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Originally Posted by User Name
i dj, and i don't judge all artists on a particular label the same way... if i did that, i'd miss a bunch of music i love.
angst is what you make of it, i didn't realize music was supposed to be pretty and happy all the time.
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No....music does not need to be happy and pretty all of the time. However,when a band or a label rely on angst filled lyrics constantly it gets old really fast. The only band that I ever liked on Metropolis was Die Form because they actually sounded different than all of the other bands signed to that label. I would respect that label a whole bunch more if they actually signed bands that didn't sound so much alike.When I was a dj I spun old school goth,punk and deathrock. I NEVER spun synthpop because it was already being over played by other djs. Actually synthpop music sounds happy. I mean everybody dances around to it like Energizer rabbits...right? But then there are those pesky angst lyrics that go along with it. Maybe certain synthpop bands should stop taking themselves so damned seriously and stop thinking that the world revolves around them. Some of my all time favorite bands are 'dark' as hell and don't rely on angst filled lyrics. Samhain and Mozart both wrote music that was dark as hell but they never wrote lyrics complaining about how the world doesn't understand them. I think it takes a lot more talent writing good 'dark' music than lyrics that only an angst filled teen can identify with.