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| From | "Christopher Kouzes" <Christopher.Kouzes@btol.com> |
| Subject | Re: Butch Walker |
| Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:39:39 -0500 |
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I guess that's just what I don't understand (or that I just don't pick
up on). Cool by me doing things tongue-in-cheek. But without a wink or a
nod letting everyone in on the joke, then is it a joke?
Based on the video I watched, the entire crowd was eating up the shtick
hand-over-fist.
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of Steve
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:09 PM
To: 'Stewart Mason'; audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Butch Walker
...then Butch is definitely NOT "emo"...Butch's tongue is firmly planted
in
his cheek. The whole thing about Butch is "he KNOWS its rock-n-roll
shtick"...that is precisely why he is doing it.
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of
Stewart Mason
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:32 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Butch Walker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael McCartney" <michaelmccartney@yahoo.com>> Drew asked:
>
> Help an old man out. What are "emo theatrics" and what is so
> off-putting about them?
>
>
> Robert replied:
>
> A good example might be during the ending of Butch's Best Thing You
> Never Had where Mr. Walker screams and wails while pulling out all
> the strings on his guitar and throwing himself on the floor of the
> stage. All while the band continues to play and the girls in the
> crowd hold their cell phones up and weep.
>
>
> Michael wonders:
>
> Isn't this the same thing that's been going on at rock shows for
> decades? Just substitute Kodak Instamatic cameras instead of cell
> phones? How does this make it Emo? Teenage girls crying at the
> foot of the stage sounds like The Beatles and Elvis to me. All over
> the stage sounds like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or The Who. I
> even witnessed that stage action at IPO last year.
Add in an overall sense -- from both performer and audience -- of
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!! I'm so SENSITIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! No one
UNDERSTANDS meeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! Everything sucks and it's ALL
YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!!!" and hey presto, you got emo.
S
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