Emo - please define for a no-nothign person

[Dubversion]

It's a very myspace kinda thing.

there might be a lot of emo-action on myspace, but it certainly predates myspace by a long long way, even in its most recent form

 

[milesy]

actually you're probably right. i guess there's emo, hip hop kids, generic grunge / rock kids, what else?

the-painfully-trendy-posh-teenage-girls.

 

[sojourner]

the-painfully-trendy-posh-teenage-girls.

Round our way it's limited to these ^^ and the emo/punk/metal kids


Actually scrub the posh bit out of the above, they ain't that in sane tellins!

 

[boing!]

hasn't emo pretty much just turned into a haircut these days?

 

[milesy]

i wish i had a haircut. all i've got is male pattern baldness.

 

[mysterygirl]

i'd say it's way less tribal than years ago.... dunno. what tribes are there today?

how picky do you want to be about your tribes? Dance, rock, pop, or emo / metal / punk or an individual group for each & every one of us?

Still but feeling a bit better about it now.

Still failing to see why the emo hatred though - I mean, there's always rivalry, but hatred doesn't seem to be too strong a word for some of what went on at Download this year. One guy dressed in his usual clothes & wandered the campsite for an hour, then dressed as an 'emo' & wandered ~ the 'emo' encountered some hard times. We were all there for the same reason, and to see the same bands..... Im showing my age again, aren't I.

 

[moose]

...and it's an excuse for ill-fitting slacks.

 

[Thora]

there might be a lot of emo-action on myspace, but it certainly predates myspace by a long long way, even in its most recent form

In its current form surely it's pretty much only about myspace and a haircut though?

 

[Rollem]

personally, i always get emo confused with elo

which is rilly sad

 

[Dubversion]

Still failing to see why the emo hatred though - I mean, there's always rivalry, but hatred doesn't seem to be too strong a word for some of what went on at Download this year. One guy dressed in his usual clothes & wandered the campsite for an hour, then dressed as an 'emo' & wandered ~ the 'emo' encountered some hard times. We were all there for the same reason, and to see the same bands..... Im showing my age again, aren't I.

you're acting like it's a new thing. What about the Smiths fan in a class full of metal kids? the goth in the shopping centre being chased by the local lads? The mod walking into the rocker's pub. same old same old.

 

[Dubversion]

In its current form surely it's pretty much only about myspace and a haircut though?

So LostProphets selling millions of albums passed you by? That sort of thing.

 

[moose]

(((ickle Dub))) Anything you want to share with the group?

 

[Dubversion]

(((ickle Dub))) Anything you want to share with the group?

nah! i looked like a metal kid when it was an issue, then a crusty/punk. The goth period happened when i was out of school and could look after myself

 

[bluestreak]

can't we just all be friends?

 

[milesy]

can't we just all be friends?

where's the fun in that?

 

[Hollis]

What about the Smiths fan in a class full of metal kids?

Generally I alway found it to be the Smiths fans taking the piss out the jitters.. sorry, metallers.

 

[kyser_soze]

Still failing to see why the emo hatred though - I mean, there's always rivalry, but hatred doesn't seem to be too strong a word for some of what went on at Download this year. One guy dressed in his usual clothes & wandered the campsite for an hour, then dressed as an 'emo' & wandered ~ the 'emo' encountered some hard times. We were all there for the same reason, and to see the same bands..... Im showing my age again, aren't I.

Because they wander around being whiny, self indulgent (and indulged) little pricks, with their 'sensitivity' and 'feeling the pain of the world' replacing righteous teen anger and rail against the system instincts?

Has the Emo outfit always been skinny school-ish tops/shirts and floppy fringe? Sounds like they take their inspiration from consumptive English poets like Byron...

 

[art of fact]

i see alot of girls in yuppie emo type wares these days, the emo haircut, big pearls, polka dots maybe, the earrings... its so hard to keep up

 

[bluestreak]

where's the fun in that?

i dunno. i'm just feeling really uh... well-disposed to everyone. i wonder what's wrong with me.

 

[milesy]

big pearls, polka dots maybe, the earrings...

i'd say that's more just trendy than emo.... the boundaries are getting too blurred.

i want lines to be drawn and rucks on brighton beach

 

[Kanda]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo

 

[milesy]

i dunno. i'm just feeling really uh... well-disposed to everyone. i wonder what's wrong with me.

<lobs brown-ale bottle at the hippy>

 

[art of fact]

i'd say that's more just trendy than emo.... the boundaries are getting too blurred.

i want lines to be drawn and rucks on brighton beach

yeah but they definately got that emo element of fashion in there... im not saying they are emo, just trendier with emo boyfriends... but i say bring the ruckus

 

[sojourner]

i see alot of girls in yuppie emo type wares these days, the emo haircut, big pearls, polka dots maybe, the earrings... its so hard to keep up

Ah apparently these are now known as 'scene kids'

edit to add, and they get on my girls wick big time as well, with their black nail varnish hehe, she says they should fuck off and get their own look

 

[milesy]

yeah but they definately got that emo element of fashion in there... im not saying they are emo, just trendier with emo boyfriends... but i say bring the ruckus

first we need to go to the cinema and slash the seats.

 

[Thora]

So LostProphets selling millions of albums passed you by? That sort of thing.

Well excuse me! Is there an emo kid inside you just struggling to get out?

 

[secretsquirrel]

check out these for some emusement

http://www.dobi.nu/emo/

www.emogame.com

I really like the t-shirts that link from that site - does that mean I'm emo?!

 

[bluestreak]

<lobs brown-ale bottle at the hippy>

nope, hasn't worked. i'm sure i can even think of a kind word for scene girls if i really tried.

 

[Hollis]

bluestreak - would you consider yourself to be an "emo" kid?

 

[secretsquirrel]

Btw it seems like all the emo kids down in Devon hang around outside Tescos trying to look misplaced and misbegotten. They just look a bit crap really. And many of them are far too well nourished to successfully pull off that starving tortured artist in a garret look.