filed in Sticky Rambles on Apr.11, 2009
The full title of this entry is "These Wounds, They Will Not Heal: A Critical Examination of Linkin Park's 'Crawling' as an Avatar of Emo Culture" [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Grass IS emo. It cries all night, that's why there's morning dew."][/caption] In my relatively wide-ranging internet experience, Linkin Park is the band most often scorned for being emo and the one whose name is often thrown at suspected members of openly emo culture. The honor for most scorned individuals goes to Morrissey, who would probably cry if this were an awards ceremony. Tears of joy or sadness? Who can say? Your good pal and mine, Wikipedia, tells us Emo (pronounced /EEE-moe/) is a style of rock music typically characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive excessive, often confessional awful lyrics. What is interesting is that emo culture itself is expressive excessive and often confessional awful vomit-inducing as well. Popular emo....
Tags: emo, linkin park, rant