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Statement: Emo has been declared the new grunge.
At the dawn of the 90s, the dominant styles of pop music were hair metal (Winger, Warrant, Whitesnake) and teen pop (New Kids On The Block, Michael Jackson). These 'artists' were handily shown the door by the first generation of former Sub Pop bands, who brought with them a sound, look, and style that rendered the flaccid, pastel pop stylings of these former chart-toppers null and void.
Here we are at the dawn of a whole new decade, and again, the charts are dominated by nü-metal bands (Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Staind) and teen pop (you know who I'm talking about). Slowly but surely, various 'emo' bands have been wiggling their way onto the radios of the kiddies. Like the Seattle bands of yore, many of these bands have spent a lot of time on the indie circuit, and have spent enough time cramped in vans and sleeping on floors to want to make the jump to a more lucrative performing situation. (One thing though - in my opinion, I don't know that any of the current up-and-coming bands carry the same weight and/or cultural impot as the "grunge"-era bands did. But I'm old now. What do i know. When I was 16, I wasn't asking the musical opinion of people my age now.)
Likely, the quality groups will be snatched up, and a few will make a lasting impression. Then the second wave will begin, where every cut-rate band from here to eternity will don highwater pants and too-small sweaters (there's already plenty of them). They will move en masse to whatever midwestern town has been declared the new music mecca, and the labels will send flocks of A&R men to snatch them up and put them through the coroprate wringer. In the meantime, the post-emo underground will have already begun.
I'm thinking of a song Shirley Bassey sang once...
At the dawn of the 90s, the dominant styles of pop music were hair metal (Winger, Warrant, Whitesnake) and teen pop (New Kids On The Block, Michael Jackson). These 'artists' were handily shown the door by the first generation of former Sub Pop bands, who brought with them a sound, look, and style that rendered the flaccid, pastel pop stylings of these former chart-toppers null and void.
Here we are at the dawn of a whole new decade, and again, the charts are dominated by nü-metal bands (Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Staind) and teen pop (you know who I'm talking about). Slowly but surely, various 'emo' bands have been wiggling their way onto the radios of the kiddies. Like the Seattle bands of yore, many of these bands have spent a lot of time on the indie circuit, and have spent enough time cramped in vans and sleeping on floors to want to make the jump to a more lucrative performing situation. (One thing though - in my opinion, I don't know that any of the current up-and-coming bands carry the same weight and/or cultural impot as the "grunge"-era bands did. But I'm old now. What do i know. When I was 16, I wasn't asking the musical opinion of people my age now.)
Likely, the quality groups will be snatched up, and a few will make a lasting impression. Then the second wave will begin, where every cut-rate band from here to eternity will don highwater pants and too-small sweaters (there's already plenty of them). They will move en masse to whatever midwestern town has been declared the new music mecca, and the labels will send flocks of A&R men to snatch them up and put them through the coroprate wringer. In the meantime, the post-emo underground will have already begun.
I'm thinking of a song Shirley Bassey sang once...
