not" isn't a good reason for why they're not.
But the three genres I just posted that they fall under are.

[x togepi x]

"Because they're not" isn't a good reason for why they're not.

how about "because they're not a hardcore band"?

I don't want to get into the whole defining a genre that should die a slow painful death but you can't really act high and mighty like this when you don't even know what you're talking about.

[iSasquatchh]

Cause they're not. Goth? New-Wave? Alternative? Not emo

You fail to have read thoroughly enough to understand that granted you or I may know better, the majority is ignorant on the matter.

I'm not asking what music is emo to you, but more so what a misunderstanding society would.

[iSasquatchh]

how about "because they're not a hardcore band"?

I don't want to get into the whole defining a genre that should die a slow painful death but you can't really act high and mighty like this when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Thank you.

[spunkmastaflex]

Also look into Blue October, very sad stuff there

[x togepi x]

Thank you.

i really feel like you're barking up the wrong tree when it comes to a paper like this. you're going to find much better sources for something like violence in music doesn't lead to violence in teens.

[crackedthesky]

But the three genres I just posted that they fall under are.

how about "because they're not a hardcore band"?

I don't want to get into the whole defining a genre that should die a slow painful death but you can't really act high and mighty like this when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I'll stop this before it starts. Apologies, if I've offended anyone, and I'm definitely not trying to act high and mighty. I didn't say the band was emo, either. But there are people who will. I just wanted to demonstrate how difficult it is to say, one way or the other, and why that lends to how ridiculous it is to blame a genre for something. We can't agree nor scientifically define what a genre consists of, so to blame one for something as serious as suicide just seems stupid.

[iSasquatchh]

i really feel like you're barking up the wrong tree when it comes to a paper like this. you're going to find much better sources for something like violence in music doesn't lead to violence in teens.

An easier idea to research, yes. However, I have always found it much easier to write a lengthy paper on a subject I give a rats ass about, and stupid ass "tough-guy" radio rap fight songs don't quite suit me.

[crackedthesky]

i really feel like you're barking up the wrong tree when it comes to a paper like this. you're going to find much better sources for something like violence in music doesn't lead to violence in teens.

I agree with this.

[x togepi x]

I'll stop this before it starts. Apologies, if I've offended anyone, and I'm definitely not trying to act high and mighty. I didn't say the band was emo, either. But there are people who will. I just wanted to demonstrate how difficult it is to say, one way or the other, and why that lends to how ridiculous it is to blame a genre for something. We can't agree nor scientifically define what a genre consists of, so to blame one for something as serious as suicide just seems stupid.

yeah it isn't the best topic for a paper that isn't really about music. it's easy to define them but not so in a paper that's about music AND something else. especially when the suicide part is probably the big focal point, i doubt the teacher is going to want a long summary of the last 25 years of indie rock just to get to the point of it.

[x togepi x]

An easier idea to research, yes. However, I have always found it much easier to write a lengthy paper on a subject I give a rats ass about, and stupid ass "tough-guy" radio rap fight songs don't quite suit me.

the problem here is that mall emo has only been around for maybe a decade, and a lot of the sources surrounding it will be media LOOK AT THE KIDS? THE KIDS? stories instead of worthwhile academic sources. i don't know how your teacher is so maybe you can get away with that but i know i couldn't.

[Akissforher]

why not just use the story from a few years back how alot of parents blamed mcr for a child in the u.k's suicide?

[crackedthesky]

why not just use the story from a few years back how alot of parents blamed mcr for a child in the u.k's suicide?

Referenced on the first page.

[l_strange]

breaking benjamin - dear agony

[HometownHero]

I'll stop this before it starts. Apologies, if I've offended anyone, and I'm definitely not trying to act high and mighty. I didn't say the band was emo, either. But there are people who will. I just wanted to demonstrate how difficult it is to say, one way or the other, and why that lends to how ridiculous it is to blame a genre for something. We can't agree nor scientifically define what a genre consists of, so to blame one for something as serious as suicide just seems stupid.
Thick eye make up and big hair does not make one emo.

