Just like every other genre of music, it's not all about one thing, it covers everything.
Personally I don't care for emo music, just beacuse there's only one band that's ever caught my interest. I wouldn't say I hate it or all the 'trendfollowers' though.
You don't hate the music you've heard though do you? You hate anything even associated with the word "emo" despite the fact that it might not be the kind of music you hate, purely because you have a very wrong misconception.
Just like people who don't listen to hip hop because they think it's all superficial.
How can you sanely claim to hate fans of a music genre? You don't even know all of them. Metal has some pretty ****ing idiotic followers. Have you seen the amount of people who say they like to go to concerts to fight, metal concerts? Not all emo fans act the same way, just like I don't go to concerts to fight, I listen to metal.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and based on the evidence you've provided, you just hate something you simply do not understand for no justifiable reason and with such a closed-mind that it begs the question: If you know you're wrong, why continue to do it?
I personally hate Emo with a passion. It's essentially a bunch of 20-something guys whining about how their girlfriends dumped them and how their lives are soooo bad. Bah, crap. All of it.
I wish people could learn to be more individualistic, listen to what they want, and not conform to some dress code.
Case in point, I drove into Pawn America this afternoon BLASTING Arch Enemy's "Wages of Sin", wearin' a Star Wars shirt, camo cargos and some Nikes. As I was checking out, I was talking to the clerk, whom I know, about the new Chimaira album. What was it that I purchased? "Taken" on DVD, a "Meatballs" DVD..Fiona ****ing Apple and..wait for it..Ben Folds Five CD's. I also saw "March of the Penguins" ysterday.
Add it up. A goddamn penguin movie, which I liked, Arch Enemy, Fiona Apple, Ben Folds Five, Star Wars? What's my label?
See where I'm going with this..? People aren't defined by their music or dress, and while it may be disconcerning to some, knowing that kids are trendwhores, it's just kids being kids. Trends come and go, and yeah, they segregate themselves, but instead of putting them down, just remember that we were all pretty much in the same boat at one point in time, because you can't tell me that you never dressed DOWN for a social event to be different..or your mother let you wear rags when you visited Grandma as a kid on Christmas. You wanted to look nice, like everyone else. Why? Because you probably felt more comfortable.
Kids just want to fit in, and don't realize the value and importance of individualism. If they're comfortable where they are..great..if not..they'll eventually find themselves.
Just live your own life, man.
Last edited by Cory Chaos on Aug 21st, 2005 at 02:51 AM
Oh no, I loath the Emo that I have heard. But I'm just going By what I've heard and seen. I used to Feel The same way about Rap and Hip Hop, I thought it was all Gangstas Talking about Cars and Hoes...But then I started listening to other stuff that wasnt on MTV...But i dunno, I' closed minded when it comes to Emo. Once I've established that I hate something its hard for me to Go back.
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I know what you mean, I get the weirdest looks when I tell people I listen to NWA or the Grateful Dead and I'm wearing a Slayer shirt and a Trench Coat with Long black Hair.
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wow you're such an individual... you show them emo kids!
i love all the people saying 'it's all whining about your girlfriend' - it just proves you actually know nothing about emo and just hate the pop-punk crap that passes for emo on mtv now
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try Fugazi or Saetia...
both fall under the massive emo umbrella
but i'd suggest you stop mocking the 'emo style' since it just makes you sound like a hypocrite, what with you being the poster-boy for metal 'fashion'-genericism
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It's also coming from someone extremely closed-minded. Like most people.
The reason I don't like emo is because I've heard none that I like, unless you count Jimmy Eat World. If I heard emo I liked, I wouldn't deny liking it because it's called emo.
I like Fugazi and I've never even considered them emo.
It's not, is it? I go to school with roughly 30 Emo kids all of which cling on to me and my friends like a lifeline. Everything I have EVER heard of theirs follows the principle of some whiney guy crying about something or another. Usually a relationship.
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Aug 20th, 2005 08:53 PM
Most people cannot beleive that I used to listen to what I did. My ex-girlfriend almost died when she found a Shadows Fall CD under my TV. 
