Does anyone else here hate the word “screamo”?
Question by ~*ibεloиgtothεskiεs~*: Does anyone else here hate the word “screamo”?
I was looking at questions from other sections and all of these kids have no idea what they’re talking about. They think that anything from death core to grind core to metal core and post hardcore is all “screamo”. Half of the bands that COULD be, don’t prefer to be put into that genre. Thursday for example.
“Second wave (2002–present)
By 2002,[29] the genre name drifted into the music press, especially in the journalism of Jim DeRogatis and Andy Greenwald. “Screamo” began to describe a different, much slower and less dissonant style that borrowed from alternative rock.[30] These new bands incorporate commercial elements of rock, emo and post-hardcore.[6] As the two styles are noticeably distinct, the wide contemporary usage of the term ‘screamo’ has been controversial among some critics.[6] The Sacramento band Far[30] and the Canadian group Grade were among the first bands to practice this variety of screamo.[1] The second outcropping of groups to be given the name included Thursday and The Used.[5] Thursday also cited post-punk (Joy Division) and post-hardcore (Fugazi) as important influences, but also took cues from the alternative rock of Radiohead, U2, and The Cure.[31][32] In contrast to the DIY first-wave screamo groups, Thursday and the Used have signed multialbum contracts with labels such as Island Def Jam and Reprise Records.[33] Bert McCracken has declared that “screamo” is merely a term “for record companies to sell records and for record stores to categorize them.”[34] The groups generally prefer to be described as post-hardcore.[35]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamo
Your opinions? What does screamo mean to you?
oops. this question is a little rant-y . sorry R&P. but please answer anyways. 🙂
yeah but when you get 9000 search results from screamo, and 900 for posthardcore or any other, it’s a real slap in the face.
Best answer:
Answer by Vicky*
“The groups generally prefer to be described as post-hardcore.”
You say pot-ay-toe, I say pot-aht-oe. Meh…the genre doesn’t really bug me. There will always be those who say Nightwish isn’t symphonic metal, it’s gothic metal, or it’s industrial (yes, someone has said that)….eh. I’m not gonna bother getting annoyed over somethin so small.
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