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Originally Posted by thickasabrick

Does anyone think that emo music, which usually expresses feelings of sadness and talks about lifes problems, is just the newer form of blues?

is that not what blues music was originally all about? all the black people singing about their problems being black and poor and other such things, eventually white people started singing the blues, although they didn't have as much to complain about. eventually the situation bettered a little for black people, slavery was gone, laws were made, so they didn't have as much reason to sing the blues.

so after a few decades, no one really needs to sing the blues, black people aren't looked down upon nearly as much, white people never had a reason for the blues...people need to find other ways to express their unhappy emotions.
suddenly Kurt Cobain started signing the blues, although not in the original true blues way, it was a new form of blues. it took rock n roll, which was a genre born out of blues, and turned it into grunge. when grunge died off, true rock music wasn't around much, there was a lot of pop music, a lot of metal but no true rock. eventually emo showed up, which had the same ideas that the old blues guys sang about, kurt cobain sang about, it was just in a new style.

so basically if you make fun of someone for "being emo", you are making fun of the blues, which is the basis for a lot of rock and roll music. and no one has the right to make fun of someone for "being rock and roll".


did that make sense to anyone cuz it kind of just happened spur of the moment.

That's pretty damn narrow minded of you, just because white people aren't a minority doesn't mean they didn't have problems. Also, emo is too vaguely related to the blues for you to say you'd hate them both if you hated one of them. That's like saying you have to like two bands just because they were inspired by the same musician. For example, Weezer and Radiohead were both inspired by Pixies. But they're completely different and not all people who like Radiohead like Weezer and vice versa. What things are based off of doesn't say jack shit. Basically most of today's music is based off of the rock if not rock in itself, and that from blues. So if what you said is true, you can't make fun of anyone for liking any music otherwise you'd be making fun of them for disliking blues.

Another thing.

Emo= The Opposite of good
Blues=Good

P.S.- Please don't fill these forums with rants about things you don't know anything about.