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So I wrote this whole thing, then hit a wrong button, and lost it.
I was bored so I started to read post from groups and on different bulletin boards, and came to a conclusion. It is all Elvis' fault. I always find some way to blame those not involved and this is the perfect example. This was all birthed due to listening to a bunch of kids calling each other goth fags and emo bitches, and when I told one of my friends about this, she responded with "without goth emo would never have existed," any way that got me thinking about how all music genres wee born out of or in response to another. Let me explain:
Elvis rocked the world when he gave up gospel and country to be a Rock and Roll-er. In doing this he won some love and some hate from the black community. That particular community was generally left to their own devices but all of a sudden Elvis was acquiring black fans and the ones who didn't like him became the founders of rap music. Which grew on its own as an independent world until the late 90's. Any way once Elvis became a rocker the music world was turned upside down. He changed the face and the ideas of music at that time. The path was set until the mid 60's when psychedelics and the British invasion began. In came a new sound, and meshed with what Elvis had started. This fueled the drug laced 60's and early 70's. When those folks started to sober up a little the long haired classic rock of the 70's was born. Those that didn't sober up became the disco era, and just switched to harder drugs. In the 70's you had the disco and the rock which when they had a torrid love affair two children were born glam rock and hair bands. Both these groups were responses to the two factions of the 70's. The 80's then remained mostly unremarkable in the music world until New Wave was born as an incestuous child of glam and hair. What a mistake. And then there was this group of angry kids who birthed the most important movement in music: true punk rock. They were innovators, they used the same instruments as everyone else but made a real difference. No one could define punk, it just was. Out of this came some people who really couldn't figure out what punk was so they decided to get mad and cry about it. This was the early or pre-goth movement. So while punk music was growing and morphing and taking on a life of it's own, rap and r&b reentered the picture, and began taking over the airwaves, and when kids didn't like the old hair bands or the new rappers, grunge garage rock was born, which mutated into a giant behemoth which was not what they intended (this led to the coining of the phrase sellout). Also about this time smart Americans were trying to squelch the inevitability of pop music and the crap that comes with it. Grunge died with Kurt Cobain, even though there were many other bands (most better in my opinion) still trying to be able to be called sellouts. Then in the late 90's the fusion era began, with rap/ rock, punk/ pop, and other mindless conglomerations of artists that should have stayed home and slit their wrist. Also at this time goth had grown itself into a true monster, with black lipstick in every suburban teenagers bathroom (thanks Marylin Manson!) So one day the rap/ rock kids locked the punk/pop kids and the goth kids in the bathroom and during their extended stay became friends. And *POOF* the bullshit was born. From that ill conceived orgy was born hardcore, emo, and all these other sub-genres that have been influenced mistakenly by the kitchen sink and the media. What all this basically boils down to is why can't we all get along. We have the same ancestor, and were all born in the same inbred family lines, and without any one of the others none of us would exist. Except for the scene whores who chameleon into whatever is cool at the time after a group of other individuals decide what is cool now. That I hate, but other wise, share a coke with that boy wearing eyeliner, or that bald girl sitting next to you. Smile and just be thankful we are all different.
I was bored so I started to read post from groups and on different bulletin boards, and came to a conclusion. It is all Elvis' fault. I always find some way to blame those not involved and this is the perfect example. This was all birthed due to listening to a bunch of kids calling each other goth fags and emo bitches, and when I told one of my friends about this, she responded with "without goth emo would never have existed," any way that got me thinking about how all music genres wee born out of or in response to another. Let me explain:
Elvis rocked the world when he gave up gospel and country to be a Rock and Roll-er. In doing this he won some love and some hate from the black community. That particular community was generally left to their own devices but all of a sudden Elvis was acquiring black fans and the ones who didn't like him became the founders of rap music. Which grew on its own as an independent world until the late 90's. Any way once Elvis became a rocker the music world was turned upside down. He changed the face and the ideas of music at that time. The path was set until the mid 60's when psychedelics and the British invasion began. In came a new sound, and meshed with what Elvis had started. This fueled the drug laced 60's and early 70's. When those folks started to sober up a little the long haired classic rock of the 70's was born. Those that didn't sober up became the disco era, and just switched to harder drugs. In the 70's you had the disco and the rock which when they had a torrid love affair two children were born glam rock and hair bands. Both these groups were responses to the two factions of the 70's. The 80's then remained mostly unremarkable in the music world until New Wave was born as an incestuous child of glam and hair. What a mistake. And then there was this group of angry kids who birthed the most important movement in music: true punk rock. They were innovators, they used the same instruments as everyone else but made a real difference. No one could define punk, it just was. Out of this came some people who really couldn't figure out what punk was so they decided to get mad and cry about it. This was the early or pre-goth movement. So while punk music was growing and morphing and taking on a life of it's own, rap and r&b reentered the picture, and began taking over the airwaves, and when kids didn't like the old hair bands or the new rappers, grunge garage rock was born, which mutated into a giant behemoth which was not what they intended (this led to the coining of the phrase sellout). Also about this time smart Americans were trying to squelch the inevitability of pop music and the crap that comes with it. Grunge died with Kurt Cobain, even though there were many other bands (most better in my opinion) still trying to be able to be called sellouts. Then in the late 90's the fusion era began, with rap/ rock, punk/ pop, and other mindless conglomerations of artists that should have stayed home and slit their wrist. Also at this time goth had grown itself into a true monster, with black lipstick in every suburban teenagers bathroom (thanks Marylin Manson!) So one day the rap/ rock kids locked the punk/pop kids and the goth kids in the bathroom and during their extended stay became friends. And *POOF* the bullshit was born. From that ill conceived orgy was born hardcore, emo, and all these other sub-genres that have been influenced mistakenly by the kitchen sink and the media. What all this basically boils down to is why can't we all get along. We have the same ancestor, and were all born in the same inbred family lines, and without any one of the others none of us would exist. Except for the scene whores who chameleon into whatever is cool at the time after a group of other individuals decide what is cool now. That I hate, but other wise, share a coke with that boy wearing eyeliner, or that bald girl sitting next to you. Smile and just be thankful we are all different.
 | Currently listening: Automatic for the People By Rem Release date: 06 October, 1992 |
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