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I was going through some of my old posts, and I noticed, alot of people flammed me for an opinion, just because a band is more famous then me, doesn't make them any better. As some of you seem to beleive.
Now one of the key arguments I've heard is, 'what have you done, you can insult the band when your as succesful as they are' this was said against me for saying that Lost Prophets, were in fact, just following every major trend and making music that lacks substance, quality and above all talent. Now then, I haven't done anything to compare to their millions of record sales, but then again, I haven't sold my soul to make m usic for the masses that has no meaning to me unlike the Lost Prophets, who were pretty quick to jump from a hard rock band with great potential to an emo band singing about roof tops in pants that frankly look as if a child should wear them with hair no one over the age of 20 should rightly have.
The same thing also happened, when I gave my opinions on Gerard Way, not so much the band, but just him personally (having actually met him). I thought he was an arrogant fool, that needed to understand his actual impact in the musical world, was akin to a leaf falling in the ocean. Yet people who have never met him, jumped to his defence, claiming him to be a good person, yet without meeting him, how can this opinion be formed. Now one of the moderaters (roffleface) jumped to my defence here, and both sides split relatively amicably.
It may have become intensely apparent I am what one would term a fan of Emo the music genre (as in emotive hardcore) as opposed to the whole emo life style. This of course, to some members of the forum, means I can't make jokes about the fashion of emo's. Some people took offence at these, and deemed me trailer trash, causing a simple joke to turen into a marathon of flames, fortuneatly however I am too cool headed to allow such things to take my mind and was able to stay calm and render their arguments moot. But the fact reamins, I shouldn't have had too. The jokes should be talken, not as insults but as something to laugh at, and make you thin, 'well if someone who actually likes the people makes jokes about this, what does the rest of the world think?'. Because as far as the world is concerned, the stereotypes, are true. Wether you like it or not.
Finnaly, emo has been around for at least a decade now, in one form or another, yet in that time, its barely changed, might I suggest you all broaden your horizons, so as to help the genre grow and evolve instead of stagnating like it is doing, I have tried on many occasions to get your music tastes broadened, and always I seem to fail, so this is a plea, for the survival of the music you love so much, look for other music to help fuse into emo and encourage it to grow, evolve and change. Look at how many sub-genres of metal there are, and eternally ever more are growing, this is how it should be with emo, its the branch that has fallen off of that tree to become its own, now please nurture it by mixing it with other things, how about emo with jazz twinges? or emo reggae? why not? if you want your music to survive, this is the way, we must start now to help it grow into something better then it is.
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