Emo Screamo generally refers to bands that play emotional punk rock music where screaming vocals are largely incorporated into the tracks, check out the following videos to get a feel of it.
Only One - Yellowcard
I'm not Okay - My Chemical Romance
Emo Nemo on the other hand points to bands that play excessively emotional rock ballads, or rock songs in general. See below.
Creep - Radiohead
Storm - Lifehouse
Lets discuss some similarities they share.
Dress Sense
Notice the consistent black theme? The color black signifies sadness and melancholy. Black/dark settings or black/dark clothing gives the musicians an emotional, sad look.
Lyrical Similarities
All the the above examples share lyrical similarities in the sense that they all describe emotional and sad events, maybe a past relationship gone wrong, missing or yearning for a significant other, total dissatisfaction with oneself, or remorsefulness for a supposedly "unforgivable" mistake made.
"Here I go, scream my lungs out so I can get to you, cos you're my only one...." - Yellowcard
"I'm a creep, I'm a wierdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here...." - Radiohead
"And I... could walk on water, and you... will catch me if I fall. And I could get lost into your eyes, end everything will be alright..." - Lifehouse
"I'm not okay!! I'm not okay!! I'm not okay!! You wear me out..." - My Chemical Romance
So what's the difference?
Simple. The delivery and end result. Emo Screamo is of course, screamy, whiney and shrieky. Emo Nemo is more quiet, lonely and haunting. And the end result?
Emo Screamo - Lots of dramatic crying and writhing in invisible pain, destruction of one's belongings or environment, eventually ending in slit wrists.
Emo Nemo - Exit the dramatic crying, cut out the writhing and flailing, leave the belongings and environment intact, proceed straight to slit wrists.
6 comments:
I hate MCR!!! They should just all go and slit their wrists!!! Their songs are so damn emo man!!!
This the first time i hear someone classifying Radiohead as emo :)
Honestly, I never truly believe they were emo either. I personally really enjoy their music, but I haven't met a person irl who says they arent emo. You'd be the first adam!
Radiohead and lifehouse emo meh ?
You know how you tell if a song is emo? Not necessarily by listening to it. Just google the lyrics and read it, if it sounds emo in plain english, it probably is.
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