Unconsciously, two of this year's three rap programs have come to an end, and "Junior Rap Planning" is also nearing the end. With the updated iteration of the program, the number of topics discussed by the audience has gradually changed from "many and general" to "small and fine".
Reviewing these three rap programs this year, it is not difficult for us to find that this is an era in which singers and listeners are paying more and more attention to "two-way rushing", young creators are trying to improve the quality of songs, and countless young audiences are not stingy to "seal the gods" for their works.
Through these examples, we find that the topic discussion level of young audiences has also begun to be deeply perpendicular to a certain aspect of life, the most obvious of which is the "emo moment" in one hit.
"At seven o'clock in the morning, at three o'clock in the morning, I was double-struck emo, said well, did not stay up late, looked up at the alarm clock and ..." The accompanying "emo" always stimulates the nerves of young people at various moments, almost dragging them into the swamp of emotional crisis. For today's young people, emo is a thing that goes up in minutes, and it is not even an exaggeration to say that there may be a thousand ways for a person to emo.
The core of the Internet is "decentralization", that is, breaking boundaries and integrating the existence or absence. The "Generation Z", who grew up under the influence of Internet culture, is of course no longer limited to the shackles of music genres, styles, and languages.
As one of the transmission media of today's funeral culture, the rhythm and lyrics of emo rap all exude a sense of decadence, and its highly infectious characteristics also meet the current needs of young people.
It not only provides sufficient emotional value, but also becomes a paradise lost in the new era of audience mourning. On the music playback platform, playlists and comment areas about emo rap sparked heated discussions.
But for most listeners, "bad", "depressed", "depressed"... These terms exclusive to emo rap are eating away at people's optimism and positivity, and statements such as "emo rap is too non-mainstream" and "listen to pull" have followed. It is also the asymmetry in these messages that exacerbates people's cognitive bias in the genre of emo rap.
But with a little observation, we may be able to glimpse the truth from another angle. If we stop at the most superficial lyrics and emotional expressions, the statement that "emo rap is non-mainstream" is indeed beyond reproach. But what is more noteworthy is that some young people listen to emo rap more to find the fundamental source of the emotions that emo rappers want to express.
When it comes to the leading figures of emo rap, XXXTentacion is an absolutely unavoidable name. He bridged the gap between emotion and rap in his own way, and was loved by many young people. "An emo text + selfie + depression diagnosis notice + XXXTentacion music" has become the standard social media sharing template for some young surfers.
It is precisely because of his existence that young listeners believe that the meaning of emo rap is definitely not depressing, nor should it be just immersed in sadness, in fact, it is more necessary to experience the desire and yearning for beauty through sadness in the song. The power of xxx is positive, it is piercing and wailing, it is the power of endless urging.
Similarly, the catch-up "emo after the wave" juice Wrld believes that the world is not a piece of light, hence the decadence of emo rap. This argument may sound a little pessimistic, but the greatest value of Emo rapper is to make himself and his audience optimistic through emotional catharsis.
Even the emo of Little Uzi, who has recently broken the circle due to the diamond setting of the brain door, has attracted a large wave of attention is only temporary, and the breakup with his girlfriend may be the only moment when Little Uzi will play the emo to the fullest. But after the momentum passed, he became the "Atlanta comedian" who lived every three to five full lives.
As one of the pioneer musicians of domestic emo rap, Blood Boy also has his own opinions. He argues that the increasing indulgence of emo rappers in the world of emotion proves that we need such music. Although the kernel is indeed sad, it is undeniable that this has also saved countless souls that cannot be cathartic.
Emo rap may not be the traditional "righteous" rap, nor can it be used as a microphone alone. In fact, for good rap, "resonance" is the process and "offense" is the norm. The premise of emo rap is to dare to render emotions, and young people do not sin against it.
But it is clear that most of the audience at home has not yet formed a consensus on offense. This has led to either young people following emo rap choosing to start melancholy mode in the middle of the night to post some empty stories or lyrics, or because of most of the satire, netizens have "whipped corpses" with magnifying glasses.
I don't know when it began, some homogeneous, obviously illogical comment copy also began to be deliberately highlighted by the players. In their eyes, in the middle of the night, the NetEase Cloud comment area is collectively occupied by countless idiot men and women, expressing their dissatisfaction and pain in batches, and such pictures are accurately and powerfully outlined in the form of paragraphs.
Netizens have also begun to seriously define and label the behavior of these young groups, from the beginning of the ridicule of these sad and outrageous words, to the later gradually become the use of software people, "net suppression cloud" has also become a stigmatized ridicule.
At the same time, the ills in the rap circle also began to appear, like a backyard fire. Some hip-hop fans have defended their territories, establishing a clear and complex chain of contempt, and are bound to stand at the top of the chain of contempt.
They divide rap into three, six, nine, and so on, while issuing sarcasm: "Listening to emo rap is the follower dog", "old school/trap is yyds!" ”······ This also makes the emo rap vaguely reveal a certain sense of misplaced funny.
In fact, whether it is a pure and flavorful old school or a passionate trap, it reflects personal emotions, and the situation embodied in emo rap is a spiritual desire of young audiences.
In addition, they are eager to tell us in action that the model of the ideal rap is not a golden rule that has been set, but a changing personality experience. Although emo is obtained on the basis of "mourning", it is better than everyone endangering themselves.
To some extent, the emo of young people is not so much an outlet for negative emotions, but rather an understanding of themselves and self-deprecation to achieve the purpose of reducing stress and expectations.
Young people are in a stage of shallow experience, and they urgently need to project a large number of emotional needs into reality, so they can only focus their emotional radar on the only life opportunities, of course, these setbacks in the more mature mind of people, sometimes inevitably slightly green and temperamental.
On netease cloud, some netizens used such a sentence in "A Tale of Two Cities" to evaluate emo rap: "This is the best era, this is the worst era." In fact, whether it is music or words, they are like flags, and under the banners can always gather an army of sympathizers.
If you are a little pessimistic after listening to emo rap, don't be too harsh on yourself, everyone will have negative emotions. But don't ulterior motives to amplify your emotions, pretend to be depressed, and make up stories to win attention and sympathy. Because once we go too far, it will affect the real life we live in.
Or many years later, when the new generation of Secondary 2 children begin to think of complexity for emo, and the string of notes they are pursuing will only turn into two light words: Silly X...