[HometownHero]

breaking benjamin - dear agony
Lol

[crackedthesky]

Thick eye make up and big hair does not make one emo.

Well aware. Just as gazing at one's shoes does not make their music shoegaze.
It's the music, not the appearance or the fashion sense. People tend to forget that.

[iSasquatchh]

breaking benjamin - dear agony

Haha. You really made your first post on AP one to be remembered...

[ate_teenfourevr]

ill help you out since everyone is starting their own argument in this thread haha.

My Chemical Romance - Helena and Im Not Okay
Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team)
Jimmy Eat World - 23
Something Corporate - Cavanaugh Park.... IM NOT SAYING THE BAND IS EMO, BUT THAT SONG IS "EMO"TIONAL
Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me
Armour For Sleep - Car Underwater
Fall Out Boy - Dead on Arrival... and Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloo -- Listen to the lyrics, they are emo/depressing as shit
Hawthorne Heights - Saying Sorry
Senses Fail - Buried a Lie and The Irony of Dying on Your Birthday
A Thorn for Every Heart - Pretty When You Cry
Underoath - A Boy Brushed Red
The Used - All That I've Got and Im A Fake


hope that helps a little bit.. ill probably get bashed for putting some of these songs on this list, but oh well. Like an earlier post said music is not so much subjective as it is opinionated

[crackedthesky]

ill help you out since everyone is starting their own argument in this thread haha.

My Chemical Romance - Helena and Im Not Okay
Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team)
Jimmy Eat World - 23
Something Corporate - Cavanaugh Park.... IM NOT SAYING THE BAND IS EMO, BUT THAT SONG IS "EMO"TIONAL
Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me
Armour For Sleep - Car Underwater
Fall Out Boy - Dead on Arrival... and Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloo -- Listen to the lyrics, they are emo/depressing as shit
Hawthorne Heights - Saying Sorry
Senses Fail - Buried a Lie and The Irony of Dying on Your Birthday
A Thorn for Every Heart - Pretty When You Cry
Underoath - A Boy Brushed Red
The Used - All That I've Got and Im A Fake


hope that helps a little bit.. ill probably get bashed for putting some of these songs on this list, but oh well. Like an earlier post said music is not so much subjective as it is opinionated

Emo goes deeper than lyrics, though. If emo relied entirely on lyrics, then there'd be no argument that The Cure was an emo band. But when you really think about it, how many songs don't have emotional lyrics? If that was the only factor, basically, we'd be left with two genres: emo, and techno.

[summer skin]

la la la this thread is fucking stupid la la la do you go to retard school? la la la

[ate_teenfourevr]

Emo goes deeper than lyrics, though. If emo relied entirely on lyrics, then there'd be no argument that The Cure was an emo band. But when you really think about it, how many songs don't have emotional lyrics? If that was the only factor, basically, we'd be left with two genres: emo, and techno.

i like that statement the best, but i guess you could say i listed bands/songs of moreso "scene emo" bands that were labeled as such.

emo is not a synonym for shitty... (FOB reference) but for what this kid is looking for in his paper, i think some of the stuff i listed would be useful

and for the record i love every song i listed, so im not bashing any of those bands at all.. if ppl are going to say that stuff is EMO then i LOVE EMO. ha

[introduction]

it's going to be hard to write about a genre that isn't a genre. effectively, emo does not exist, or all music is emo.

[tyramail]

this is going to be a very hard paper to write, i think. it is quite broad. from my experience, emo to the masses means fall out boy or my chemical romance, eye makeup and tight jeans.

[cirerelleum]

So, for my English class I have to write a scholarly research paper (of whatever topic I so choose).

The topic I chose was," Is "emo" music a major cause in teen suicide cases?"

