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<%= partial 'music-monday-post-header', :locals => {:path => (defined? path) ? path : this.current_path} %> |
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<p>This week, season 2 finale! This last post is an ode to |
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(Midwest) Emo music in general, and a (breakup) song in |
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particular.</p> |
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<p>For many years I had heard about the genre “emo” but I |
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always dismissed it as something I surely wouldn’t like. And |
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sure enough, some of it is really not my jam. However, there |
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are several variants and subgenres. One of the subgenres I |
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like |
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is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_emo">Midwest |
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emo</a>, which is closer to progressive rock than |
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others. And they seem to share my love for <a href="/music-monday/posts/2020-08-24-arpeggios.html">arpeggios</a>, too |
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(see last week’s Music Monday post!).</p> |
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<p>One of the most important bands in that genre |
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is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_(band)">American |
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Football</a>, and their most well-known song is probably the |
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wonderful Never Meant (which was <a href="http://music.hcoder.org/music-monday/posts/2019-04-08-never-meant.html">featured once in an earlier |
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Music Monday</a>):</p> |
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<%= partial 'music-monday-youtube-video', :locals => { |
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:youtube_id => '_NfnXdXpjL0', |
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:title => "American Football - Never Meant" |
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} %> |
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<p>This breakup song has clearly struck a chord in many |
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people, judging by |
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the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoyLpDAQQsk&list=PL7bybKzEZF4w7NMPVmIO3lLfAHwiq8MAK&index=1">amazing |
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list of covers</a> people have made.</p> |
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<p>In fact, I love this song so much that it even inspired me |
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to write a storytelling game called |
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“<a href="https://hardcorenarrativist.itch.io/neve-rmeant">neve |
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rmeant</a>”!</p> |
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</article> |
