Emo? I don't think so!

Jan 28, 2007

4:27 AM

I didn't feel like taking The Screaming Blue Bitch (my semi) out to the bars tonight so I stayed in, took care of business, wrote the sermon, and watched the "One Hit Wonders" thing on VH1. Once that show was over, VH1 did something that I didn't expect. They played videos on an apparent show called Nocturnal States.

I think the songs were all in that touchy, feely Emo genre. Even the new U2 song that they played fell into this... category. Everybody looks grungy and is wearing his, or her, emotions on their sleeve--or the piece of fabric closest to their bicep tattoo. It all seemed unwashed and overly sensitive. Also, there was an extreme absence of anything resembling a backbeat. It was piano laden and made me feel... well it made me feel. So I didn't necessarily like it, because it made me feel, but it didn't make me feel like shaking my ass. I might as well have been listening to Montovanni or The Hollywood Strings. It was real... elevator music like.

Okay. Now they're playing that Fergilicious song. I got not clue what it's about, but my ass is shaking, and my eyes are amused. Still, it's a sorry state of affairs when the most stimulating thing going on is... an over produced, mindless dance song.

Let's face it. Everything else is hopelessly recycled. What is there? The next Black Sabbath? The next Iggy and the Stooges? The next Simon and Garfunkel? It's like pop music is a 50 year-old puppy that keeps chasing it's tail and going round and round over the same spot on the carpet. What's it going to take? New instruments? New drugs? An invasion by aliens to jar the turntable because the needle is stuck in a scratch marred groove, and everything keeps repeating itself?

Where's the next Devo, or something? For crissakes!

See that? There is a value to mortality. Jaded, disaffected old turds like me just need to up and die.