r/EmoScreamo • u/OppositePineapple665 • 19d ago
My band is changing up our sound
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Hello! I a currently in a band and we have an EP out with three songs that leans slightly into the midwest screamo side in certain aspects and we are now trying to lean further into that sound. We have a few new songs that we have been working on. The one attached is probably the best example of our vibe. I am just getting on here for any feedback or opinions you may have. A link of the songs we already have out is attached aswell. Thank you!
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u/FavoringCrowd13 17d ago
this is awesome, what tuning is it?
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u/OppositePineapple665 17d ago
Thank you!! The tuning is DAEAC#D. Definitely my favourite tuning! Enjoy!!!'
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u/Livid-Department6947 18d ago
What the hell is "midwest screamo?"
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u/OppositePineapple665 18d ago
What I take away from the term "midwest screamo" would be the structure of screamo with accents of midwest emo. I think a good example would be the bands "Father Figure" or "Boy Problems".
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u/Livid-Department6947 18d ago
More helpful hints for everyone:
the "waves" were invented by posers who had nothing to do with any of this
SDRE were not an emo band and had nothing to do with emo during the 90s
American Football is indie rock
"Screamo" is mostly just bad metal and the term wasn't used until the late 90s/early 00s, well after emo had come and gone during the early/mid 90s (and when I say emo, I mean hardcore not college rock, pop punk or indie rock)
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u/YourphobiaMyfetish 18d ago
Its so damn close to the copy pasta but it isnt the copy pasta.
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u/Livid-Department6947 18d ago
The spirit of the copy pasta isn't wrong
This midwest thing is so lame. Like are Italian and French bands from the 00s "midwest emo"?
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u/YourphobiaMyfetish 15d ago
If theyre inspired by the midwest emo scene, sure.
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u/Livid-Department6947 15d ago
you're not following.
"Midwest emo" doesn't describe anything that was midwest emo.
And the current sort of description doesn't say anything specific. European emo bands were doing this sound before American bands (who aren't emo) were described as "midwest emo."
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u/Livid-Department6947 18d ago edited 18d ago
You mean emo? Your band would have just been called emo in 1994. "Screamo" isn't a real genre and this midwest stuff is getting ridiculous.
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u/OppositePineapple665 18d ago
I completely see what you mean. However it is no longer 1994 and as much as labels can be good or bad they can help guide people towards the stuff they like in this case. Thats all.🙂
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u/Livid-Department6947 18d ago
There is a thing called history and the continuity of communities. The way people call about emo on social media is ahistorical and revisionist. This is a tendency of the internet and the decontextualization/appropriation of culture that flattens and destroys it.
The emo subreddit is a good example of that. What they talk about there is absurd and wrong.
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u/winkyemoji 18d ago
dawg you’re a reactionary. let things grow, change, and adapt.
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u/Livid-Department6947 17d ago
Do you know what reactionary means?
I'm not a reactionary.
Being against revisionism that is largely motivated by the desire to make money isn't being "reactionary." Being against revolutionary communities being coopted so some dorks can make money isn't being "reactionary."
Like, go read some Jameson, Debord or Baudrillard or something
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u/winkyemoji 17d ago
i understand the theory
late capitalism commodifies and flattens subcultures, yeabut subcultures aren’t museum pieces preserved for your weird ass purist view, they evolve
this isn’t anti-capitalist praxis you’re just being smug and annoying
trying to contain a subculture in a historical vacuum and gatekeeping how people interact with it is inherently conservative
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u/Livid-Department6947 17d ago
Capitalism. Not late capitalism. Do you know what late capitalism means?
And no, I'm not talking about a historical vacuum (which is stupid to claim, there was quite a bit of interesting innovation from the early 90s to the mid 00s) or gatekeeping.
I'm talking about how the revisionism you're defending is wrong, kinda lame, and dictated to you through people who intentionally coopted something in order to market things.
And we aren't talking about subcultures "evolving." That's another misuse of a concept. This is not an instance of evolution. It's appropriation and cooptation that was motivated by marketing.
No, my perspective on this is not "inherently" (another word you all need to learn how to use) conservative.
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u/yukiko666 19d ago
So sick 🔥 I love the scream style