If you ask me, emo will not be the "next big thing." For one it's simply doesn't
have enough of it's own sound. The average kid just can not tell the difference
between The Promise Ring and Eve 6. He would say: "Why is Jimmy Eat World emo, but
Semisonic is not?" I know it sounds ridiculous, but to the average ear, there's not a
big enough difference between emo bands, and just alternative bands. Most people don't
see anything new in emo. It's ironic they've looked to ska and techno and even swing
because they are so desperate for a new sound.
Another point is: most emo has no pop culture appeal. Face it, lots of emo is
extremely depressing. The public does not want to listen to depressing music. It's
that simple. I guess some record label fucks could water it down to the point where it
DID have pop appeal, but then that bring up my first point. I mean, one of emo's
biggest traits is it's depressing sound, if they watered that down, what would really
be left to make it emo?
Those are just 2 of many reasons why I don't think emo will ever "hit it big". If
you ask me, I don't even think there's gonna be another rock revolution for a pretty
long time. Why? Simply because everybody's expecting it. Nobody was expecting rock and
roll to happen in the first place. Nobody was expecting punk rock to happen in the
late 1970's. Nobody was expecting "grunge" (a hip word for seattle's version of punk
rock) to happen in the late 1980's. Now everybody's sitting around, looking at each
other, saying: "allright, where's the next punk rock revolution....we're waiting!". I
think people will keep on sitting around waiting for it for probablly a pretty long
time, until just about everybody has given up hope alltogether. THEN, it will happen
once again. Right when nobody is expecting it. And I have NO idea what it will sound
like.
sorry about the long post.
-matt carlson
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