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Some screamo I like. It just depends on all the usual factors whether I like it or not. Melody, mood, etc. A lot of screamo is actually pretty intricate...I like hardcoreish screamo though, not metalish screamo, so that might have something to do with it.
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It sure doesn't sound like music to me... most of the time it doesn't even have a melody or any discernible lyrics. If you enjoy it, and get something out of it, that's fine. I just don't see how anyone could...
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I think that, if I could actually understand the lyrics, I might appreciate this genre a bit more. Of course, I could take the time to fine-tune my ear and to learn to understand/hear, but in all honesty, I don't want to. I can take screaming and shouting in a song, along with singing - but when all of it is screeched out at me, I'm turned off. Just a personal preference.
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My first exposure to "screamo" was with The Used and their song "A Box Full of Sharp Objects." At that point in time, genre lines were pretty blurry to me, I was into bands that were more on the "hardcore" side, without really realizing it. I agree that much of what has come about has had its roots in counterculture movements. DC hardcore and post-hardcore comes to mind with Fugazi and Dischord Records. It started with true "starving artists" and eventually hit suburbia and devolved into a popular trend, a voice of teenage rebellion. "Screamed" vocals, like beer, are definitely an acquired taste. Also, like beer, there is an incredibly wide variety of "screaming" timbres. To connoisseurs, intelligibility is not an issue. Personally, I can pick out the lyrics of just about any style, so long as the production is decent. Early death and black metal is tough, but the "pig-squeals" of contemporary "deathcore" I find to be ridiculous and useless. Screamo, I find to be tolerable, but deathcore is completely out of the picture. I saw Job for a Cowboy open for In Flames(<3) last summer. I was never so bored by a band...up until I saw Dream Theater close for Opeth, Three and BTBAM. I guess it falls into the whole "bastardized" thing. Here is a genre I have been a part of for the better part of ten years: some rebellious suburban HS kids get ahold of it and turn it into diluted, meaningless garbage.
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Its definetly a form of music with its own swagger to it but i just cant make out what they say sometimes because they're sreaming not singing. Everyone has their preferences when it comes to music & this type of music just does not sell to the majority of todays society. But i dont know if thats a good thing or a bad thing. But that doesnt make it bad music it just means that it will probably never be that mainstream like alternative,rap or R&B.
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although having said that, i do like a teeny bit of alexisonfire in the right environment
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I don't personally find this particular form of art pleasing to mine ear - it is just noise to me and it does bad things to my emotions. but it is certainly an art form.
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I don't care for any song from any genre in which I feel the vocalist is screaming at me. It makes me feel like, 'what'd I do to piss this person off?' The attribute of music I am most drawn to is lyrics. I like to be able to understand what's being said and sing along. That doesn't mean I never listen to purely instrumental music or that I don't appreciate some of Dylan's later work (the lyrics are still great, but it's harder to make out what he's saying) and it doesn't mean that "screamo" isn't music, but it's certainly not my cup of tea.
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If you can work out what they are saying, I mean like it is portions but it does bother me if the music is louder than the words or you can't work out a single word.
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I don't mind a little bit of screaming in a song; it helps convey emotion. I know a lot of people who don't like screamo music, however I like it 1000x better than those stupid R&B songs that only talk about sex. Atleast screamo has some substance to it.
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I'm wondering what kind of bands you classify as "Screamo." Because honestly, that's a term that's been used for a long time to describe a lot of different music. I've heard it used to describe late 80s/early 90s bands like Still Life and Indian Summer but also, erroneously in my opinion, to describe a band like Taking Back Sunday. Here's the problem with emo/screamo/etc. Let me begin by stating that I'm not bashing the genre(s). I'm actually a big fan of some bands that people might put into these categories, right or not (Lifetime, etc.) The issue I think primarily stems from the fact that these subgenres have real counterculture roots (in punk and hardcore movements of the late 70s and early 80s) but have completely lost any and all counterculture sensibility and have thus become a mere subculture. Now, I'm not saying that people who hate these genres recognize this specifically, but they can easily see the effects. Subcultures are detested by most because many see the members of them as trend following, shallow, etc. Look at a Hot Topic store. That is the embodiment of the commercialization of many subcultures, including the one we're talking about, and to someone who doesn't buy into that kind of fad, it makes them absolutely sick to his or her stomach to see people walk in dressed in jeans and a shirt and walk out with a studded belt and black everything. The music is inseparable from this because music and fashion are many times two sides of a sheet of paper. Not only do you have people in the main stream despising it, but you also have people who legitimately belong to a counterculture (like someone who is a true punk and lives his entire life as such) really pissed off that their lifestyle has been, in their eyes, completely bastardized. Emo/screamo is just one way a member of the punk community sees his lifestyle completely misshapen and whored out to the public. I feel like this sentiment seeps through into the general grumblings about the genre. Now, definitely not all of these types of bands are Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance or whatever. There are more bands unknown than known. But I think that this probably a good explanation of why people in general seem to hate the genre so much.
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I do enjoy some more experimental grindcore stuff though. The Number 12 Looks Like You and Heavy Heavy Low Low come to mind.
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