That's part of the point. When you get all the way through the progressively worse and worse crap, you finally get emo: The stuff that comes out at the end, after you've gone through all the rest of the system.
Ahhh, I see now. But nobody listens to emo music. There's like 5 bands in total in the entire emo movement and none of them have sold more than 100 copies or their CDs... to all their friends.
They're not real friends. They just hang out with the emos because it makes them look gleeful and happy in comparison and they pick up more chicks that way. It's a win-lose situation!
I question your definition of "alternative," as there's been nothing non-mainstream given that label in at least ten years.
What definition of "emo" are you operating under? It's not been used to describe an offshoot of hardcore in a long time. Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, et al. are all what is held up as emo these days. Whether that is a correct thing to do is a somewhat different discussion.
But then, this all comes down to endless, frequently-circular debate over definitions of that slippery thing, genre.
Jimmy Eat World is emo? I like them. I thought they were pretty good. I don't think ALL of their stuff is emo, is it?? Panic at the Disco, I like them too, but god help them in concert, they are absolutely horrible. But uh, I like the digitally altered Panic, it's catchy and makes me wanna sing =P
Don't look at me. As I said, the ones listed are, correctly or no, the ones I've seen most frequently stuck with the label.
The funniest part about any of this is that any band labeled emo strongly objects to being labeled that way. The term is also frequently abused to pigeonhole and/or belittle bands for any number of reasons.
No one likes the term, no one wants to be seen as fitting under the term, but it persists because it's a useful rhetorical weapon or something.
lol, everytime i hear the cure, i feel like it isn't the same band. everytime i hear a song by them, it seems to be in a different genre of music. it confuses the hell out of me...
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Date: 2007-01-18 04:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-01-18 04:19 pm (UTC)But nobody listens to emo music. There's like 5 bands in total in the entire emo movement and none of them have sold more than 100 copies or their CDs... to all their friends.
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Date: 2007-01-18 06:18 pm (UTC)It's a win-lose situation!
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Date: 2007-01-18 07:10 pm (UTC)Dashboard Confessional has also sold more than 100 CDs (unfortunately).
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Date: 2007-01-18 07:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-18 08:11 pm (UTC)What definition of "emo" are you operating under? It's not been used to describe an offshoot of hardcore in a long time. Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, et al. are all what is held up as emo these days. Whether that is a correct thing to do is a somewhat different discussion.
But then, this all comes down to endless, frequently-circular debate over definitions of that slippery thing, genre.
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Date: 2007-01-19 02:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-19 03:04 am (UTC)The funniest part about any of this is that any band labeled emo strongly objects to being labeled that way. The term is also frequently abused to pigeonhole and/or belittle bands for any number of reasons.
No one likes the term, no one wants to be seen as fitting under the term, but it persists because it's a useful rhetorical weapon or something.
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Date: 2007-01-18 06:40 pm (UTC)not to mention that everything below the esophogus is worse than emo, no matter what they mean when they say it.
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