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Cheer up, emo kid!
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How the Hell is Ben Folds Emo? The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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Have you heard his music? | |
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Actually he's right. A guy who covers "Bitches Ain't Shit" and rountinely sings songs like "Rock This Bitch" during his concerts, isn't exactly an emo act, even if he did do one or two sad songs.
*looks at you* You be simple-minded.
*points, laughs and skips away merrily* "I don't think you'd do well in captivity." - random person's comment to me the other day | |
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I have pretty much everything that BBF and BF has put out and beside a couple of sad songs, typical of all artist, he is by no way emo.
Brick, a song bout abortion and its affect on a couple, while depressing doesn't really go with the self depressing emo style. The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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To each their own, of course! I would certainly consider Ben Folds and Ben Folds Five to be emo college music. Not to bring it to too fine a point, but Ben Folds charts on the same charts that emo bands like Promise Ring and Jets To Brazil do.
Would Jimmy Eat World be considered emo? Perhaps, for some, but not for others. They do have many songs that aren't necessarily Joy Division or The Cure type of emo, but as far as the indie/emo/whinecore music that began in/around 1994-1995 and managed to get a bit of real chart success on the rock charts in the beginning of the 2000s? Ya. For sure. | |
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please.
N dont make me pull out the William Shatner. [Edited 8/14/11 0:44am] The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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I don't see how any of that disproves what I actually said though. lol.
Why the shame? It's a genre and he fits into it. That does not mean the scope of his collection exists in that genre. Would you call Prince an R&B artist? Of course. Are all his records that way? Naturally, no. | |
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