Emo Music
Emo music is sub music ground of hard-care punk. Some people, however, think emo music does not exist. They fill that people just give it that name, when it's truly punk.More about Emo Music
Emo music is something
that is rather ambiguously defined. It can be something that has heavy
punk chords and influence such as what we've heard from the Sex Pistols,
but it can also be something with soft melodic characteristics like
what we've heard from the Cure. This is why emo is such a hard concept
to define. It is an expression of emotion in some way.
Emotions can vary from angry to sad to
happy, and emo music is an expression of those experiences as well as
their range.
When it comes to the emo music scene, there are many bands that
may claim to be the founders of the cultural movement. However, you
would have to look across the pond to gloomy England to find the real
Kings of emo music. The Cure have been going strong now for over 20
years, writing songs that could make any 16 year old boy break into
tears, even the football players. Their catchy guitar riffs and honest,
emotional vocals have been mimicked by almost every emo artist to date.
Another band from across the pond that has definitely influenced
the emo music scene is Depeche Mode. They might be a primarily
electronic band, but their moody lyrics and loner style has crept into
every facet of the emo scene.
In recent years emo music has even moved
away from the punk sound and many bands are starting to adopt more
electronic elements to their sound. Death Cab for Cutie is a perfect
example, whose lead singer Ben Gibbard also fronts the entirely
electronic project the Postal Service. Emo Music is becoming very popular among teens.
Emo music got its roots from punk rock
and the infusion of indie rock. The genre developed in the early 1980’s
arguably from such influences as the Cure and Sunny Day Real Estate. In the 1990’s one example of Emo bands would be Fugazi or Texas Is the Reason.
Texas Is the Reason is a more indie version of Emo while Fugazi is
certainly punk. While a band like Modest Mouse might easily be mistaken
for an Emo band because they are punk influenced, highly emotional,
and extremely fashionable, they are not Emo. The reason is that their
lyrics are more metaphors than straight forwardly emotional lyrics.
Lyrics that talk about crying in despair after a death in the family are Emo. The second lyrics do not leave the listener to wonder what is being expressed. The desert could be a reference to drying out from alcohol abuse or it could be a metaphor for death or bareness. Because there are different styles of Emo music such as emocore and screamo, what is Emo music is an ambiguous definition.
Loosely defined, Emo music is music
that is highly emotional and very straightforward in the expression of
that emotion. However, Emo music could be as potent and raging as
something like what we hear from Suicidal Tendencies.
The screaming anger and aggression that comes from Suicidal Tendencies
is emotional just like Cat Power, but the delivery is much different.
The important overarching theme here is in potent Emotions. Some of the
contributions to the Emo scene in the last ten years have come from
such artists as: Further Seems Forever, the Promise Ring, Benton Falls, or Army of Ponch.
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