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| squirrelly |
Who bitch and rant and rave about "emo" and "scene" kids but really secretly think that they sorta look kinda hot (don't deny it, we know it's true, or you wouldn't be bitching that they don't pay attention to you) and in fact, the only reason why you really have a problem with the emo girls is that you keep getting denied, and as well for those of you who think the whole she-bang (by she-bang I mean the "scene" itself and the "scene" of emo-haters) is boring, pathetic, and bull, I give you this amazing little piece of writing:
"I wonder when people will realize that the "scene" has become homogeneous. It's full of 14 year old girls with uneven bangs, black and white striped shirts, and tattered low-top black Chuck Taylor?s, who swoon over homosexual kissing and pathetic whiny lyrics and overuse the symbols.
Their favorite quote is, invariably, "The truth is you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt" because it like, so totally describes their relationship with that one HAWT sophomore who totally ripped their hearts out when they were like, SO in love with him.
Their favorite type of music is, of course, "emo, screamo, and hardcore", three terms which, in their minds, invariably include the bands Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, and Hawthorne Heights.
Their AIM screennames often include x's, the words "electrikk", "disaster", or some play on their favorite song from their favorite band, you know, the one they saw on MTV like a couple times, but shouldn't be on MTV because they're like, way too emo for that.
They take hundreds of black and white pictures with way too much contrast of themselves looking plaintively down at the ground, pointing a gun made of their fingers at their heads, or kissing the camera while displaying their expert application of lip gloss around their labret piercing and the thick dark eyeliner that circles their eyes.
They embrace the "dork" that is inside their polished, fashionable exteriors by writing in their LiveJournals or Xangas about how they and their friends had an 'N Sync sing-a-long at one of their sleepovers because, remember, 'N Sync is soooo not popular anymore and they like, sooo wouldn't follow any of the fads of today, so they embrace the fads of yesterday.
They adore "retro fashion", meaning anything from the 80's, because they totally used to wear neon colors and big beaded bracelets, even though they were born in, at the earliest, 1988 and remember jack about the fashion and culture of the 80's.
It's full of "emo boys" who often are difficult to differentiate from "emo girls", who have meaningless tattoos even though they're 15, smoke a lot of cigarettes, drink a lot of hard liquor, and are in some ty band that plays a couple of gigs in someone's basement because they're "too cool to go mainstream" when really, they just suck.
They weigh roughly 90 pounds, wear girls' jeans that hug their asses in just the right places, belts buckled somewhere around the side of their right leg, tight striped 80's style polo shirts or band t-shirts, and skater shoes, even though they don't skate because that's soooo lame.
They write awful poetry about the dark abyss of their souls and how the gun is pointed at their heads, the trigger poised to blast away the bloody memories of a failed romance. They cried when Blink-182 broke up, and they have a secret obsession with Avril Lavigne because, like, she really IS kinda hot even though her music totally sucks.
They spend more time at the mirror than their female counterparts do, making sure that the long black shock of hair at the front of their heads lies covering one eye just so, that their lip piercing is perfectly placed so that it looks hot when they kiss other boys, that their pants are the right degree of tightness so as not to exude gayness.
Emo boys and girls often use the suffix "Xcore" to describe themselves, using a number of adjectives or nouns to accomplish this task. This is a play off hardcore music, or "hXc". Some of these descriptive words include "fashionXcore", "retroXcore", or even "yournamehereXcore."
This way of speaking is retarded or nonsensical to everyone else except those "in the scene", but it totally doesn't matter because they're too nonconformistXcore for anyone to truly understand their "scene".
They couldn't name a Sunny Day Real Estate or Rites of Spring song if it came up and bit them on their Gap Jeans-clad asses, and they claim to like the Smiths because Jesse Lacey of Brand New said they were cool.
Sure, they listen to some new "hardcore" bands, but they're all pretty much the same five bands:
1. Taking Back Sunday
2. Senses Fail
3. Thrice
4. Hawthorne Heights
5. Story of the Year
To these promising young firecrackers, music takes a backseat to fashion in their scene of choice.
Emo girls just want to kiss emo boys, emo boys just want to kiss other emo boys, and they all want to wear tight pants and take lots of pictures of themselves. End of story. Because honestly? It's electrikk!"
