listen, i don't write emo. i posted the vocal compilation, and it's a collection of shock rock postmodernism and (at times, intuitive) anarchist rants. there's maybe two poems that could be classified as 'beatnik'. the main focus of my vocals is and also has been political. very early vocal influences included roger waters, john lennon, michael stipe and bono. in high school, i listened to a lot of punk, in a wide range of sub-styles, but it was always vaguely political - from my first offspring cassettes when i was 13 to the major movement acts (dead kennedys, bad religion, skinny puppy) to my exit point in the late 90s, which was mostly centered around a silver mt zion. since then, 95% of the music composed has been instrumental. i really haven't listened to much of anything labeled "rock music" since about the year 2000.

i never listened to pavement or fugazi or anything like that - i largely found it amelodic and boring.

so, i skipped the entire emo thing and i frankly don't really understand what it really was. in fact, i was not really cognizant of it happening around me, at the time. i was more cognizant of what you might call "nu-metal", but i didn't like it, either. you could run me off a list of 00s emo bands, and i would barely even recognize most of them. the few i would recognize, i'd mostly argue were trash. what i was actually listening to during that period was idm, post-rock and jazz - and almost all of it was instrumental. at the time, i would have told you that "emo", which i would have just called "punk", was largely childish and stupid - and pretty boring. or, i would have written off what you're calling "emo" as "nu-metal", and not bothered further with it, by proxy. i was not open to exploring the genre and looking for hidden gems, at that time - i had made up mind that it was all corporate drivel and not worth my time.

there was a batch of post-hardcore bands that showed up about the year 2010 (a little before) that i found a little more interesting, because they were a lot more developed, both musically and thematically. they were mostly writing concept-records, which is something you more readily associate with progressive rock. but, i still wouldn't call any of it "emo". in fact, i'd label the bulk of it "grunge" or "alternative rock".  and, it's had no development on the music i've produced, because it was released years after i wrote all of it.

the singer that i worked with for a few months at the end of 2001 and the start of 2002 dabbled in what could be called emo or screamo, although he would have no doubt preferred the term post-hardcore and would have broadly labeled himself an aimless, trendy bitch. he was a fan of all those bands that were running in the fake underground media - at the drive-in, neutral milk hotel, etc. i had no interest in any of that; i was following the brainwashed feed and listening to tortoise and autechre.

when i finalize lyrics for the remaining pieces, insofar as they will have lyrics, they will follow the outlines i've constructed, and none of them will be about relationships or, really, social relations of much of any sort. the isolated beatnik tracks are really discarded outtakes, strictly, and will appear in finalized forms as instrumentals, if they appear at all. a couple of the remaining pieces  are broadly philosophical (there's a song about how they should have killed aristotle and spared socrates), but most of them are commentaries on (then) contemporary political events.

the bottom line is that i have spent my entire life single, by choice. i don't write about love or relationships because i haven't experienced any, and i don't really have a lot of interest in walking down that path. and, a part of the reason that i don't listen to lyrical music is that i can't relate to much of it.

so, yes - there's what could be called an emo singer on a handful of the recordings, but it was not me. i've stated in the past that i'll let sean identify himself, if he'd like to. if that's your interest, he ought to be your focus, and not me. my lyrics are generally focused on political commentary in a more traditionally "punk" framework, although i might rarely dabble in beatnik poetry, as well. the remaining tracks are focused mostly on political commentary and abstract philosophy, as i age into my mid-20s, in the reconstruction.