Oh the irony.
Drop Dead, Gorgeous look a bit like this. Predictable t-shirt and jeans, sleeve tattoos and more hair than a shaggy dog. They sound (and look) like Underoath's younger brothers and have clearly played their Norma Jean records to death. Yet this angry little mob have written and recorded a song called 'Dressed For Friend Requests', a song which, get this, satirises MySpace.
According to a recent online interview: "There’s a line in the song that says, “Yeah, you’re just jealous.” And how everybody acts like a celebrity on Myspace and acts like they’re the biggest rock stars. They dress up to take their pictures and go to shows. I mean, that’s cool if you do it, but that’s not something we do. Just be yourself." Since when has being yourself been the new 'let's look the same as everyone else?'
Anyway, Rise Records found these youngsters after stumbling across their profile on, yes, you guessed it, myspace, so while the band are clearly willing to bite the hand that feeds, it's a pity their generic brand of screamy emo-core, or whatever we have to call it nowadays, is as predictable as the genre itself. Sure, this band will blow up and have their five minutes of fame, but 'In Vogue', as the name suggests, does little else than pay tribute to a genre of music that, in my opinion, has outlasted the five minutes of fame it should have been allowed. Borrowed ideas, borrowed riffs and an image like millions of dysfunctional kids the world over. Another cookie cutter crew off the emotional conveyor belt. Next!
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