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Kasabian: "Emo is dead in my eyes."

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by Mike Diver

MTV News have reported Kasabian's verdict on all things emo: it's dead, apparently.

'Singer' Tom Meighan - LAAA LAAA LAAAAA LAAA LAAAAAAA - said that he couldn't see how such music could make kids happy, and keep them positive about life, and stuff.

Says the man with the big gob and small brain:

"I keep hearing how emo music is bringing kids together and that it's got these positive messages and all that, but if it's damaging teenagers and if it's making them depressed, how can that be a good thing? All it causes is moaning teenagers. There's nothing positive from it. People tell me it's doing something for the kids, but all it's doing is making them moan all the time.

"It may upset people, but emo is dead in my eyes. Fuck emo. Just enjoy the world. Teenagers are better than that, man. I want to tell them to be positive about life. You've been brought up well by your parents, so don't sit around in your bedroom cutting your wrists. Grow up."

Really, words fail me. Somewhere in Britain, right now, a fan of My Chemical Romance is self-harming. Of course they are, and it's all the music's fault. And the way to stop this is to be told to grow up. And listen to Kasabian, presumably. (We guess Meighan never read this article, where MCR singer Gerard Way talks about how fans stop self-harming after getting into his band.)

Tsk, Meighan: first you call your shitty second album Empire, and then you wax lyrical about a subject you're clearly out of touch with, like some Daily Mail reader ranting to nobody at all on a single-decker bus cruising the neat 'n' tidy roads of some white middle-class village in the Home Counties. Fuck emo? Fuck off.

Perhaps next week we should hold an Empire amnesty. Anyone who foolishly parted with hard-earned cash for this record can come to DiS, and we'll give them anything else in exchange for smashing it before their eyes. We've got a water cooler - you can have an empty bottle from it. Holds over eighteen litres! That's fairly fresh.


Lol

What a dick.


i did a test

and it said i am an emo. I don't cut my wrists but i am guilty of sitting in dark rooms.


diver:

marry me.


Circa Survive

Doesn't make me want to cut my wrists and be depressed.


Braid and Rival Schools make me jump around my room, smiling and laughing...

...likewise Burning Airlines, Texas Is The Reason, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Small Brown Bike, Promise Ring, Jimmy Eat World, etc etc etc etc etc...

Fucking Kasabian.


what a cock job

i'd like to see guy picciotto rip his larynx out.


meighan and serge

are the biggest buch of cunts i have ever seen....
on a interview i saw at V they said when something is really good they started calling it EMPIRE!!

Yeah thats Well Empire !!! man

i mean what kind of cunt does that

and there musics shite it keeps me up all night....your not oasis and you got no tunes ...


.

Wasn't Ian Mackaye in Embrace!?


I have empire

I didn't pay for it but I like the song Stuntman.




I'll get my coat


very

nice rant


Teenagers are always

stroppy shits anyway.
This man has no case.
(And his band are shit)


hahaha.

his problem is he knows his own audience is 35 year old blokes in footy tops who never got over Oasis at Knebworth or the first time they necked a bean and heard Screamadelica.
the idea that other bands have audiences that'll still be alive by the time their third album comes out must get his goat a bit.


Kasabian = shit

Emo = shit


are you in slipknot?

'cause you're ripping them off there.

I bet he read that daily mail article about emo/goth destroying the universe or whatever and was nodding along sadly muttering "how true".


err...

Nope. I presume you're refering to one of their t-shirts or 'hoodies' as the yoof or kidz call them, but I honestly don't know what you mean.


Hahahahaha...

...i think it's all very funny. I'm not a massive fan of Kasabian, although i do like the single 'Empire'. Emo really baits my badger...no need for it AT all.


EXCLUSIVE!!!

if you play spy vs spy backwards you hear the sound of edward scissorhands weeping and telling you to cut yourself.

It'll be in the Mail by next week...

Thinking about the most cheerful emo songs evah - i'd go with either 'sweet avenue' by jets to brazil or rival schools' 'good things'. Both of which wee all over kasabian...


I'd also include...

'A Praise Chorus' by jimmy eat world in that list - another slice of happy genius


I think he's just jealous

that despite all their John Was A Scientist's, and monkeys, and LSD, Kasabian will never write anything as bonkers as that new My Chemical Romance song.


thankyou so much mike

i started off angry, and by the end, you had done all the ranting i needed to.
it was a journey.

also: "You've been brought up well by your parents, so don't sit around in your bedroom cutting your wrists. "

yes. everybody has a fantastic family.


best rant I've read in a very long time, Diver

you've made my day. Ta.
Theres really nothing else that can be said about such a ridiculous outburst. I wonder if any charities/bodies/people with a modicum of intellect will formulate any kind of response to this in the media?
It'd be nice to see the uneducated twat get his comeuppance in print, and not just from the usual sources (ie, DiS!)

