Just Say No!:

Maybe as kids you’ve seen the anti-drug add campaigns. Maybe you even watch TV specials with McGruff or saw the musical efforts of cartoon heroes such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Garfield on this from.

What I am talking about today is not quiet a drug, but something equally destructive: emo.

Now keep in mind that I give all music a fair chance and even appreciate some choice selection of the genre in my own way, but when the scene effects the deterioration of your gender, that is when it is a problem.

I recently attended a local battle of the bands and was disappointed that there were only three that have played... apparently the same three that were at the last BotB! All fine and good - one terrible... terrible... emo band - they had energy, but they didn’t entirely have it together, one VERY VERY good punk influenced screamo band, and one entirely too loud and nonenergetic metal band.

Straight up emo band... survived. Punk influenced scream-o band.... enjoyed, Under energetic metal band.... baffled.

Here is why....

The entire show I thought that two people who where helping move gear, etc. were girls... very young girls... the age range would have attested to that. Long hair, tight girlie pants and shirts....

BOTH GUYS.

Here is my point: Kids, say no to emo! Limit your intake of bitter, sorrowful emotionally driven music. It’s bad for the attitude and symptoms may include: graphically planning out your ex’s death, wishing for your own life to end, slit wrists, tightness of pants, blackness of hair in the eye, gender ambiguity, and playing World of Warcraft as a Paladin.

The cure?

Pure punk rock, a razor, and gender specific clothing!