Emo: Is it just a fashion?

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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?
     
    It's just a fad that people get all into to fit in and be cool kids, like everything else.
     
    Brittany said:
    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.
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    Like Brit said it is short for Emotional Hardcore music, and it includes hardcore instrumentals and screaming.
     
    Emo's just a sub-genre of music as defined above.
    I wasn't aware that "emo" was also a look.
    How could it be?
    Seriously, tell me.
    What does emo fashion look like?
     
    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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    Akinari said:
    I sure want to drop them in the middle of Africa and see how much then whine about it.
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    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...

    And as a rule for everone; no flames. Jabs, expressions of anger even are alright, but no *personal* attacks.
     
    I cried because that girl looked at me funny =(

    Haha, I'm a jerk, but not all emo music is too bad, the mainstream stuff is horrible.
     
    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
     
    Butterbutt said:
    I think rap contributes more to the decline =P
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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
     
    Akinari said:
    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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    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.
     
    Butterbutt said:
    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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    Then the emo would die out eventually after I teach them the right way to cut themselves... >>
     
    Akinari said:
    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!
     
    Butterbutt said:
    They would be crying too much, for they killed a thug yo!
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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... >>
     
    Akinari said:
    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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    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.
     
    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.
     
    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
     
    Dr.Linoone said:
    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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    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.... >>
     
    Akinari said:
    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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    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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