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| mezzir |
:haha:
excellent post
heh
and its annoying though, cause one of my best friends is a total emo kid, but not in any of the bad way
he has bad luck with girls, has the hair thing kinda down, and sometimes dresses kinda emo-ish
mostly just trendy though as for the fashion (no thick glasses or any of that though)
but he's also a sick athlete, a really chill guy, and actually listened to the smiths and like that even before it was mentioned by whatshisface lacey or connor oburst of w/e those guys like these days
idk, i'm not really trying to say emo's a good thing, but more like bashing on emo is like bashing on techno, with all its untz-untz-untz
and squirrelly, props to the sunny day real esate reference if you wrote that. hell, at times i'd call myself emo. i listen to dashboard on occasion. there are a few taking back sunday songs i rather like (although one of the lead singers' side projects/newer band, straylight run, i think is way better), and hell, i've even seen jimmy eat world live. does that make me a bad person, or an emo kid?
that, i dress in loose jeans and a ratty t-shirt almost every day, i wyle out when i go to shows, and i personally can't stand the recent 80's newwave comeback
i just think people need to separate the lifestyle from the music
just like listening to trance doesn't mean you're an e-tard and have a spare pair of glowsticks in your back pocket at all times, listening to emo doesn't mean you're a whiney bitch. frankly, i think a lot of people pass over the whole genre because of their disgust with the culture, and fail to take the time to appreciate some damn good musicians
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| basd |
| Can't wait for this fad to come over to Europe / Holland in particular. |
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| squirrelly |
No, totally, I agree, there are a lot of talented musicians. I like Taking Back Sunday actually, and I've seen SOTY live. Some really great talent (i.e. Acceptance, From First to Last, The Killers, House of Fools, 30 Seconds to Mars etc etc... those are all new-ish bands, I'm not going to go into older bands that CLEARLY have talent, we're just discussing the NEW emo scene) has erupted, but some really ty bands (i.e. Thrice, As I Lay Dying, Everytime I die, UnderOath, Atreyu... actually anything that has "death, die, or dying" or "bleeding, bleed, bled" in the band name, Funeral For a Friend, etc etc) have made the wave for some strange reason. Do these people not have ears? Seriously.
And this fad that's going on is ridiculous. It's like "hmm... what's the best way to up an outfit today? Oh, I know! I'll wear a dress with jeans, some big ass cowboy boots, and a load of jewelry to top it all off!" What the is that? I don't even know what half of these people look like because their damn hair is covering their faces. |
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| squirrelly |
Oh yes, and because this will most likely erupt into a myspace bitchfest again (like it always does) and this picture is actually kind of relevant to my first post on the terms of people and their pictures, I give you all this to laugh at as well:
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| mezzir |
:haha::haha::haha:
squirrelly...you're my new favorite ta |
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| teegee |
i'm a self-acknowledged emo boy. my friends know it, my girl knows it, even my family in' knows it.
you can like the music and be a sensitive guy who tends to wear his feelings on his sleeve (as i do) and legitimately call yourself emo.
the thing is, though, when i tell people what kind of music i listen to, or when somebody gives me for it, there's a person who invariably says "funny, you don't look emo." maybe the blond hair sets it off, maybe the lack of eyeliner or painted nails, maybe it's the american eagle pants.
and thats exactly the thing - people hate on emo kids because they see the fashion side of it, presumably never even having heard the music.
there's some emo kids out there who listen to electronica and probably dress better and like girls more than some of the haters do.
all im saying is...i dont even know. dont judge people by their musical tastes or something? it's late.
edit: got it - hating on fashion sense is one thing... hating on music taste is another altogether. |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by teegee
i'm a self-acknowledged emo boy. my friends know it, my girl knows it, even my family in' knows it. |
amen to that bro |
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| Clovis86 |
| We have been squirelled... |
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| squirrelly |
| quote: | Originally posted by teegee
edit: got it - hating on fashion sense is one thing... hating on music taste is another altogether. |
Good, glad you got it. I'm not hating on the music all together (unless it was the previously mentioned bands that include death dying die bleed bled bleeing in their band names), I'm hating on the so-called "fashion" side of it. To be honest, "emo" music has been around for a hella long time... it just suddenly turned into some massive fad. |
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| mezzir |
[QUOTE]Originally posted by squirrelly
Good, glad you got it. I'm not hating on the music all together (unless it was the previously mentioned bands that include death dying die bleed bled bleeing in their band names), I'm hating on the so-called "fashion" side of it. To be honest, "emo" music has been around for a hella long time... it just suddenly turned into some massive fad. [/QUOTE
ooooh the irony :tongue2
man, now its popular. i don't like it anymore.
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue:
see, they got their minds in the right place...almost
they just need to like good bands instead of unpopular ones :p
cause there's one hell of a difference |
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