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[ivyfic]

I just got Johnny Cash's album The Man Comes Around. "Hurt" is really the most emo song ever written. (Yes, I know it's Trent Reznor.) From now on, if someone asks me what emo is, I will play this song. I love it so.

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I see that song as self-absorbed wish-fulfillment, though. He's playing out a savior fantasy--that he's the only one who sees her in pain, that he can save her. Which to me still is emo.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I just don't see it as any more emo than any other song out there that isn't the product of a drum machine.