Inspiring other young emo artists?

Posted by Cazmus on January 4th, 2007 at 06:07pm

As maybe the first teenage solo emo artist to hit the charts, perhaps this will inspire other teenage emo’s with talent to be more brave with performing their music.

 With many of the teen artists who actually hit the charts being mostly pop artists, for example Jojo, Britney, and Jesse Mccartney, its unique and interesting to have a different kind of teen artist hit the charts. The good thing with Lil Chris is that he’s different to everything out there at the moment. He’s got some rock, some emo, some indie and some pop in him, but this mixture is a big hit with the country. I think this is because the mixture contains all of the main types of music that people generally like.

After talking to a friend of mine, also a Lil Chris fan, I found out that she actually thought that because a young emo artist had made it so well into the charts, some other similar types of artists would follow. Thinking about this, I agree. I mean, the closest thing we have had to Lil Chris is the charts before would be an emo band, or perhaps Ashlee Simpson. Knowing that people do actually appreciate the emo sound in music, and that they don’t mind whether the artist is a solo one or a band, I do think that it would inspire solo emo artists to gain confidence in their music, and possibly make it big into the music industry. In my opinion, I think it’s about time for some more emo to be hitting the charts, and Lil Chris is a good start.

So what do you think about more emo artists being in the charts? And do you think that we should see some teenage artists who have different music genres to just pop?

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