A brief note, on Musical Genre-Typing:
May. 15th, 2004 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Stupid emo music. Stupid labeled genre-partitioned music, as a whole. damn the "Music Scene" and all that it stands for, which, these days, seems to be more abotu "fitting in," even within the geeks and freaks, than Making Fucking Music! What the fuck is this, High School?! I hate genre-typing, because creative works are limited further and further, the more labels you put on it, even from the outside, but when we have kids going around and calling themselves "Indie" or "Emo" or "Goth," and only making music to fit that stereotype, and that Uniform, then we have a serious problem in creative limitation.
Yes, certain names and labels allow you to distinguish yourself, and know where you are, but that can be achieved by stating major influences, which can, and hopefully do come from many and diverse places. There are titles and genres and castes placed on everything, in this culture, from dress to music, to movies, and the people allow themselves to be stuffed into the boxes, and, in fact, help with the stuffing. Bitch, that shit ain't Stove Top, so stop swallowing it. It's all bullshit, there...
I vent my wrath at the Emo and Indie cultures, more than others, because that's where i see it the most. Oh i see it in the Goth culture, too, and the Techno culture, and Neuvo-Hippie-Freak Movement, and every other place that there's a label for who you are, and people happily slap it on, and walk around proudly proclaiming how different they are, with their fifty friends, just fucking like them!... but i see the most embracing, in the two, mentioned... More than ever, i just want to grab these children-- all of them, in any subculture-- and scream, loudly, not caring if i'm even coherent, "You're not fucking Different! Stop saying that's what you want, because it isn't! You want to belong and you want to fit in, and you know what? That's Fine, but fucking be honest with yourself about it, and have something in common with each other more than just a gods besotted Uniform!"
Because there are ideas and ideals, and things oyu can learn from people not of your huge little subculture, and as long as you search for people, based on music, or on books, or television shows, or the clothes they wear, you will always be Utterly, consumately, terminally, Alone.
If you don't believe me, go watch or read "High Fidelity." Lloyd Dobbler learns the lesson well.
Yes, certain names and labels allow you to distinguish yourself, and know where you are, but that can be achieved by stating major influences, which can, and hopefully do come from many and diverse places. There are titles and genres and castes placed on everything, in this culture, from dress to music, to movies, and the people allow themselves to be stuffed into the boxes, and, in fact, help with the stuffing. Bitch, that shit ain't Stove Top, so stop swallowing it. It's all bullshit, there...
I vent my wrath at the Emo and Indie cultures, more than others, because that's where i see it the most. Oh i see it in the Goth culture, too, and the Techno culture, and Neuvo-Hippie-Freak Movement, and every other place that there's a label for who you are, and people happily slap it on, and walk around proudly proclaiming how different they are, with their fifty friends, just fucking like them!... but i see the most embracing, in the two, mentioned... More than ever, i just want to grab these children-- all of them, in any subculture-- and scream, loudly, not caring if i'm even coherent, "You're not fucking Different! Stop saying that's what you want, because it isn't! You want to belong and you want to fit in, and you know what? That's Fine, but fucking be honest with yourself about it, and have something in common with each other more than just a gods besotted Uniform!"
Because there are ideas and ideals, and things oyu can learn from people not of your huge little subculture, and as long as you search for people, based on music, or on books, or television shows, or the clothes they wear, you will always be Utterly, consumately, terminally, Alone.
If you don't believe me, go watch or read "High Fidelity." Lloyd Dobbler learns the lesson well.
