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Originally posted by DJ FC:
You are 100% correct to say that I dont have a deep understanding of this music, but I have tried. I've been forced to listen to this music in friends cars, and have even voluntarily induced the listening to give it a shot. Maybe you are more a savy listener than these other kids, this could be our misunderstanding. Because if you claim to like "Dashboard Confessional," but hate the lyrics I typed... well that's hipocracy. I've listened to this trash, and indeed an antire CD is nothing but this lonely-teenager-romantic-fallen-angel-emotion. It can be a complex emotion, yes, but this is the only emotion... or at least the predominant emotion that Dashboard Confessional abuses. Please let me know if this is our disagreement, do you think that DC is good? Or is it the kids who listen to this music who give the genre a bad name?
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to begin, yes, i used to like dashboard confessional. and no, i didn't stop liking him because he "sold out", i stopped liking him because he changed his music style and it was a turn for the worse. the lyrics you posted were so incredibly vague and blatant that any dumbass would think they were bad. as i already said, yes, emo lyrics focus on one emotion quite a bit, but the lyrics of good emo bands are almost always more well thought out than what you posted.
the reason that emo focuses so much on the emotions of sadness/loneliness/heartbreak is because that's what the fucking scene was started for. in the early days of emo, not much "underground" melodic, emotional music existed. the scene was dominated by punk bands like minor threat who were all about tearing shit up, causing riots, etc. emo was an outlet for all those kids who didn't exactly feel that punk was the right message and/or genre to be into. hence why it still is centered around emotions, because that's what the music style was created for in the first place.
and yes, for the most part it is the kids who give it a bad name. most bands nowadays don't claim to be emo because of how much of a joke it has become. and yes, also, there are a slew of new bands that have been coming out over the past few years because of a boom in "underground" music among the general public. it has become a tainted scene. instead of having people who are die-hard emo or hardcore fans, you have a bunch of fuckers who like the fashion and decide to make a band. that's why there are so many groups out there that are just trying way too fucking hard to be what they can't understand.