Now, what I need your help with is:

My professor has asked that I make a brief list of songs that would be considered "Emo" by the masses (Whether they are falsely accused or not) so that she may have a better understanding as to what this new crazy fad is.

So please, feel free to help me out by suggesting some songs I could possible use.

Thanks!

If you don't mind me asking, how are you planning to link "emo" to suicide cases?


A basic list of songs that the "masses" would consider "emo" and relate to your topic would be:

Blink 182: Adam's Song
Blink 182: I Miss You
Hawthrone Heights: Ohio is for Lovers
Jimmy Eat World: Pain
Good Charlotte: Hold On
The Used: Box of Sharp Objects

[ned.89]

So, for my English class I have to write a scholarly research paper (of whatever topic I so choose).

The topic I chose was," Is "emo" music a major cause in teen suicide cases?"

Now, what I need your help with is:

My professor has asked that I make a brief list of songs that would be considered "Emo" by the masses (Whether they are falsely accused or not) so that she may have a better understanding as to what this new crazy fad is.

So please, feel free to help me out by suggesting some songs I could possible use.

Thanks!

you're going to have nothing to write your paper on. The vast majority of the songs that are being recommended to you aren't even emo. Some real emo bands are:
Fugazi
Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbreaker
Weezer
The Get Up Kids
Braid
Rites of Spring

Maybe you should write your paper on how much shitty music people shove under the umbrella of emo when it actually has nothing to do with the genre of music. Emo has nothing to do "with the style of hair" or the "feel of the lyrics." It's just a strand of punk rock.

[EchoPark]

sorry pal but I doubt you or anyone can help the emo genre, it is gone to the wolves

[NateFoundGlory]

you're going to have nothing to write your paper on. The vast majority of the songs that are being recommended to you aren't even emo. Some real emo bands are:
Fugazi
Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbreaker
Weezer
The Get Up Kids
Braid
Rites of Spring

Maybe you should write your paper on how much shitty music people shove under the umbrella of emo when it actually has nothing to do with the genre of music. Emo has nothing to do "with the style of hair" or the "feel of the lyrics." It's just a strand of punk rock.

I kinda like the way this person thinks.

Also, I warned you about this Alex haha.

[georgedcc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo


Hardly definitive, but it might help you with an overview.

[zachff]

you're going to have nothing to write your paper on. The vast majority of the songs that are being recommended to you aren't even emo. Some real emo bands are:
Fugazi
Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbreaker
Weezer
The Get Up Kids
Braid
Rites of Spring

Maybe you should write your paper on how much shitty music people shove under the umbrella of emo when it actually has nothing to do with the genre of music. Emo has nothing to do "with the style of hair" or the "feel of the lyrics." It's just a strand of punk rock.

This man speaketh the truth

[QuietThings430]

Rick Astley
Metallica
Nickelback
Soulja Boy
Poision
Kiss

The e-word should've never existed.

[Shane Standlea]

If you're looking for cliche, mass market "emo", then are you thinking among the lines of Hawthorne Heights and From First to Last? Not really true emo music, but it completely fits the stereotype I think that you're looking for.

"Cut my wrists and black my eyes" ?

[Shane Standlea]

you're going to have nothing to write your paper on. The vast majority of the songs that are being recommended to you aren't even emo. Some real emo bands are:
Fugazi
Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbreaker
Weezer
The Get Up Kids
Braid
Rites of Spring

Maybe you should write your paper on how much shitty music people shove under the umbrella of emo when it actually has nothing to do with the genre of music. Emo has nothing to do "with the style of hair" or the "feel of the lyrics." It's just a strand of punk rock.

This.

[MonopolyMan]

emo is only short for "emotional" which IMO is almost everything you hear in music. There are plenty of songs even from the 20's and 30's that where about "girls" and "breakups" and not wanting to live, so you gunna call that "emo" too?? I hate the word and terms it's always associated with, and if you think "emo" should even be considered as a genre as it's described, you should do a little more research than what you heard in 3rd period.

