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seriously. fuck off piano in a bunch of emo-y songs. I cannot stand it. This song would be ridiculously scary, albeit a little cheesy, without the piano, but they just need to include it. I don't get it, what's the appeal? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to7Ys8S45CM

You're right that the piano in this song is fairly poorly done but I can see what they were trying to do with it. Piano sounds can be very scary in their own rights. The examples that springs immediately to mind is Kreng's L'Autopsie Phénoménale De Dieu. Organ music can also be effective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmlBtbZBvfg

I would argue that the Piano is the only instrument quite capable of producing a sound that I would describe as 'chilling'. In that example, yeah, not great, but when done correctly it can be well creepy.

Ooh. Just like rock, only he's trying to shout softly. What a fascinating genre.

I'd be guessing that they use the piano because they can find people to play it. Every amateur kid and his dog is capable of playing a $20 keyboard in his garage. Plus thanks to the innovation and massive boom of the Piano at the time of the Classical Period, it now tends to be involved in every genre that it can be involved in (which is just about short of death metal... and even then I'm sure you could find an example of it).
EDIT: Additionally, people write for what is standard, as opposed to what sounds good. Numerous pieces will never make good use of half of the instruments in them, and yet they're just there because someone before them had the same instrumentation and now if you don't have that you get instantly shunned.

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Every amateur kid and his dog is capable of playing a $20 keyboard in his garage.

Uh, I would strongly disagree. Before they met me, a lot of my friends didn't even know where middle C was.

ＭＡＸＸＸＯＮ wrote:

Every amateur kid and his dog is capable of playing a $20 keyboard in his garage.

Uh, I would strongly disagree. Before they met me, a lot of my friends didn't even know where middle C was.

... this is obviously hyperbole. Or do you know a lot of piano playing dogs?

hairscapades wrote:

ＭＡＸＸＸＯＮ wrote:

Every amateur kid and his dog is capable of playing a $20 keyboard in his garage.

Uh, I would strongly disagree. Before they met me, a lot of my friends didn't even know where middle C was.

... this is obviously hyperbole. Or do you know a lot of piano playing dogs?

I know it was hyperbole but I interpreted him as saying that it's easy to play piano. It most certainly is not :(

hairscapades wrote:

ＭＡＸＸＸＯＮ wrote:

Every amateur kid and his dog is capable of playing a $20 keyboard in his garage.

Uh, I would strongly disagree. Before they met me, a lot of my friends didn't even know where middle C was.

... this is obviously hyperbole. Or do you know a lot of piano playing dogs?

I know I do! :DDD

ＭＡＸＸＸＯＮ wrote:I know it was hyperbole but I interpreted him as saying that it's easy to play piano. It most certainly is not :(

The piano itself is one of the easiest instruments to learn and play at a basic level. You don't need to be able to do some weird thing with your lips to get the reed to work, the finger contortions are minimal and the sheet music is intuitive at the beginning. This is part of the reason there are so many female keyboardists that are mostly there to look good.