do you listen to emo?

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Grand Master

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Blah. If your girlfriend dumps you, you either A) deserved it, or B) she was a bitch anyways and you're better off. Foamy knows.

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Emo is such a funny topic. In my personal experience, I've found that the emo "community" rarely can agree on an accepted definition of what it is. (Most say punk w/emotional lyrics...which leads to defining what punk is which leads....blah blah blah an eventual headache.) All the emo fans I've come across are militant elitists that lash out against anything popular (seeBike's post above). If they like a band who makes it big or mainstream they label them "sell-outs". Unless they're hopelessly devoted to the band, which is when they change to the "I liked them before they were famous..." garbage. Yes, emo fan, a band is only good if not that many people like them.

EDIT: Can't stress again, this is only a commentary on my personal experience. I encourage attempt at showing me another side.

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Tuffgong4

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I hate emo. I find ****ty guitar riffs, whining unoriginal vocals, and retarded lyrics, completely talentless.

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could not have said it any better myself

I was so hoping emo was dead

my favorite garbage statement about emo is that I was told that a certain band was "emo-core" :no: :no: :no: :no:

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Terrigamer

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Well it's preference and how it relates to you I guess. Personally I can't stand rap at all. It all sounds the same and pretty much every mainstream rap song is either about :

1)guns 2)"bitches" 3)drugs 4)booze 5)bling bling 6)cars/their rims

I'm sure people would be ****ed about me saying that and saying im ignorant on the subject of rap music, and I'd say the same to them about emo. There's just some things we'll never get.

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SoulEata

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Well it's preference and how it relates to you I guess. Personally I can't stand rap at all. It all sounds the same and pretty much every mainstream rap song is either about :

1)guns  2)"bitches"  3)drugs  4)booze  5)bling bling  6)cars/their rims

I'm sure people would be ****ed about me saying that and saying im ignorant on the subject of rap music, and I'd say the same to them about emo. There's just some things we'll never get.

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I'd bitch you out on rap. But it'd be hijacking the thread, so I won't.

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Tuffgong4

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I think my favorite rags to wanna be riches of the emo bands was alkaline trio...they were half way decent when I saw them on accident at Illinois State University(I didn't go there) when I was in college about 4 or 5 years ago, and there were like 30 people watching them. To add I went to see them cause one of the members of Alkaline Trio used to be in a very famous chicago scene band called slapstick so I went. Well they were kind of good and then they started getting whinier and whiner and their lyrics started talking about a dog sh*tting razorblades and stuff and that was when the category of emo started surfacing in the punk scene(what a horrible day)

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Palmeiro

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Emo I agree doesn't take a lot of talent (I could play the whole new Taking Back Sunday CD the day after I got it). But I don't listen to emo looking for a "cool original riff" or massive amounts of talent. I would say 95% of emo is purely talentless. Personally, the reason I listen to emo is because I can connect with lyrics, wether I am or wether I am not in a good emotional or relational state. I like to be able to understand where the lyrics are coming from, and realize that the singer is putting all of his heart into it, wether it sounds whiny, lame or whatever.

In my experiance, people who listen to emo don't listen to it for the same reasons other people listen to punk, rock, rap, etc.

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Agrueing about music is so retarded. If you like emo, you like it and listen to it, If you don't, you don't. You shouldn't flame people who do just because you disagree with their opinion of what they like to listen to.

It's like me posting "I like to eat Twinkies!!!"

and getting a reply "You retard! Twinkies suck! The sugar content is way too high, and the cream filling sucks."

How can anyone possibly tell someone else that a band is good or isn't good, or in this case, a genre?

It's in the eye of the beholder.

So chill out flamers.

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Well it's preference and how it relates to you I guess. Personally I can't stand rap at all. It all sounds the same and pretty much every mainstream rap song is either about :

1)guns  2)"bitches"  3)drugs  4)booze  5)bling bling  6)cars/their rims

I'm sure people would be ****ed about me saying that and saying im ignorant on the subject of rap music, and I'd say the same to them about emo. There's just some things we'll never get.

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Well, most all genre's are like that. Since I'm the most knowledgable about metal, I'll be referring to that genre for examples. Yes, there's lots of ****ty mainstream rap, but look at mainstream metal. It gives you the impression that metal is about being angsty, de-tuning your guitars and dressing in ways 14 year olds emulate to rebel against their white, middle-class parents. But you dig into the meat of the genre and you find creative, simply amazing artists, most of which just wear jeans and a t-shirt. You'll find bands like Opeth that creatively mix soft accoustics and death metal styled riffing while singing about Nature....is that something mainstream metal would lead you to expect to find? No...well, the same holds true for Rap, which is why it ****ed me off when my metalhead friends asay all Rap sucks, etc. no, they're just too ****ing lazy to look for good rap. Compare Immortal Technique to Big Tymers and I think you'll understand where I'm coming from.

SFalcon, that's how any genre is. You have you elitists in metal too, who only like underground Black Metal....the little girls that listen to bands to impress guys etc, the people who get made fun of for liking Cannibal Corpse because they're too mainstream for others to handle, etc etc....

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SoulEata

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Well, most all genre's are like that.  Since I'm the most knowledgable about metal, I'll be referring to that genre for examples.  Yes, there's lots of ****ty mainstream rap, but look at mainstream metal.  It gives you the impression that metal is about being angsty, de-tuning your guitars and dressing in ways 14 year olds emulate to rebel against their white, middle-class parents.  But you dig into the meat of the genre and you find creative, simply amazing artists, most of which just wear jeans and a t-shirt.  You'll find bands like Opeth that creatively mix soft accoustics and death metal styled riffing while singing about Nature....is that something mainstream metal would lead you to expect to find?  No...well, the same holds true for Rap, which is why it ****ed me off when my metalhead friends asay all Rap sucks, etc.  no, they're just too ****ing lazy to look for good rap.  Compare Immortal Technique to Big Tymers and I think you'll understand where I'm coming from.

SFalcon, that's how any genre is.  You have you elitists in metal too, who only like underground Black Metal....the little girls that listen to bands to impress guys etc, the people who get made fun of for liking Cannibal Corpse because they're too mainstream for others to handle, etc etc....

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