Kasabian are fucking cancer.


Aha!

Emo-a-go-go!
Thank god for people like Tom, bringing people together and advocating drug use because it's the only way to listen to his band without wanting to eat glass.


Mmmmm Moron

What is depressing is being told that i'm depressed for listening t a particular sub genre of music.

I don't mind kasabian but what a tosser he seems, clearly an avid reader of the reactyionary tabloid press, but i suppose it is them that gave his album all the hype


he is totally true

Go on Tom he is totally right all emos have tride attemped murder and they all stink noob heds


Mr Diver

You is the man.. Fucken Kasabian.


just enjoy the world

take cocaine like we do


shit bad slags off shit band

much as i loathe and detest emo with every bone in my body, i'd still grudgingly take MCR over Kasabian.


shit bad slags off shit band

much as i loathe and detest Kasabian with every bone in my body, i'd still grudgingly take them over MCR


I'm thick....

.........but what's EMO?????????!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry........!!!


Emotional Rock

it's all about the fringe


emo is

wank.

obviously meighan wasn't joking about wrist slitting. that couldn't be possible... because that would make him have a sense of humour.

unlike you fucking serious-faced mcr loving wankstains.

now you fuck off.


ho hum

we are all intelligent and educated enough to understand and interpret tone. The tone of Meighan's statement (as reported) is clearly humourless.

He "was only joking" is the worst, most tired defence of the indefencable.

As for what Emo is? the wikipedia entry for the musical subgenre is surprisingly good - check it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28music%29

and listen to faraquet, obviously.


...

"obviously meighan wasn't joking about wrist slitting. that couldn't be possible... because that would make him have a sense of humour."

Yeah, I missed out on that comedy nugget.

But now I get, and it's resulted in a serious case of the ROFLs.

:(


oh dear god

this man has reached an unimaginable level of idiocy. Great article though, I just hope Kasabian read it.


Thanks....

......for the EMO info..........

Kasabian = Primal Scream tribute band.......


Another gobshite remark....

.....from the knobhead who makes the Oasis boys seem polite and accepting. Not a huge fan of Kasabian, and their bile spouting BS is not enduring me to them any more.


Oh No.

Jets to Brazil is emo? Say it isn't so. I'd like to keep the album, really.


I heart

Glassjaw, Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith...
and i am a depressed person.
it makes perfect sense.


I will assasinate him

if DiS provides me with a rifle.


I might

buy Empire and put it in my CD player and then kill myself in the middle of London with a knife though a vein so blood sprays everywhere and it's disgustingly horrific and then when they do the autopsy they'll see it says "Kasabian made me do it" on my chest.

Someone take a photo of that cunt's face when he reads that newspaper article, and bring it to me when you come to heaven. I'll be the one Jesus is congratulating.


i think

you would be looking for an artery. Cutting a vein aint gonna spray much at all.
However much of a tosser this kasabian bloke may be, however much shite may come out of his mouth, and however wank his bands new album may be, whats the big problem with emo?
Its just a type of music guys. Some people are into it. If you dont like it - dont listen to it.


Thanks for that.

Facts were the basis of my entire post, and your suggestion will improve my suicide plan immensely.


best

diver. rant. ever.


Kasabian's Empire won't last very long

'Cos their geography is shit.

Leicester in 'the North'? You cannot be serious.


bloody kasabian

You may have ruined pro evo 5 but you'll never ruin emo!!!!!!!


I don't see the point in this...

...it was just posted to get everyone angry. What's the big deal?


hes giving all emo haters

like me a bad name


Paris Hilton's in Black Make up.....

Firstly, Kasabian are a good band. That cannot be doubted. They are a proper band unlike My Chemical Romance.

Frankly, EMO Music is poor and My Chem are awful. It's not about these bands necessarily being a bad influence, but Lyrically and Musically they are commercial bullshit.

Lyrically, it's so banal, it's not beautiful melancholic music, it's just teenage rants. The original goth bands like The Cure were well read and informed, had no relation to the awful lyrics of these EMO bands.

The EMO kids don't even look gothic. They look like little Paris Hiltons wearing black eyeliner.

As with all 'Scenes'this music will die off. Silly narcissitic, self obsessed people making awful music.

Also, what is with the fucking 5 syllable band names?


ignoring your pointless generalisations:

"(Kasabian) are a proper band unlike My Chemical Romance"

so who is Kasabian's drummer?


Smoke my Pole!

HA HA YOU SAID KASABIAN ARE A PROPER BAND THATS AMAZING HA HA HA HA, YOUR SO OVER 35 COS YOU CALL GOTHS, GOTHICS.
DO YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW YOUR GAY!