[wall e]

Who bumped a thread from '01?

Lol.

Also, how has no one even mentioned Thursday yet? Tisk tisk tisk...

[Burn That Shit]

emo is something i yell when i get enough momentum on the swing set to launch off like a rocket ship. write your paper on that.

[cshadows2887]

emo is something i yell when i get enough momentum on the swing set to launch off like a rocket ship. write your paper on that.

This cracked me up. Thank you, sir.

[showmethefever]

MonopolyMan, I can't quote because my phone won't let me, but good job with the whole making yourself look like a fucking idiot thing.

[iSasquatchh]

ill help you out since everyone is starting their own argument in this thread haha.

My Chemical Romance - Helena and Im Not Okay
Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team)
Jimmy Eat World - 23
Something Corporate - Cavanaugh Park.... IM NOT SAYING THE BAND IS EMO, BUT THAT SONG IS "EMO"TIONAL
Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me
Armour For Sleep - Car Underwater
Fall Out Boy - Dead on Arrival... and Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloo -- Listen to the lyrics, they are emo/depressing as shit
Hawthorne Heights - Saying Sorry
Senses Fail - Buried a Lie and The Irony of Dying on Your Birthday
A Thorn for Every Heart - Pretty When You Cry
Underoath - A Boy Brushed Red
The Used - All That I've Got and Im A Fake


hope that helps a little bit.. ill probably get bashed for putting some of these songs on this list, but oh well. Like an earlier post said music is not so much subjective as it is opinionated

Thank you, kind sir.

la la la this thread is fucking stupid la la la do you go to retard school? la la la

Jesus Christ, could you be any stupider? lalalala. Don't ever bring your opinion to my thread again.

it's going to be hard to write about a genre that isn't a genre. effectively, emo does not exist, or all music is emo.

Yes. It is.

this is going to be a very hard paper to write, i think. it is quite broad. from my experience, emo to the masses means fall out boy or my chemical romance, eye makeup and tight jeans.

And that is why I chose to write about this.

If you don't mind me asking, how are you planning to link "emo" to suicide cases?


A basic list of songs that the "masses" would consider "emo" and relate to your topic would be:

Blink 182: Adam's Song
Blink 182: I Miss You
Hawthrone Heights: Ohio is for Lovers
Jimmy Eat World: Pain
Good Charlotte: Hold On
The Used: Box of Sharp Objects

Thank you. I plan on countering arguments that "emo" music was the cause in these suicides.

you're going to have nothing to write your paper on. The vast majority of the songs that are being recommended to you aren't even emo. Some real emo bands are:
Fugazi
Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbreaker
Weezer
The Get Up Kids
Braid
Rites of Spring

Maybe you should write your paper on how much shitty music people shove under the umbrella of emo when it actually has nothing to do with the genre of music. Emo has nothing to do "with the style of hair" or the "feel of the lyrics." It's just a strand of punk rock.

Thank you.

sorry pal but I doubt you or anyone can help the emo genre, it is gone to the wolves

Dear God you couldn't be more right.

I kinda like the way this person thinks.

Also, I warned you about this Alex haha.

Yea, I shoulda taken your word for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo


Hardly definitive, but it might help you with an overview.

Thank you. Will read when I get the chance.

[summer skin]

You're writing a god damn essay on "emo" in 2010. I spit on you.

[iSasquatchh]

You're writing a god damn essay on "emo" in 2010. I spit on you.

You're bringing your stupid comments to my thread again.

I piss on you.

[the seventeenth]

Aiden's - I Set My Freinds On Fire.
Seems emo enough.

[summer skin]

You're bringing your stupid comments to my thread again.

I piss on you.
I jerk my dick off on your face until I cum.

[iSasquatchh]

I jerk my dick off on your face until I cum.

I swallow every last drop.

[summer skin]

I swallow every last drop.
I keep jerking my limp dick until it falls off then I rub the bloody stump on your thesis statement.

