THE ANNIVERSARY broke up in 2004 but continue to gain a following as their albums Designing For A Nervous Breakdown and Your Majesty are passed down from emo kid to emo kid...or more accurately, file sharing system to emo kid. In my "emo" phase, I scrounged through servers to find new tunes. I would download album after album of artists listed as "emo", only hanging on to the few that satisfied my ears immediately. Eventually my obsession ended, and I deleted most of the albums. Designing A Nervous Breakdown is one of few full albums still kicking after the great deletion of 2004. Why? Despite several songs being remarkably similar, I can still listen to the album to this day. Sure...it's whiney, melodramatic, and everything you expect from emo, but something about the instrumentation and male/female duel vocals made The Anniversary stand out among other emo acts.In fact, the simple inclusion of female vocals makes them stand out. Emo is a heavily male-dominated genre for several reasons. The ladies are left voiceless. Even if a girl wanted to sing emo, she'd have to declare that she's "emo" and therefore look like a total poser who's trying too hard. Otherwise, her "emo" music would be labeled as chick rock or lesbian music. The reason males dominate the genre is because of the limitations of the word and gender norms. Men are expected to bottle up their emotions and suck it up, but when they let 'em out...whether they like it or not, a scarlet E is slapped onto their breasts. When women express their emotions musically, society says they're just being women. Am I wrong to say that? Because I said it.In any case, it's awfully refreshing to hear Adrianne Verhoeven's smooth vocals flawlessly blending with the male vocals of the album. Her work on the keyboard is what makes the sound of The Anniversary so unique. Without her, there would be no band. In this sense, she's one of the first ladies of emo. None have come close to taking her thrown, other than Michelle Nolan of Straylight Run...but we'll talk about her later.DOWNLOAD: THE ANNIVERSARY- All Things OrdinaryDOWNLOAD: THE ANNIVERSARY- Emma DiscoveryBUY Designing A Nervous BreakdownCORRECTION: My emo expert friend has corrected me that there is a popular emo band with a female lead singer, Paramore. Perhaps I shall look into them.BLOGWATCH: Later, I'm sleepy!Etiquetas: designing a nervous breakdown, emo lane, internet confessions, rock bands, the anniversary
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@Sir Hillary -- 9:27: Bless you, bless you, for explaining to @Chefbea, and therefore also to me what on earth DD VI had to do with BY. I had a coupla DD VIs in the mix, with no idea whatever what they were or why they were there. I had DIVIDED BY for the 61A revealer, which didn't work for two of the Down clues -- though I had no idea why. I had the same reaction others did: that DD VI were letters contained in DIVIDED -- but what had happened to the other letters that weren't included. To have seen that bisecting B and Y gives you a D on top of another D and a V on top of an I -- well that would have required the ability to see things visually. And as I've said a million times: I AM NOT A VISUAL PERSON. I was going crazy, Sir Hillary, so thanks for being a real knight in shining armor and rescuing me from what was about to be a nervous breakdown.This is a very clever puzzle. If I'd finished it, not to mention actually understood it, I know I would have absolutely loved it. 2ff7e9595c
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