I BET YOUR LOSING YOUR HAIR AS WELL!


very yes

you are a fucking beacon of sobriety.

i dont know why people are wound up by this. emo *is* fucking dying believe it or not. it's wheezing and whining and going slowly but its finally fucking ending. i've always been allergic to this bullshit scene, where it's all piss shallow people pretending to part of something meaningful. mcr and all clones are just part of the same shit on repeat. nothing original.

anyway im gonna staple that post to the head of every ridiculous mopey bastard with a swimming pool


Kasabian

the most ignorant band ever in the history of music.


EMO LOL

You will all grow up sooner or later and laugh at how stupid you were, I mean come on "My Chemical romance" is Pete Waterman behind them or what? They are so lame and mainstream... sorry if i made you kids cry.....


MCR fans

I think they should self harm themselves to death, remove themselves from the gene pool. MCR etc = Boring.


bottom line is...

...people with an ounce of common sense understand that emos and the music which spawned them are hilarious.

emos can't help being as woefully misguided as they are, much as the bands they love can't help writing terrible lyrics and shite riffs.

would you laugh at someone in a wheelchair, you sick fucks?


Yes...I would

But only if they were well spazzified, not just crippled.


i would also

laugh if they drooled.

i suppose we are all sick fucks.


Couldn't....

have put it better myself.

and ranting about the atrociousness of Kasabian is my favourite thing to do when I'm bored!


!

apparently Tom's a right crackhead


.....

doesn't the lead singer from kasabian look a little obi-wan kenobi these days. they think they're far more important than they should be, primal scream xerox at best.


OMGWTFBBQ

All those bands aren't exactly great christ Empire's not a bad album and I don't particularly like Kasabian, on the other hand MCR have some good songs but are guilty of a few killer tracks and a lot of soundalike filler.

At the end of the day this article starts of strong then degenerates into 'OMG THEY DON'T LIKE EMO?!?! WELL INDIE SUCKS SO THERE!!!!' way to go, want a medal?

It's only music, music is a big part of my life, I've even worked in the music press myself, but the main difference is indie fans just have their music as a soundtrack before/while they go out on the piss etc. Emo is the same except somehow being Emo makes you 'special'.

Whatever.


No Kasbian, you have no right to pick on emo bands

What a prick. Emo may not be my genre of choice, but it sure as hell beats this whiny bastard. Please let me marry the writer of this article. Seriously, Kasabian you just sound like generic English indie rock (Arctic Monkeys, Rooster). At least AM are decent.


Gashabian

Never forget that shit comes out of an a'hole. Unfortunately this latest attempt at nedrock is partly due to the legacy of those dull turds, Oasis. They have a lot to answer for. I am working on a solution to eliminate them. All contributions welcome. I only had the misfortune of hearing, and subsequently seeing, Kasabian fairly recently. I had to take a fortnight off work due to the fact that I couldn't stop laughing. I had heard a wailing 'waaaaaaaaahaaaaahaaaahahahaahha' now and then when flicking between radio channels and thought 'what the f##k is that?'. And not in a good way. Now having seen these Cro-Magnon illiterati on the tv, I can partly understand. Why are these despicable cockknockers alive??? Finally, pass the moronic fuds a dictionary. The last time I checked, 'empire' had around 10 different meanings, none of which stated, 'awesome, incredible, pukka!!' although I might drop a note to Websters requesting they add a definition, 'grinning ned retropiss wankstain dross'.


emosqueemo

So, Kasabian don't like Emo? Big deal! All that proves is that Tom Meighan is prejudice and has little knowledge of emo groups.

If he wants kids to be positive and enjoy life then good on him, can you fault that? Kasabian have some monster songs and Shoot The Runner video is a killer.


Also,

My Chemical Romance are hardly the cheeriest of bands, I'm not ok...I'm not ok...I'm not ok...etc, so you can appreciate why, on first impressions, Tom M might have said this.

However, they do have some catchy tunes. I am just as prejudice as Mr Meighan, I don't really know what MCR are all about either, but I'm more open minded than he is.


the jeans...

...on a fucking Carl Barat bumming indie kid are far more tighter than a scene kids.


screw kasabian.

seriously.
if any music made me want to
kill myself, its this.

kasabian is worse than rap.
and rap is as bad as it gets.

i heard about the whole tom
vs mcr thing,
and what he said.
so i decided to listen to the
band, see if they were any good.

i expected them to be good enough
for the lead singer
to be talking shit about
another band,
but they were the worst band
i have ever heard.

just, badddd music.

seriously, all kasabian fans
need to go listen to some
my chem, fall out boy, panic! at the disco, and the academy is.

do it. it'll save your life.

get some blood running through
those veins.


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