Music Banter - Emo Class

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Originally Posted by RazorsInTheNight

You post on an internet message board so you can be ignorant about music?

Music is none of my business

or more specifically: Emo is none of my business
I don't like it so I don't need to know about it

Hating a whole genre after hearing a couple of half assed bands is really a good idea. Perhaps I should try it sometime.

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Originally Posted by A_Perfect_Sonnet

Way to recycle my own arguements back because you have no substance to yours. Did you notice on the bibliography that one of this "scholar's" sources is a book with the subtitle "The Corporate Construction of Childhood"? That should've tipped you off that the whole article was misinformed at best. And I believe you when you say this author was probably correct in what they wrote if they stick to the poor sources they cited, but it doesn't mean that any of the conclusions drawn are accurate by any means. Just because someone has a PhD in the field of "General Music" doesn't mean they know anything about it. In fact, since most of the professionals in their fields that looked over this article before it became so scholarly and journaly have little to no actual knowledge about the subject, they were willing to go along with it. Besides it's that same sheep-like attitude that causes other people to agree with it too. No one wants to be looked down at in their field of study after all; and so the chain goes on, one miseducated moron after another, until guess what? IT ENDS UP IN YOUR HANDS! So I say kudos to you Don, you sure know what's going down in today's music scene. Hopefully... some day, I will be able to follow pretentious scholarly journals down to the letter and use them in my misguided arguements against people on music forums myself.

For the third time, that was just one reference I used. I just find it funny how I know where my knowledge on the subject has come from (a vast amount of credible articles) and you just dismiss them (you even dismiss someone with a PhD! rofl), so that lead me to think, where does your knowledge come from? You seem to think you know so much about it all, so why don't you share with us where you have developed your greatness in knowledge? Here's what I think happened.

Step 1: Read or hear about someone saying what emo really is.
Step 2: Adopt this knowledge and no matter what happens, it's not wrong.
Step 3: Don't worry if someone presents you with hordes of credible references because after all, you can never be wrong remember?
Step 4: Don't forget to always say everything that conflicts with your view is wrong but don't explain why, you obviously don't need to do that.
Step 5: Assume you know everything about the person/people you are arguing with, but even if they might have a PhD, be older and smarter than you in every facet of music just continue to say they're wrong.

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Originally Posted by RazorsInTheNight

Hating a whole genre after hearing a couple of half assed bands is really a good idea. Perhaps I should try it sometime.

I know what I like and any emo band I have ever listened to isn't it.
Perhaps I should try every variety of pea soup before I can claim that I don't like it

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Originally Posted by A_Perfect_Sonnet

It's obvious you and urban have very little room in those inflated heads to learn about something for yourselves, which I guess is okay, since most of the mainstream is horribly uneducated about this anyway.

I`ve not given an opinion in this thread , i`ve asked questions.And this is the kind of response I get when I ask people to explain their answers.

I think it`s kind of sad you see that as me having an inflated head,

Does somebody want to email a link to this thread to the guy who wrote Don's reference, Brian Bailey at Rochester? I still think that the overall article was a good one, although its ridiculous that he said Emo stood for 'Emotional Music', because that is incorrect and people with certain reading styles don't really bother with an article if the opening phrases are wrong. So the first statement probably stopped lots of people from actually taking in an essay that made a lot of interesting points.

I think it would be fair to say that the interesting points were the sociological ones and not the musical ones though.

But emo can be lengthened to emocore which is short for emotional hardcore music. So what are you on about?

Hmmm, troubles a brewin' here.

Don, emotional hardcore music.
You are exactly right.
The bands around today, have little to no hardcore in them, you basically just admitted our argument.
And this "scholar" was way off the mark.
This was obvious in THE FIRST PARAGRAPH!
Not only does he completely misdefine the subject of his article, but he proceeds to name artists, and he drops the name of an alternative rapper!?
Could this guy possible be any more wrong?

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Thats fine but 2 things....

You`re using the assumption people either listen to one or the other

Both started off from the same point

I listen to both...

Yeah both started from the same from the same origins but one became so altered and transformed it no longer has any real connection to what it once was.