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Simple Plan - Formulaic Shit

This is an example of how emo `rock` music is just formulaic shit. If you synchronize Simple Plan`s latest atrocity, your love is a lie, with Green Day`s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, they sound remarkably similar.

  • JamesM
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  • Date 5/4/2008 8:56:13 AM
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cheerio : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

cheerio

13 votes NegativePositive

206 days 1 hour ago...

I don`t see how you can claim the songs are synched... Green Day`s song has obviously been edited and I wouldn`t be surprised if Simple Plans was either. Not that im defending emo rock, i just don`t see how you claim its formulatic shit if you tamper with the songs themselves.

Tajumera : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Tajumera

2 votes NegativePositive

205 days 23 hours ago...

They both gobble cock.

Aids_Sauce : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

Aids_Sauce

41 votes NegativePositive

205 days 21 hours ago...

Hearing an Emo song in my left ear.. followed by a second even more emo song in my right ear actually made me die a little inside..

Nictron7 : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Nictron7

11 votes NegativePositive

205 days 20 hours ago...

^^I agree,

JamesM : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

JamesM

-2 votes NegativePositive

205 days 19 hours ago...

cheerio, i cut up the green day song because the structures of both songs weren`t similar enough to make my point. What was very similar was the chord progressions, melodies, rhythems and vocal styles. 4/5 is more than enough in my mind.

Chuckus : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Chuckus

7 votes NegativePositive

205 days 18 hours ago...

Well that`s been done since the blues. Yeh it`s kind of lame but what can you do. People like comforting stuff and so they like their songs to sound the same. Not much we can do about that. This is a problem for all mainstream music, not just Emo. Rap I`d say is a pretty close second for worst offender.

(A fan of rap but even I can admit it`s horrendously repetitive)

duckmanx : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

duckmanx

1 votes NegativePositive

205 days 16 hours ago...

I immediately thought of Green Day - Blvd of broken dreams when I first heard this simple plan song for some reason as well. I thought it sounded good mixed together.

Ibanez619 : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

Ibanez619

6 votes NegativePositive

205 days 15 hours ago...

I sure do miss the old Green Day. Pretty sad that they change everything about them. They should just stick with when they came out besides turning to emo.

ChrissyChiChi : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

ChrissyChiChi

3 votes NegativePositive

205 days 12 hours ago...

Wonderwall and a bunch of other songs sync up with it too, its a common chord progression that a lot of bands with little creativity fall back on...

Capitaine Quebec : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Capitaine Quebec

5 votes NegativePositive

205 days 12 hours ago...

Welcome to the mainstream. Music is a product. Just like different mp3 players do the same thing : play mp3. Music industry is the same : They sell you the same sound under a different cover.

Tada : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Tada

6 votes NegativePositive

203 days 22 hours ago...

Green Day ripped that song from Oasis anyways so who cares...

paper : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

paper

2 votes NegativePositive

200 days 10 hours ago...

Play two songs together with the same tempo and key, and see what happens.

Pancakes : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

Pancakes

5 votes NegativePositive

199 days 17 hours ago...

listen to led zeppelin
you wont have this problem...

KuRRopT : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

KuRRopT

3 votes NegativePositive

199 days 17 hours ago...

I`ve seen better synched

saltesc : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

saltesc

5 votes NegativePositive

199 days 16 hours ago...

Neither of them are emo lol. They`re just really shit pop songs (think Brittney with a different look and a guitar).

When you hear true emo... you`ll know. Music that makes you crack every tooth you grind, cramp your entire spine as you tense and cringe, overdrive your brain as you suddenly hate every middle-classed white kid that thinks they have life hard despite being in the top 13% of global quality living.... that`s when you`ll know you`ve heard emo.

It`s not about the whiney voices, the drag-on beat, the black clothes and the make up for fashion shoots... these songs are just an appetiser. It`s all about whinging about pretty much fucking everything normal in life that normal people have to deal with.

God I`m just starting... I have to shutup before a rant comes on. Remember saltesc, it`s just the internet. Your words mean nothing here...

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