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Post by kylerexpop on Feb 26, 2007 15:02:19 GMT -5
i really thought i had posted this thread like a week ago. oops!
anyway: what are, in your opinion, the best examples of emo music?
i must know! thanks!
p.s. i don't know if any or all of it qualifies as emo music, but here's an initial statement to kick things off: not only are both avril lavigne albums a lot of fun, but all six of the soundtracks to "the oc" are AB FAB. discuss!
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Post by DarthShady on Feb 27, 2007 15:42:02 GMT -5
Avril Lavigne is not so much emo as it is pop-punk. Her worrds are more filled with anger than sadness, a key emotion to produce emo music. I don't know about the OC soundtracks, but I'm sure there are some emo tracks on there.
Emo music is usually a very pop-rock sound. Something you can dance too at a concert but not at the club. But what really defines emo (in my opinion) is the mood of the lyrics, not the actual music. It's normally the type of adolescent-wallows-in-self-pity type of language, but can also be hopeful, and often deal with death or morbid language at the least. In some cases (Fallout Boy's "Dance Dance" comes to mind,) the themes of their songs aren't necessarily the classic emo adolescent depression, but the feeling of not-quite-fitting-in-to-society's-expectations. (The irony of this is that as the emo trend has taken control over the teenaged market, they're not exactly rejects anymore.)
Emo songs are normally very simple thoights punctuated with a big word so they sound smarter. A lot of the time the basic idea behind the song is the same - somebody rejected me and now no one feels pain like I do - but the lyricists do have a way of bending the word choices so it does sound new in many instances. I wouldn't call it poetry per se, but if a high schooler wrote poems like that for their school's paper, it'd get published. But it is pretty one-dimensional when compared to the works of Eliot, Frost, Coolidge, and all those cats.
Popular emo bamds include Fallout Boy (though some say there are more pop than ever nowadays,) Panic! at the Disco, All-American Rejects, and Coheed & Cambria.
The very best example I can think of for emo music is probably Dashboard Confessional. My sister disagrees and says that Hawthorne Heights or Panic! at the Disco are the best examples. Seeing as she actually follows the trend, maybe her suggestion's better.
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Post by Magill on Feb 27, 2007 16:30:48 GMT -5
Bright Eyes is rather emo.
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Post by PoolMan on Feb 27, 2007 17:29:25 GMT -5
Does anyone else mentally insert a little pause in the name "Panic! at the Disco"?
PANIC!
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AT THE DISCO!
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Post by DarthShady on Feb 28, 2007 15:46:57 GMT -5
Does anyone else mentally insert a little pause in the name "Panic! at the Disco"? PANIC! ... AT THE DISCO! I kind of think-scream "PANIC!" and then hear a smooth-talking DJ-voice in my head saying "at the Disco." |
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Post by PoolMan on Feb 28, 2007 15:49:40 GMT -5
I just think it's odd to have Punctuation! in the Middle of your Sentence.
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Post by Spiderdancer on Feb 28, 2007 15:53:28 GMT -5
I just think it's odd to have Punctuation! in the Middle of your Sentence. lol u dont spend much Time! on forums do u? Shalen thinks she broke something typing that sentence. Possibly her soul. |
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Post by pfrsue on Feb 28, 2007 16:20:45 GMT -5
lol u dont spend much Time! on forums do u? Shalen thinks she broke something typing that sentence. Possibly her soul. i think u did a gr8 job! imho, rofl. |
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Post by kylerexpop on Mar 5, 2007 22:49:57 GMT -5
where does death cab for cutie fall on the spectrum?
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Post by Hilasophy on Mar 6, 2007 0:06:51 GMT -5
No, I would say it falls under the category of "something the xxemoxx kids illegally adopted as their own." The same goes for Bright Eyes, they're not emo, but they've been absorbed by the emotionally challenged, adolescent, collective.
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Post by kylerexpop on Mar 8, 2007 3:08:02 GMT -5
how about arcade fire?
the new deluxe version of their cd comes with two flipbooks? OH MY GOSH!
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Post by Magill on Mar 8, 2007 11:50:26 GMT -5
I don't think Arcade Fire is emo. Their instrumentation is more full than what I associate with emo music.
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Post by eatmyshorts on Mar 10, 2007 14:34:17 GMT -5
emo music is horrible. it's mtv produced bull crap. fall out boy, hawthorne heights, and panic at the whatever are some of the worst excuses for "music" i've ever heard. and what's with the stupid pseudo-witty extremely long song titles? ew.
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Post by DarthShady on Mar 11, 2007 1:25:42 GMT -5
Dude, I love the song, but can't stand this title at all: "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me."
Fallout Boy's my guilty pleasure, but how prententious can ya get? And it doesn't even have to do with the song! At least sing the title if it's that long. MAKE SENSE!
And I can't stand Panic! in the least, but people are always singing "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" around me and I can't help but think "I Write Long, Non-Sensicle, Pompous Song Titles, Not Music Worthy Of Being Called Music. PS - I'm Like The Samson Of Emo Kids. My Hair Is The Source Of My Fame."
*end angry rant*
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Post by Hilasophy on Mar 12, 2007 3:12:49 GMT -5
My current emolicious lyric is from the band Rise Against, "I'm standing on the rooftop ready to fall..." Just effing jump already. I am sick of the threatening. Just do it.
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