Babe, wake up, new anti-Semitic conspiracy just dropped

  • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m as white bread as they come and we were all depressed way before emo music. The 90’s were miserable and you couldn’t sing about fucking so it had to be about break ups and heroin

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      Also if you actually talked about feelings too explicitly you were called every slur for being gay possible.

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    emo music making white people depressed instead of depressed white people making emo music

    Bro put the carriage in front of the horse

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    Linkin park? Uh does he not realize that

    “Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90’s Screamo scene. What is known by “Midwest Emo” is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can’t help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE

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          Have you ever listened to Pg 99 or Cap N Jazz? If not check em out and compare thst to MCR or Sunny Day Real Estate. It is entirely different music

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            I see your point, and I don’t disagree. It’s just that the tone of that copypasta is giving me war flashbacks to early 2010s punk/metal elitism and hyper-categorization of genres which probably had nothing to do with the prevalence of neo-nazi infiltration efforts

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              The tone is bad, but I do agree we cant just call 3 very different genres the same thing. I’m willing to give Emo to Sunny Day Real Estate kinda stuff if we can stop using the term skramz and retake screamo

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      Rites of Spring are great, but the only time anyone talks about them is in reference to how x band is “fake” because RoS did it first and better. And even if that is true, and in some ways it usually is, I doubt the point of their music is to make the bands they influenced look bad.

      I know it is a copypasta, but there are like a million articles just like this one, and most that ive seen mention Rites of Spring in shitting on some other group.

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        Rites of Spring are a weird case because due to being the go to Real Emo band for people to namedrop, because at the time Fugazi and post-hardcore was semi mainstream and there is direct connection via members, so music elitists would cite them cause its the earliest and rarest example they knew of. The other side of the emo split, screamo kinda happened at the same time and was more associated with the crust and grindcore scene and they sound like it. Pitchfork wasnt recommending people listen to Heroin, they were hyped on Fugazi. I think this led to a feedback loop where a lot of later pop punk style emoji bands did take influence directly from Rites of Spring while skipping the history in between.

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    Research shows that sad music (or art of any kind) is a remedy for sadness. When I’m depressed, the last thing I want to turn on is some happy bullshit. I would rather listen to something that validates what I was feeling before I played the song.

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    frothingfash: “Not everything you brown people dislike is racist, but everything I dislike is reverse-racist!”

    CHUDs have become their own strawman of liberals, but for white people. Everything is a conspiracy or heavily veiled insult at them. Everything must be censored, and they want everything they even slightly disagree with to be destroyed. And they’re the good guys because well….they just are, ok?

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    This is like that dude who thought he cracked the code of the universe when he realized that television was “tell a vision” and therefore TV is satanic because it’s witchy

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      At a previous kitchen job we ran out of minced garlic mid rush cause we missed it on the prep list and had to do it to order until we had breathing room. I got to use the line:

      CUT GARLIC INTO PIECES

      THIS IS OUR LAST RESORT

      Another proud one was working at a large scale catering place where 4 of us had to shell like 1000 lobsters and coming up:

      Breaking shells in the kitchen

      I fought the claw and the claw won

      I needed money, I got paid next to none

      I fought the claw and the claw won

      We’re cracking crustaceans

      And it smells so bad

      I wish my day was done

      I can barely keep a roof

      Above my head

      I fought the claw and the claw won