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Originally posted by LaLaFaV
The only problem is that these "waves" of new bands remain interesting for kids for shorter and shorter periods of time. It's this downward spiral effect. When does it end?
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I`m going to use the most recent "wave I can think of for an example here.
The funny thing is the whole "wave" that happened in Seattle was a bunch of kids that were into Various hardcore punk and heavy metal bands started writing songs and playing shows.
The thing is Kids all over the states had been doing that for years and years. Not a big deal at all.
It`s just like kids that discover Led Zeppelin these days and start writing stuff like that. (yes it does still happen)
The thing that turned it into a wave was the fact that MTV and the various big labels jumped on Seattle for some reason and decided to mass produce it and call it grunge.
It was never a wave before that happened. It was just a local club scene and the same thing could have happened in Boston or San Francisco 5 or ten years earlier if people started jumping on the local punk bands there instead.
The problem is that oncethese record label idiots jump on something to that degree it creates this thing where kids start trying to emulate something that happened 2years ago instead of the combination of bands over 15 years or so.
So instead of getting newer bands that were also good at writing punk metal tunes we got abunch of bands that were directly ripping off Pearl Jam and Nirvana and you can`t go anywhere musically with that.
Like I said earlier you need to draw on MORE influence not less to create an original style and it aint going to happen if your trying to come up with an original sound based on the newest wave of pop punk.
You have to reach a little further.