This sidebar was in the recent "2006 Year in Review" issue of Rolling Stone...
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Who Hates Emo Most?
Dave Draiman
(Disturbed)
"All these pussy-ass, makeup-wearing, suit wearing mama's boys...are a disgrace to rock & roll."
Maynard James Keenan
(Tool)
"The emo shit's just a backlash to rap rock. It's the same cookie-cutter crap. It's music written by frat douche bags for frat douche bags, to give roofies to unsuspecting girls before date rape ensues. 'Oh, I'm sensitive. I feel. Here, have a Roofie Coolata.'"
Austin Winkler
(Hinder)
"We were the only rock band in Oklahoma City when everything else was that artsy sceamo bullshit that nobody listens to. They're a bunch of fairies."
Brandon Flowers
(The Killers)
Called Fall Out Boy "dangerous" in the U.K. press, adding, "There's a creature inside me that wants to beat all those bands to death."
England
The crowd at the U.K.'s Reading Festival showered My Chemical Romance with debris, prompting frontman Gerard Way to announce, "Thanks for all the piss. Thanks for all the golf balls. Thanks for all the apples. Thanks for all the sticky shit." The crowd also attacked Panic! at the Disco singer Brendon Urie, knocking him out cold with a bottle.
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I am not a huge fan of 'emo' or 'screamo' music. However, I do find much of it original (despite some band-to-band similarities) and melodical. I decided to blog this because the article pissed me off. Not so much because Rolling Stone put it in their magazine (although still lame), but because it includes musicians talking shit about other musicians. Emo isn't without talent, so maybe these "rockers" should focus on platinum artists that play no instruments, and dance better than they sing. Allow me to take them on individually...
#1 - Disturbed. Emo is a disgrace to rock n' roll? In my opinion, the pay-for-play radio hard rock bands like Disturbed are the problem with 'rock n roll'. Just what IS 'rock n roll'? Disturbed? Pushing out album-after-shitty-album that all sounds like watered-down wannabe-metal hard rock? I think their facial piercings are just as sissy as a "makeup-wearing mama's boy". For space, I will leave the "Immortal Rock-Gods that wore make-up" list off this blog.
#2 - Tool. I feel Keenan's comments are a tad off-base. Maybe he is getting emo mixed up. Aren't emo artists generally against the "frat douche bag"-roofie-dropping-bullies? Maybe I have emo all wrong? (Don't think so.) Also, see Hinder at #3. Isn't Tool an "artsy" metal band? Wait. Isn't "music" an art form?
#3 - Hinder. Wow, this is a great one. Maybe Rolling Stone put this one in there as a gag? First, isn't the song Lips Of An Angel a giant "rock-n-roll" pussyfest? The song sucks out loud. Not to mention the rest of their garbage. A song called "Get Stoned"? YEAH MAN! You wear that shit on your sleeve! Nothing sells an album better to musically-challenged, super-consumer high-schoolers than a song called "Get Stoned". They have to put a 'T&A' lingerie model on the cover to sell albums. Maybe because the band is a shmorgasboard of confusing "fairy" hairstyles.
#4 - Killers. This one surprised me because I love The Killers. Aren't The Killers supposed to be a throwback to 80's bands like Joy Division and The Smiths? Either way, The Killers are awfully 'pretty' to be trashing emo bands.
#5 - My Chemical Romance and Panic! in England. This is fitting, seeing how these bands sing about the same shit that happens to them. I guess their 'underdog' lyrics are no joke. Keep throwing bottles, and they will keep writing songs.
There is something annoying about talented musicians putting down other talented musicians. (Talented as in playing instruments and keeping in tune. The basics. Not necessarily an ear for greatness.) If something sounds different, that is probably a good thing. I wouldn't want to carry on a conversation with 10 people that always say the same thing. Give me 10 people that will all say something different.
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