A Cry for Help

I also have been listening to Motion City Soundtrack's I Am the Movie which has made me realize I have no idea whether or not it's good. All this emo-crossover stuff has ruined everything. Usually I just wait until Nightwing gets around to sorting it out for me (I can wait, I have about 300 songs on my iPod that I've honestly never listened to once). So if MCS sucks and proves I am lame, well, sorry, I didn't know.

Also I can't really tell the difference anymore between emo and what is considered new alternative music (that's "new" as in 2004-2005, not a new genre). I was at my dad's house the other day clicking through his newly installed Cox Digital Crack Cable music channels ("hey Billy, I'm in the 21st century now!"), and the alternative station was all-emo. I haven't checked in with WBRU in a long time, so could it be that today's middle school kids will look back on this stuff as the most important music of their lives? I shudder to think. (Yes, I'm sure my 13 year old self was pitied by hair band aficionados.)

(And another aside: I thought "Motion City Soundtrack" was definitely an 80's band. Listening to the sample of "The Future Freaks Me Out" on iTunes only reassured me, but then there was a line about Will and Grace. It's a weird world out there.)

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