Unintelligible Shouting

One thing that really irritates me is unintelligible shouting and/or screaming. That's one reason I've never been able to listen to all-out screamo music. I can handle songs where there's maybe a line or two that are screamed, as long as most of the song is actual melody, but anything where it's just yelling and no understandable words annoys me. The music matters, yes, but the lyrics are a very important part of the song too. If I can't understand them, I probably don't wanna hear the song.

Lately there seems to have been an increase in unintelligible shouting when I'm around. It's quite frustrating. My little brothers, for example, seem to spend most of their afternoons shouting about some video game or another. (I spend this time in my room, pretending that music will make them go away. Usually, it doesn't work.)

The next-door neighbors, twin eighth-grade boys, spend an awful lot of time in their backyard shouting unintelligibly, although, really, I can't usually tell whether it's unintelligible because of the volume or because of the fact that there are no words to understand. It may well just be shrieking.

My parents tend to shout unintelligible things, too...or maybe it's just that they're speaking to me loudly and I'm tuning them out. *innocent shrug* The freshmen on the bus tend to scream things that are probably just as well not being understandable, because the rare shout that actually makes sense is usually obscene and annoying. My ex-boyfriend shouted something unintelligible at his friend as he was leaving the dance I mentioned Friday night, which is weird because I don't remember him being a shouter. A senior in the hallway recently shouted something from right behind me. I completely failed to understand what he said, but apparently his friend by the stairwell got it, because he reacted to something. All I got out of it was a headache.

As I write this, my brother is shouting something in the other room. The only word I've caught is "cave," which 1) amuses me far more than it should (*cough*AF and CJ*cough*) and 2) means he's playing that stupid shoot-em-up game again, because that's usually what he's playing when he's screaming about caves. I am quite sick of the shouting.

And now, in a somewhat ironic acknowledgement of my tirade against shouting, I present "Breathe Into Me" by RED, which is a really, really excellent song that has been stuck in my head all day. It's also about as screamo as I get. (In my defense, the version I have is somewhat less scream-y than the one on YouTube. Either way, it's still not hard-core screamo.)

~Bex