[xxemo_kittyxx]

I think that acts of suicide that were committed by young people and associated for emo music is not the fault of the genre itself. Most of the bands that were blamed did not encourage their fans to commit suicide, rather they paraphrase feelings that were initially there in the first place. These kids might have been depressed prior to finding out about emo, and they identified the genre because it provided an explanation for what they're feeling. Plus its cool + the band has hot guys and it's not cool enough that the whole school is into it, but just a few people are. A smart (but depressed) fan would look upon them and think that their idols were in the same bleak position at one point in their lives, but they have made it through, or are at least on the right track. That's what I thought when I was into emo in middle school, but I guess some people are not as lucky.

[iSasquatchh]

I keep jerking my limp dick until it falls off then I rub the bloody stump on your thesis statement.

I almost hated you until I saw your profile and realized that you were just a pasty, skinny, hipster with a pumpkin hand and stupid beanie placed on top of your ugly hair.

I think that acts of suicide that were committed by young people and associated for emo music is not the fault of the genre itself. Most of the bands that were blamed did not encourage their fans to commit suicide, rather they paraphrase feelings that were initially there in the first place. These kids might have been depressed prior to finding out about emo, and they identified the genre because it provided an explanation for what they're feeling. Plus its cool + the band has hot guys and it's not cool enough that the whole school is into it, but just a few people are. A smart (but depressed) fan would look upon them and think that their idols were in the same bleak position at one point in their lives, but they have made it through, or are at least on the right track. That's what I thought when I was into emo in middle school, but I guess some people are not as lucky.

Thank you. I need to find some articles about a teenager's struggle to fit in.

[Mibabalou]

taylor swift

[summer skin]

I almost hated you until I saw your profile and realized that you were just a pasty, skinny, hipster with a pumpkin hand and stupid beanie placed on top of your ugly hair.

damn girl, next you're gonna tell me I have flat breasts.

[xxemo_kittyxx]

Thank you. I need to find some articles about a teenager's struggle to fit in.

Its not a matter of fitting in, but more of accepting who they are and establishing a healthy self concept and a healthy self esteem and early interventions towards psychological (particularly mood or anxiety) disorders.

[iSasquatchh]

taylor swift

Don't sink to summer skin's level

damn girl, next you're gonna tell me I have flat breasts.

Don't sink to Mibabalou's level...

[xJesusFreakx]

I'm glad we've evolved from "emo" insults to "hipster" insults.

[summer skin]

I want to rape you so hard right now...

[iSasquatchh]

Its not a matter of fitting in, but more of accepting who they are and establishing a healthy self concept and a healthy self esteem and early interventions towards psychological (particularly mood or anxiety) disorders.

I think classifying every little attention whore teenager as having a "disorder" is a far stretch however. I don't think the word "disorder" should really even exist.

[summer skin]

http://www.alwaysgirls.com/bigimage/1152/system_of_a_down11.jpg
DISORRRDER DISORRDER DISOOOOOORRRRRDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR

[iSasquatchh]

You make me feel like the beautiful young lady I've always wanted to be.

[summer skin]

You make me feel like the beautiful young lady I've always wanted to be.
http://www.alwaysgirls.com/bigimage/1152/system_of_a_down11.jpg

[Burn That Shit]

I keep jerking my limp dick until it falls off then I rub the bloody stump on your thesis statement.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8248/1266350333303.jpg
http://img186.imageshack.us/i/1266350333303.jpg/

[NateFoundGlory]

This is fun.

[summer skin]

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8248/1266350333303.jpg
http://img186.imageshack.us/i/1266350333303.jpg/
hahaha

[JordanBuell]

Who bumped a thread from '01?

haha win

[theguy77]

haha i cant believe this stupid debate still happens.

[TROKyle]

I missed the memo where "emo" was a genre.
Music that makes me want to kill myself can easily be accessed if I just turn the radio on.
Should write your paper on;
Justin Beiber
Jonas Brothers
Miley Cirus
Any other 12 year old singing about love.

