Emo is terrible. When I am king, anybody who listens to it will be shot. Why do I hate emo so much? People ask me that, and I say that my answer is too complicated because my hatred for emo extends into the bowels of my body. Every cell in it trembles with hatred for it. Why? Many reasons.
1. Emo is bad music. Not like in the rap or country sense of bad music; because those genres are actually appreciated by some for their true value. Those that listen to it listen to it because it reflects their lifestyle and heritage. EMO DOES NOT. It is a sub genre of punk (as much as i hate to say it), but the two could not be more different. I have no idea why they are grouped together. If someone likes America, works on a farm, and gas a southern twang, then their country music will reflect that. If someone grows up in the ghetto,, and is forced with a daily fear of street violence or getting their house robbed, rap reflects that lifestyle. HOWEVER, if you are normal and listen to the contemporary music of the day, and all of the sudden are exposed to emo and forced to believe it's cool, you are now a product of shitty music (see point 4).
2. The core value of punk is "i've got a problem (with authority), so i'm gonna blow shit up and then write a song and thrash my problems into oblivion, so tomorrow I'll live a wonderful and complete life."
Emo, on the other hand, deals with their problems in a different manner. "I've got a problem (a completley normal one, but i'm gonna overblow it so people will take pity on me), so i'm going to be depressed (for no good reason) so people will take pity on me. Then, i'll pretend like i dont want their pity, so they will take more pity on me, then i'll wirte a song about how nobody loves me, so i can open up my pity trip to a completely differnt realm of people."
See the difference?
3. They are singlehandedly responsible for the pussification of the world. I'm not one for war, but i'm talking about the values people have for each other. What happened to the days when natural selection dictated that the most suitable to survive dictated survival? Whimpy ass emo kids have now lowered the standard form the one who is most suitable to the current "in" thing. Because of it's viruslike spread, emo is now the dominant rock form. Depressed kids didn't get cuter, you just want the in thing. And it's fucking terrible. Girls, remember that every time you say an emo kid is cute, I will kill a kitten. Personally.
4. And lastly, emo is shitty music. Why listen to it? Why do you want to be depressed? Maybe it's the musical value? Emo consists of:
-Repetitive guitar lines
-Repetitive drum lines
-Catchy lyrics.
Why is that an attractive musical style? Maybe emo is grouped with punk in that punk also shares these traits, but does it in a manner that blows you away.
http://www.angelfire.com/punk/emoisterrible/
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