fretburner: i do not consider any band that you label emo as emo. enough said. the rest are just opinion. or fact based thoughts that you and i have been throwing around. oh well lets call it a day. ill admit we arent going anywhere with this. were starting to go below the belt na. if hating emo gives you a sense of personal satisfaction, then so be it. wag lang umabot sa personalan. i think mejo naging halata that i have an aversion to hair metal. but i dont hate it. haha. never liked some of the bands. maybe not yet.
i wonder what genre is next on the chopping board for mtv?
chromeknive: "so i really think comparing music from before to now really doesn't show us anything because what's been done before is what new artists should be avoiding in the first place."
i can actually say that "emo" now and emo then are two totally DIFFERENT genres. ang layo na. one of the names have to go and most of the bands i knew from that era actually hate the term emo now. their fans refer to them as skram now to avoid the obvious confusion going on. i just used the term 90s emo so as to stay relevant.
as a guitarist napansin ko mas metal oriented na ang riffs ng modern emo. mga iba nga ala swedish death metal na. "chug chug tenenenen" et al. without the overall mood. and the singing. i think hair metal without vibrato and a cold (as much as i dont like hair metal. ang ganda ng mga boses nila. the style turns me off) lyrics? well instead of singing about sex they sing about not getting any. HAHA.
i like manowar tho.
imo this thread is just a big "kick me" sign to modern emo. i came into this thread seeing all bashers on the genre. almost like putting emo on a rope and making it a pinata. i could care less about modern emo. no way am i lifting a finger for those whiny arse bands. the bad thing is, i knew what it was and i saw that it was good. i just want to make it clear that it wasnt gay, that it wasnt cheesy. and most of all, it wast commercialized. i also noticed that most emo kids today are turning into this:
"when kids get bored of just being “emo,” they tend to migrate toward something more chaotic. this is where the brootal character comes in. almost like parasites, they move from one scene to another, draining all originality from that genre before moving onto the next.
not sophisticated enough to understand technical metal, and too much of a pansy to hang with the death metal crowd, he hangs with the rest of the brootal kids. as a collective, they have no idea where they are headed. they listen to brootal music not because they have an appreciation or understanding of it, but because it is practically unlistenable.
he works on grindcore logos in his notebook all day long, as he aspires to one day design band merch. to show the world his poetic side, he renames himself using alliteration- davey deathkill or stevey suicide, for example.
much like the mindless music they listen to, one brootal kid is hard to differentiate from another due to the swarm of white belts and out of control hair."
http://yourscenesucks.comits satirical. but there is some truth to it. the emo kids are turning METAL. oh no.
metalheads, dont you just hate that?
"ok sana emo kaso daming nag eemo-emohan e. feel na feel, one side buhok tapos wala naman palang alam. nangyari na dati yun d2 sa pinas, nung 97 umusbong ulet mga punks, pero dami na naman mga boploks na di naman naiintindihan ang prinsipyo ng punks, ang nagcla-claim na punks sila. bumaho tuloy. gaya ngaun bumaho na emo dahil sa mga emongers orcers..."
oh diba? pati punk purists naakagat na rin ng mtv noon.
