Confusion! For The Inclined... - By Dom

With music already heading for the decline, we seem to have ourselves in a mincing of many genres here... If electro/pop/punk/emo/goth/dark/rock doesn't have you confused, let's dive into the vastly growing "new" genre.. dance-pop.

Yes, it's all over, bands like, Panic! At The Disco, Head Automatica, and Fall Out Boy are dominating MTV (that's music television incase you were wondering), FUSE, and all those other "rebel" TV stations.

Now for the muscially inclined individual, this all may seem like a massive mess. Simply put, it is.

Not only is this genre a confusion of all different types of music meshed together, it also seems to have crossed itself into a type of music called emo, which seems to be an ugly word these days. In reality though, most bands who are called emo are really blocking out the true feeling of emotional rock geniuses like Cursive and Sunny Day Real Estate.

Bands like Gang of Four, and New Order would fall into the category of "dance-pop" and they had made their music 10-20 years ago. So why you ask is this exhausted garbage being repackaged today?

Quite frankly, I have no fucking idea. The music industry seemed to have a clever idea of rounding up about 20 bands with lead singers who all sound the same, start out with these techy rifts and lead into a lyrical disaster with sophomoric motives about "wishing to be the friction in your jeans.."

To sum it all up, the trend of dance-pop has been around for years, unfortunately people are too fucking lazy to go find it.