rhizhim said:
Keoul said:
"Rapping is hip and cool"
IT'S JUST ANGRY POETRY TO ME >:c
i got the right shirt for you then
You wanna sit there and say that rap is not real music? Let's talk about "screamo". Or as I like to call it, "Let's yell at the top of our lungs with a microphone crammed in our mouths so no one has the faintest idea what we're saying".
Listen to this between the 3:33 to the 3:43 mark.
Sounds pretty cool in a brief 10 second snippet, don't it? Gives the song that dark edge it needs. Now imagine that part looped into a five minute song? After 30 seconds, I'd wanna take a power drill to my eardrums.
Don't believe me? Let's do a side by side comparison with two completely different versions of one song. Here's the song "Still Fly" originally done by Big Tymers:
Now you can sit there and complain all you want about how you have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. "'Hood rich'? What exactly does that mean? Is that better or worse than the regular type of rich?" "What exactly is a 'stunna'? And why is it good to be the number one of that?" "A 'Superman Benz'? Who would want to drive around in a Benz with a giant Superman logo on it? And what does a shack have to do with anything? Huh? Shaq? Shaquille O'neal? Does she work for DC Comics? Oh,
he's a professional basketball player. Right. Did he start playing this year?"
Now you may not know what all of the words they say are supposed to mean in a sentence, but here's the major difference, you know that they are saying words. In English even. May not be perfect English, but you get an idea. You can even rip them for trying and failing at singing the chorus (I kinda think it adds to the charm).
Now let's look at the remake of the same song by The Devil Wears Prada:
The sad thing is the song actually starts out great. The awesome guitar riff version of the original's, the haunting chorus sung by someone that can actually hold a tune. The first time I heard it, I was really ready to get into it and give it a chance.
And then at the :46 mark, it all completely fell apart.
Once I heard that cat-screeching directly into my ear, I couldn't last another five seconds. I tell you honestly, if I had never heard the original song and I had the endurance and insanity to listen to this song fifty times, I could not tell you one word outside of the chorus that is being said. It could've been sung backwards in Arabic for all I know.
Just to put things in perspective, here's an example of what I consider a rock song from beginning to end:
Heck, I can even be a fan of a song in a language I don't understand if it's good enough:
Do you know what the last two songs, along with the first two, have in common? I can tell that they're being sung in a language that exists on this planet. So I would much, much, much rather listen to a "retard attempting poetry" than an alley cat being skinned alive set to music.
