Tuesday 21 September 2010

Emo punk

Emo is punk music. It is a style of rock music. And punk rock is exemplified by loud and unrelenting music with protest lyrics whose performers can be told apart by their peculiar fashion and socially defiant activities. But emo punk has evolved. Since its inception the 80s until the 90s, the term emo began to reflect the indie scene in which band members would become emotionally charged in their performances, hence the name emo. Emo punk music since then became a part of the American youth culture. But still emo punk music history cannot be fully ascertained for a reason. Because the people involved in the emo development avoid the word and the emergence of the emo itself has no specific history.

But by the late 1990s, the emo hardcore gradually averted from its line and started to integrate flash guitar and melodies filled up the used to be screaming part of the vocals. Given that, emo punk slowly but surely came into sight nationally and has become more popular than its punk-pop counterpart. As the two genus start to partly cover each other, they incorporated thus will born a new movement. That's perhaps one of the problems of emo today. Punk has ditched the music and culture it created. Although, the future of emo punk is uncertain, still its popularity and extensive subculture has been an inspiration and will continue to do in an uncertain future.

Emo punk differs from traditional punk. Emo punk stresses sensitive emotion express through forlorn and angry lyrics in high energy beats and emotionally charged chord series. The music is takes the listener in an emotional roller coaster of the heartaches and pains it is meant to echo. Traditional punk music is just loud screaming. Emo punk music is the use of the oft repeated combination of loud then soft. It is insightful of the singer's frame of mind, now angry then sad. But still and all emo punk is to punk much like steak is to a cut of beef.

Punk is not definitive but arbitrary. It is music and however it means to an individual person. It has become too wide a genus to apply it to any type of music today. Almost if not all of the bands that played with loud and fast music can be called punk although not always right. But emo punk is a genre of its own.

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