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Without meaning to get all Daily Mail on y'all...the world of emo is, self-confessedly, misogynistic. Pete Wentz has mused openly about why girls would choose to sing his lyrics at Fall Out Male child shows when he acknowledges they are frequently derogatory to their gender. Past-words for females in emo songs are, as a dominion, the sort of matter your mother would not be proud to hear y'all say, and the bands are almost universally male. Enter, then, Paramore, with Hayley Williams centre-stage as a Girl In Emo...a Femo, if yous similar.

Paramore have been boot around for ages (or well a year or and then, which is what passes for 'ages' in these turbulent pop times) actually and I have never found them likeable. The music itself is really very good and Hayley's pair of lungs are perfectly adequate. Although it's not peculiarly ground-breaking in any way, it's pretty fun and shouty and definitely better than a lot of emo (Cute Is What We Aim For, I am looking at y'all) and so what the hell, if I similar Brilliant Eyes and Fall Out Boy, I might as well plunge headlong into this, then, surely?

Now, I am willing to entertain the possibility that I am only jealous: Hayley Williams is thinner than me, has better hair and her bandmates are cuter than most of my friends. She is successful and anybody fancies her. Messed-upwardly-Britney without actually being Britney being messed upwardly. It'south beautiful. Possibly. I don't know, she but doesn't seem equally bonny as she should, really and I know that shouldn't thing with regards to the music simply she is dragged to the fore of the songs and there'south no question they're very much nigh her and then y'all can't avoid her in discussing them. Such is the nature of that which we have come to call emo.

Aside from the fact there's a bit in this which keeps sounding similar it ought to become into the "sentinel this, baby, sentinel me EAT MY OWN Brain!" bit from 'Zombie Girl' past The Spazzys, this song doesn't bother me overmuch, musically. I similar the bit where it breaks down a bit in the heart eight and it's entertainingly goofy in an Avril-By-Ramen mode. It could actually acquit quite a strong comparison to Ms. Lavigne's concluding single, in that it has a fleck of a cheerleady edge to it and a ridiculous high-school video of girls beingness horrible to girls and boys being fools for girls, but never listen that, because information technology'south not overly interesting.

What bothers me is the lyrics. Now, girls and boys, we know that there are some words which are rude and nosotros know that ladies of pop are non above referring to immature amorous men in various derogatory ways and there is a lot of man-hating music out there (the same Spazzys song comes from a long line of what 10 Things I Hate Most Y'all accurately describes as 'Angry Girl Music' and R&B/pop is total of stories of cheating-no-practiced-boys) then perhaps I am exercising double-standards here but I practise feel extremely uncomfortable with emo's characterisation of females as 'whores'. It'due south a nearly universal maxim that ex-girlfriends, ex-girlfriends' friends, girls you lot screwed in one case and just remembered, girls you screwed once and can't forget etc, are whores.

Girls cannot be trusted, they are shallow and will claw upward with your best friends at the slightest provocation. They are unsafe and seductive and they are Out To Go You, human being. And it's not just modernistic rock that thinks this, either. Look at all the magazine manufactures about how to ii-time him, how to get him to take you shopping, how to flit round in the latest high heels, how to use your boyfriend for whatsoever y'all can become - the mags don't like girls either. In fact rarely do articles in female-oriented magazines OR lad mags consider annihilation but how to get more for y'all, you and you.

Confidence-boosting though this may be, information technology does draw a fictional line betwixt the sexes as though they tin can never have a meaningful discourse. Thing is, those magazines are not and never have been anything approaching an accurate representation of what goes on between entire biological groups. And while I will admit the commercialisation and willing sexual objectification of my gender both frightens and appalls me, I don't like the way 'whore' trips simply as lightly off Hayley's tongue as it might Adam Lazarra's.

You might think that Hayley's opportunity here was to be superior to the name-calling and but be a good musician. And this is what, really, honestly, bothers me about the song. No dubiety there are girls who break hearts like the rest of usa intermission eyeliner or volume spines or whatever, but the way Hayley sings the song on behalf of her swain (inherited from the heartbreaking girl, much to Hayley's delight) is actually kind of creepy, like he's a possession or status symbol and relationships are just plays in a chiliad game theory.

Inevitably, lines similar "once a whore you're nothing more than, I'one thousand sorry that will never modify" linked with "well there'southward a 1000000 other girls who practise it just like y'all" get their way in there, and withal Hayley gets touted as a feminist icon in a male-dominated genre when in this song at least, she seems one of the worst offenders.

The ring take potential to exist very, very good indeed. They have potential to be intensely likeable and they take potential to be musically ace, however, equally long as Hayley is playing the part of any other emo vocalizer, I can't particularly dear them. I know they have fans who border on the single-minded, their obsession has reached such heights and I'd rather it was Paramore than a lot of other bands simply for me, in that location's just something weird and wrong and to exist honest, half faked about the whole thing.

That and "she'southward got a body like an hourglass, it's ticking like a clock" is a Really awful lyric.

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(Hazel Robinson)

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Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog/2007/06/paramore_misery_business.shtml