A lot of people can't understand music wiht screaming vocals. Most of the time, there isn't a point to them, I'll admit that. The lyrics could be sung, but in the case of the following, I'd rather hear them screamed from the gut of a man who's feeling just as used and torn apart by the oh so perfect, attainable world we absofuckinglutely MUST love dying in.
Botch - Stupid Me
It's just another selfish game,
but i won't participate in this way of conquest,
right of passage.
Strive for stature, exploit the passive.
Point rank system.
Joint rape project.
Count me out, i'm not submitting.
Your score proves nothing to me.
Masculinity...
THe lyrics alone make me want to jump in a moshpit or at least scream the words because they aren't the kind of thing you whisper or sing harmoniously with tonally cloned rhythms.
Whats important to understand is that no matter what someone does in a song, they're just singing. Even if they're growling in a death metal song praising Satan, or they're using all this weird vibrato for some RnB song. Its always a human expressing their selves.
Another case relevant to this perception is Gojira. The frontman Joe Duplantier screams his ass off but a lyric I love by him is "Mountainous waves are crasing on my despair."
Fuck singing that. Thats a hurtful image. Thats a cruel image. Thats the worst being thrown on the worst.
So in conclusion, listen to screamers that have something to scream about.
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