[more heart]

Who bumped a thread from '01?
This.

[Maiaophilia]

the major band I can see as being associated with teen suicide is MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE.

[ned.89]

This thread went downhill fast.

[TROKyle]

This.

Who bumped a thread from '01?


12:39 AM on 02/18/10
#1 (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=62342602#post62342 602)


dsylexia?

[more heart]

12:39 AM on 02/18/10
#1 (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=62342602#post62342 602)


dsylexia?
I guess the joke went way over your head...

[TROKyle]

I guess the joke went way over your head...

No I got it.
Joke was referring to this problem being a big deal/discussed in 01.

[xapplexpiex]

Wtf at topic of your essay.
But people that have no idea what they're tlaking about associate "emo" with bands like Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and Taking Back Sunday.

[notdeadyet]

Cause they're not. Goth? New-Wave? Alternative? Not emo

Not. Goth. Please, anything but goth. Have you heard Friday I'm in Love? Just Like Heaven? Lovecats? Yes, maybe New wave and Alternative, and yes, some of their albums were simply depressing as hell, but their music is spread across too many moods and ideas to *just* be goth...


As stated earlier, big hair and make-up DOES NOT make a band belong in a certain genre, like "emo". Anyway, genres are so completely blurred together lately, nothing is "purely" rock or punk or anything, so you really cant state that any band is one specific genre... Unless it's something between techno and country haha

[pleasedontask]

Alkaline Trio? If that wasn't mentioned.

But I mean, I even remember looking at Ocean Avenue on itunes in like 6th grade and it being labled as Emo on the itunes store.

[iSasquatchh]

I never thought my own thread would make me RAGE so hard.

[HometownHero]

Not. Goth. Please, anything but goth. Have you heard Friday I'm in Love? Just Like Heaven? Lovecats? Yes, maybe New wave and Alternative, and yes, some of their albums were simply depressing as hell, but their music is spread across too many moods and ideas to *just* be goth...


As stated earlier, big hair and make-up DOES NOT make a band belong in a certain genre, like "emo". Anyway, genres are so completely blurred together lately, nothing is "purely" rock or punk or anything, so you really cant state that any band is one specific genre... Unless it's something between techno and country haha
Well they were one of the goth bands around that time. Not your age group goth douche bags with huge pants and chains. There was nothing douchey about it. They were not just goth.

[l_strange]

Haha. You really made your first post on AP one to be remembered...
thankyou very much

[l_strange]

Emo goes deeper than lyrics, though. If emo relied entirely on lyrics, then there'd be no argument that The Cure was an emo band. But when you really think about it, how many songs don't have emotional lyrics? If that was the only factor, basically, we'd be left with two genres: emo, and techno.

so true emo music is more based of the feeling it gives off not neccessarily the lyrics although they do play a key part in making the genre, however i think that the emo genre is far to broard it seems to extend its grasp into punk, hardcore and srceamo and even your basic rock in some cases, emo itself is not a genre but a mixture of other genres and therefore i think that the emo music scene is to hard to pin down and describe

[Stavie Steelo]

There isn't going to be any sources for this paper at all.

[l_strange]

There isn't going to be any sources for this paper at all.

it appears that this has turned into a debate on what exactly emo music is rather than resorces for it

[Stavie Steelo]

it appears that this has turned into a debate on what exactly emo music is rather than resorces for it
Exactly why there won't be any sources everyone has a different view on what emo is, I don't even think of it as a genre but more a fashion sense now.

[l_strange]

Exactly why there won't be any sources everyone has a different view on what emo is, I don't even think of it as a genre but more a fashion sense now.

agreed it varies too much to be a genre, at least thats what i think, well more so its moved from being a genre of music to a fashion sence and has taken a lot of different genres into it, suck as punk, screamo, hard-core, and other such genres