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Originally Posted by Reznorslave
This is how I see it and how I drew the Hair Metal conclusion. Hair Metal, in some form or another had been around since the mid to late seventies and reached its peak in the mid to late eighties. That is when all these new Hair Metal bands started coming out and they started sounding the same and everyone was listening to them. Shortly thereafter, it died out and went away. I think that Emo is in much the same shape. It is growing in popularity and every time you turn around there is a new Emo band that sounds the same as the one that came out last week. It is oversaturated right now and the quality will suffer because of it, eventually causing the genre to die out and become less relevant/important.
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I understand the point you're making and I see how you would make that point, but it doesn't make sense at the same time.
Emo music as it is called now is really 2 seperate entities. On one hand there is the radio friendly emo. Taking Back Sunday, Hawthorne Heights, etc. This I agree and hope will die out soon.
Emo music that I am defending is very non-mainstream. Almost to a fault. It's usually very unaccessible. Un-marketable, and you have to be a true fan to appreciate it.
You've listened to radio emo and written it off. You probably won't like real emo either. But sometimes, when you just don't know what you're talking about, you should simply not talk.
"Better to not talk and have everyone assume you're stupid, than to open you're mouth and prove it"
-Abe Lincoln (more or less the wording)