Emo: Is it just a fashion?

Started by Chase Leader December 11th, 2005 2:54 PM
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The more I think about it the more it makes sense, Emo has never been a style of music more or less it has been a "fashion statement". Think about it, just try and define Emo, wait its not possible.

Am I wrong on this, what do you think?

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Emo- Short for Emocore, or Emotional Hardcore, which is what original Emo bands in the 80's-early 90's would call themselves. As Emo bands evolved through the 90's, many bands picked up Pop-Punk elements, and weakened or sometimes completely dropped the hardcore element. Although most bands would let up on the hardcore instrumentals, some would still scream during songs.
Like Brit said it is short for Emotional Hardcore music, and it includes hardcore instrumentals and screaming.
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Emo - A deluded subculture of the early 21st century filled with superficial or stereotypical teenagers usually associated with horrendous, tedious, and unecessary whining, shallow, pseudo-gothic and repetitive poetry and lyrics, a useless and dubious fashion brought up as "scene", and finally, a failed mainstream music genre that has become popular through fads, seen pitifully and lividly by music connoisseurs and some critics. Emo is a by product by the misguided angst of the teenagers of the 21st Century who are so ungrateful of what they have. I sure want to drop them in the middle of Africa and see how much then whine about it.

In short, emo is just something that attention-seeking teenagers want to do and think is cool nowadays.

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I sure want to drop them in the middle of Africa and see how much then whine about it.
Come on, you know that wouldn't affect them. They can't feel anything, they're just a living corpse who hasn't found the blackness yet, after all...

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Ah I've nothing against some emo music. It's the mainstream ones, yes. The lyrics... they're just the same message in different wording. And I wonder sometimes how people enjoy this... so then I just assume that my generation has become degenerates and 20 years from now, man will come up and pinpoint this era as the time mankind has declined. :D

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I think rap contributes more to the decline =P
True to that, but natural selection prefers more to the individuals that are naturally fit. I can't really imagine an emo kid against a gangsta because by rule of natural selection, the gangsta would kill the emo kid and therefore, exterminating the whole emo population. :D

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True to that, but natural selection prefers more to the individuals that are naturally fit. I can't really imagine an emo kid against a gangsta because by rule of natural selection, the gangsta would kill the emo kid and therefore, exterminating the whole emo population. :D
I disagree, the gangsta would trip over their clothes 15 sizes too big, while the emo in his tight clothes could vanquish him with his self-mutilation instruments.
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I disagree, the gangsta would trip over their clothes 15 sizes too big, while the emo in his tight clothes could vanquish him with his self-mutilation instruments.
Then the emo would die out eventually after I teach them the right way to cut themselves... >>

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They would be crying too much, for they killed a thug yo!
More like "I killed my homie-G so now I'm going to write more horrible semi-gothic poetry so that the world shall feel my pain, woe is me..."

Sometimes, I just don't understand why they want attention so badly... >>

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More like "I killed my homie-G so now I'm going to write more horrible semi-gothic poetry so that the world shall feel my pain, woe is me..."

Sometimes, I just don't understand why they want attention so badly... >>
Because everyone wants attention, some just are too insecure to accept themselves for what they are, so they pretend to be some sad little kid so people will care.
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Sure but this kind of attention is sometimes annoying. They go "Oh, I'm going to end it soon" or "You won't see me tomorrow and you'll be sorry!" in that little moppy voice of theirs even though it's clear as day that I'm not their friend and I'm ignoring them because the teacher is giving the lecture about Emily Dickinson... and guess what? They're still there. Still there to give me 50 minutes worth of their whining. Makes me want to actually help them kill themselves. But too bad I still value my freedom.

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I think emo is a fashion, but a widespread one, and a fad that will gradually go away, like (almost)all fads do, and most likely fed and abandoned by people who cant see what they are in society, and kept in memories by people who really dig it

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I think emo is a fashion, but a widespread one, and a fad that will gradually go away, like (almost)all fads do, and most likely fed and abandoned by people who cant see what they are in society, and kept in memories by people who really dig it
well I am certainly waiting for it to fade... (any minute now)

But what makes me happy is that it's a fad. 10 years from now, the emo haircut will be regarded as the mullet of the early 21st century... the equivalent of the rat-tail.... >>

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well I am certainly waiting for it to fade... (any minute now)

But what makes me happy is that it's a fad. 10 years from now, the emo haircut will be regarded as the mullet of the early 21st century... the equivalent of the rat-tail.... >>
yeah, the bad part is that some people will keep it and strenghten it, seeing someone who tells you creepy stuff and says undeciphrable crap only they understand is not easy to ignore (I have a now emo former friend)

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yeah, the bad part is that some people will keep it and strenghten it, seeing someone who tells you creepy stuff and says undeciphrable crap only they understand is not easy to ignore (I have a now emo former friend)
Yeah, they say all these "sublime" crap about how they're going to end their lives while my patience is being tested... I never whine about emos until they actually get into my nerves... but they do so 110% of the time. They make my blood boil especially the mainstream shallow crap.

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Yeah, they say all these "sublime" crap about how they're going to end their lives while my patience is being tested... I never whine about emos until they actually get into my nerves... but they do so 110% of the time. They make my blood boil especially the mainstream shallow crap.
yeah, that emo guy ruined a party I had once, he started making calls, talling us the definition of something, speaking alone, and of course, making up 110 ways to kill himself, we ended up locking my room so he couldnt get in and spoil the rest of the night, I can't believe he used to be my friend

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Those are goths.

Emos cry like there's no tomorrow. They cry about everything useless.
Where I live, there's no difference between emos and goths...they've morphed together and created a new and frightening breed of person.

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Emo is a subgenre of hardcore punk music. Use of the term (and which musicians should be so classified) has been the subject of much debate.

In its original incarnation, the term "emo" was used to describe the music of the mid-1980s DC scene and its associated bands. In later years, the term "emocore", short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the DC scene and some of the regional scenes that spawned from it. The term "emo" was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and literally emotional during performances. The most recognizable names of the period included Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Grey Matter, Fire Party and slightly later, Moss Icon. The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s.
Emo was once a real genre of music. Emo is dead. I love Grey Matter and Moss Icon. Those guys are great. I do like some of the new stuff. MCR and The Used (now labeled 'emo' by the 12-year-old girls who like them not for the music but because 'bert n gerard r hawt lolz im so awsum! look at my aolspeek!11111oneeleventyfortytwo111!!!'). But those guys aren't even remotely like old emo in the first place.
One thing for everyone who is emo in the new sense of the word because it's 'cool'...quit whining...some people actually have problems in their life worth whining about.
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Emo
We want to be different so we'll try this emo thing, which is like the new goth except the old "goth" is still around so it's just stupid. And there's millions of us emo kids but when someone makes fun of them they get pissy and complain that no one "understands" them. Then they'll go home and listen to emo music, which is the same thing as pop music except it has lyrics about being sad. Now, there's nothing wrong with sad lyrics, but it's the fact that they're oh so simple: "I'M NOT OOOOOOKKAAAAYYY I PROOMISSE". Oh, how moving. You should win the award for "lyrics-that-any-bored-12-year-old-can-write-but-YOU-cashed-in-on-it-cause-it's-the-flavor-of-the-month."

/rant.
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