I must be getting old because I don’t get a lot of the emo music that’s out now. I heard a song last weekend with this line– I even regret my regret. That made me roll my eyes, but it’s still not as bad as the most emo lyrics I’ve ever heard:
The truth is you could slit my throat
And with my one last gasping breath
I’d apologize for bleeding on your shirt“Your So Last Summer” by Taking Back Sunday
What the hell is up with that?
“I don’t think I’ve got the stomach to stomach calling you today.”
Michelle, they only slit their own throats so that they can feel something.
That is why I listen to all my music really, really loud. That way I don’t have to think about all the silly words to my favorite songs. I can just make up my own silly words if I need to sing along.
Ugh, no wonder I never understood emo. When I want depressing, I go with the Blues. At least that’s all about sex and booze and heartache, THAT shit I can relate to.
Emo, the original, was better back in the day with lines such as:
I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they’re real…
That is the original emo king. Though I am sure he would kick someone’s ass if they called him that but considering the definition ‘emo’ is emotional music…well The Cure has this category ruled.
Sometimes I really do get tired of always being right, about everything. I was hating emo ten years ago when Weezer first put out that Buddy Holly bullshit, before that kind of hate became cool. It may have seemed irrational at the time, but Matty knew. Oh yes, he knew.
Nuke, I’m with you on the blues.
Matty, you are so right… most of us were blind and couldn’t see where Weezer was leading us
omg, I’m into emo and I didn’t know it – I’ve got Taking Back Sunday’s ‘Make Damn Sure’ on my MySpace profile. Not because it was introduced to me by my youngest son and I wanted to connect with him. Not because I wanted to rifle through the Taking Back Sunday CDs in the local store while the cute girl on checkout was watching (she’s always playing them). Not because I’m feeling a mid-life crisis approach and I want to keep it at bay with baby music. No, it’s there because I think it rocks. If this is emo then I am now emocol. Hand me that tissue – I’m getting emo-tional.