I’m a Closet Emo?

I just came to the realization that I’m a closet Emo and I didn’t even know it. I was listening to Panic! At the Disco while downloading the most recent Dashboard Confessional album from eMusic and I got frustrated when I couldn’t find any My Chemical Romance albums on the site. I decided to search for more songs by The Starting Line while my iTunes playlist moved from Panic! to Fall Out Boy without skipping a beat.

My appreciation for Emo rock wasn’t really intentional. I guess I heard a few Fall Out Boy songs on some of the WB/CW shows, namely One Tree Hill, and decided to get the albums. One Tree Hill may be a lot of things but it’s not lacking for decent music. My Fall Out Boy purchases and interest led to my Panic! at the Disco fever because they’re like Fall Out part II but amusing in a completely different kind of way. After all of that Emo goodness, I caught Dan talking about My Chemical Romance. I started listening to some of their stuff and I found it to be even more melodramatic than the Fall Out Boy and Panic! stuff, but it was still amusing. My Chemical Romance led to Dashboard confessional.

I guess it was a natural progression for me since I was always a Cure fan and I liked Depeche Mode. Somewhere Robert Smith is laughing to himself when he watches these tortured Emo kids on stage. They’re trying to steal his schtick and they just don’t understand that no one will ever rock the fatalistic melancholy like The Cure. These young pups just want an excuse to wear black eyeliner and whine about failed relationships. The Cure owns them.

Tags: Fall Out Boy, Music, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco, Robert Smith, The Cure, The Starting Line

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March 9, 2007 | Filed Under Music 

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One Response to “I’m a Closet Emo?”

  1. FanGirlHater on March 10th, 2007 2:27 am

    My Chemical Romance = Good. Not emo. Just brilliance. All those other bands = mediocre. Not emo. Just fluff.

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