and Paramore headlining, accompanied by sets from AFI, Avril Lavigne, Bright Eyes, Jimmy Eat World, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, The All American Rejects and the rest of the nostalgia-inducing, angsty bands your dad used to tell you to turn down as a pre-teen .
Except, I can’t help but think that perhaps the music itself was more of a sexual awakening than we thought – but for all the wrong reasons. In You Me At Six’s debut album Take Off Your Colours, for example, lyrics speak of ‘keeping score’ on ‘who is a whore’ in one song; having ‘front row seats’ to women on their knees, and leaving ‘respect at the door’ while women ‘ticked off’ their list of lovers.
Panic’s lead singer told us lying was the most fun girls could have without taking their clothes off – with cheating girls ‘exchanging body heat’ in the backseat of someone else’s car, while still boasting he was a ‘better f**k’. It’s got me thinking: how much of this music has affected my – and much of my generation’s – perception of sex? How much of this music affected me growing up, and how I allowed myself as a woman to be treated by men?
emmieehw MetroOpinion Don’t listen to the Stones or The Faces then
emmieehw MetroOpinion Tbf the whole emo scene was always pretty shit from the start.
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