Emos

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This is emo:

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I don't know what the word means in the context of modern times. It seems that these days, it's generally used to refer to social outcasts of all kinds, no matter what subculture they do or do not associate with. I imagine that real emo music still exists, but there's also a lot of pop music that's inexplicably called "emo".

Allrighty then.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daED2S9TmGM[/youtube]

Oh, and I should add:

Personally, I agree with what Ian MacKaye said about emocore in 1986:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdh0Qm_5A0&NR=1[/youtube]

if Ian said it, it's good enough for me.

my 14 year old cousin just started dressing emo. dyed her hair black and got her some ripped jeans. it's funny cause the jeans were PRE-ripped, meaning they were ripped at the factory instead of by her. it just made me laugh, cause pre-ripped jeans were the automatic sign of the poser back when i was younger and they still are today.

in seriousness though, i'm disturbed at how much i fit the emo stereotype. i wear glasses, i'm rather effeminate, i wear black nail polish and Chuck Taylors, i'm obsessed with old school Nintendo, The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies. my favorite music is either heavy metal or Motown though. guess people aren't easily pegged are they?

Yeah, seriously. I probably look "emo" on some days because I'm into punk and metal, and I'm sort of accidentally Goth. If you combine a punk look with a Goth look, you get something like the current "emo" style, I guess. That's why it comes in handy to have distinctively non-emo things like cowboy boots, aviator shades, a denim jacket with the sleeves ripped off . . . Although I wouldn't be surprised if any of those things mysteriously became "emo" one day, unbeknownst to me.

The definition of emo keeps changing about every 10 minutes, so I can't really comment on them.

yea "emo" seems to keep doing that. co-opting normal things into the look. it's certainly one of the most parasitic trends as of late.

and you're right, which is why it's handy i have a nice leather jacket, leather shoes, some dress shirts, and contact lenses. i put all that on my friends don't even recognize me.

...Waitwait. Glasses are emo?

Oh, wow. I guess I cut myself because I'm nearsighted now. Ahaha.

depends on the kind of glasses. the big black blocky Janeane Garafolo glasses? those're emo.

There's a clique in school with an impossible-to-pinpoint name and I was considering it today, until I pulled myself together and remembered that it's such a deprecating thing to do that will make matters worse. Stereotypes are disastrous and encage the individual which limits potential happiness greatly.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4bLMd0avU[/youtube]

I used to be emo without realizing it.

From the ages of 14 to 17, I had a serious problem with self-mutilation that eventually landed me in crisis rehabilitation. Thing is, I wasn't doing it for attention. I was doing it because I wanted to feel anything, even if it was physical pain.

I still dress on the emo side occasionally, but I'm slowly growing out of it. I think at this point in my life, the best word to describe me is "hipster".

[Yes, I am the stereotypical messy-haired college kid who wears a leather jacket, smokes foreign cigarettes, and walks around with a copy of Jack Kerouac's journals under my arm. And I'm a girl, by the way. Don't judge me.]

Emos are mostly nice people unlike most chavs.

People label me as emo or scene sometimes, but I'm not. I don't like being labelled anyway, I'm not a can of soup,lolllll. I'm just me.

Emos on the whole, are really nice people.

Whereas every chav or gang member I come across so far, are really really nasty to me and aggressive.

...Maybe so, but I just can't get past the whole My Chemical Romance thing. *shakes head* I can't see what is good about that band, I'm sorry. I just can't stand them. I would have probably got called emo in school these days, I used to get called goth but I wasn't. I did have dyed black (and occasionally red) hair, a long black coat, platform boots, etc - but it wasn't like gothy stuff. In my opinion. I dunno, I was just doing my own thing - the platform boots had more to do with being short and having lots of 6 foot tall friends... I have also cut myself, but that's a long time after school, and stopped when I was diagnosed, funnily enough.

Anyway, yeah - My Chemical Romance. Is that, like, a qualification to be an emo? Because I really can't think of a legitimate reason for them being so popular. I just don't get it at all. People get so annoyed when I call them overrated! It's lots of fun...

The whole emo fad just seems really, really stupid. Crappy music, crappy poetry, crappy clothes, I'm just so sick of the whole damn issue.

It's one thing entirely if you're a kid and just messing around, but I see emos at college all the time. I mean, we're adults.