The "Emo" Thing

SirLemonhead

There's too much emo whine in this thread

Peared

What I find weird is that people are acting like this is something new. The clothes, make up, music and attitudes are just watered down americanised versions of things that were around up to 25 years ago. Its goth mixed with grunge. The old style goths look way way better though. Ah god be with the days, twas all fields etc

Am late 20s but threads like this make me feel 50. Still though..they have:my chemical sisters funeral blood soaked rage. We had:sisters of mercy. We so win.

omg am old and petty.

DarkJager

I wish my hair was Emo so it would cut itself...

Red Hand

You all make me feel so sad...

baztard

I'm an emo trapped in a goths body. You cant imagine how frustrating it is.

Duggy747

DarkJager wrote:

I wish my hair was Emo so it would cut itself...

Heh
http://www.thelivingroomstudio.com/images/LJpics/emo-lawn.jpg

I just don't like the whole thing in general. The entire music genre, especially Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance makes me want to get sick, the hair I find ridiculous (a lot of times dyed-black and gelled to the right side), tight-jeans, and godawful-coloured converse runners. Seriously, you're asking for trouble when you're a guy and you wear bright pink shoes.

I've met quite a lot of them over the past while, especially in Galway where it's swarming with them and frankly most of them annoyed the head outta me!! A case of over-indulgence of Family Guy & Monty Python movies, quoting them at the drop of a hat as if they have no other vocabulary!! It seems a lot of them, especially the ones I met, are spoilt bastards where mummy pays for their living while they go around talking as if they know everything-about-nothing and, suprise suprise, corporate America and the "murder for hunt of oil!", while being complete wasters at the same time!!

They ain't depressed people, but spending a few minutes with some of them will make you depressed!!

Creamy Goodness

Duggy747 wrote:

I just don't like the whole thing in general. The entire music genre, especially Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance makes me want to get sick, the hair I find ridiculous (a lot of times dyed-black and gelled to the right side), tight-jeans, and godawful-coloured converse runners. Seriously, you're asking for trouble when you're a guy and you wear bright pink shoes.

what kind of trouble?

do skinny jeans and converse hurt you seriously?

ohh and the bands you mentioned aren't emo - in the music sense - in the slightest.

Laslo

To all the Emos on here defending themselves - you WILL be embarrassed by your current behaviour when you get older. Of that you can be sure. So try not to get in the way of any cameras. Freaks.

Duggy747

Cremo wrote:

what kind of trouble?

Well, what trouble do you think a guy would get for wearing pink shoes casually, mortage payments?

Cremo wrote:

do skinny jeans and converse hurt you seriously?.

About as much as the way as knackers or smarmy cúnts' dress. And speaking of which, does my post really hurt YOU seriously?

Cremo wrote:

ohh and the bands you mentioned aren't emo - in the music sense - in the slightest.

What are they, Jazz? Saying they're not emo is like saying Boards.ie was found in the deepest jungles of Cambodia.

Creamy Goodness

Duggy747 wrote:

Well, what trouble do you think a guy would get for wearing pink shoes casually, mortage payments?

well considering about 90% aren't old enough to have a mortage no, i don't see anything wrong with someone - even guys - wearing pink.

Duggy747 wrote:

About as much as the way as knackers or smarmy cúnts' dress. And speaking of which, does my post really hurt YOU seriously?

nope.

Duggy747 wrote:

What are they, Jazz? Saying they're not emo is like saying Boards.ie was found in the deepest jungles of Cambodia.

well of course it boils down to what you think is and isn't emo music, to me emo music is the likes of:

at the drive-in
sparta
sunny day real estate
weezer
saves the day

all good bands who are what i'd consider emo music.

fall out boy and my chemical romance i'd consider them both manufactured pop punk bands for 14 year old girls, being into the band because the bassist and or singer is hot. they are basically artists who are like generic pop artists but can play instruments (although that can be debated too).

it's just this though i don't understand people say they hate emo's and hate knackers. i can sort of agree with knackers as they actually go out of their way to cause trouble, what do emo's do? generally any emo person i've met have been nice and actually more sounded than your regular folks.

ntlbell

Man this emo shi* is really just getting too much.

Why is Ireland turning into f*cking brighton, what the hell is going on in your lil emo home's?

I'd rather see the country fill up with striking shiney nike tracksuits,air max and dodgey peakced caps, at least their men than this girly ****. it has got to stop.

Think of the children please.

Give people an inch they take a mile, we decide to live and let live and be a bit more tollerant of utter nonsnse and what happens? all the men in ireland slip their co*k between their legs and start running around like twats from placebo, as a country we have gotten too tollerant of this bullsh|t

You're a guy, everytime you get out of the bed and think of putting on that f*cking make up remember that your IRISH and what that means, find your fecking wellies, and get on with it you c*nt.

Dragan

I would simlply point out that the muso's who are seeking to defend "emocore" ( think back to Fugazi and see where i'm coming with that one ) versus the modern day "emo" are fight a losing battle.

I will simply say the below is "emocore" , before someone decided that being sad and dressing in black is in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yud6TmNJWhY


and the below is modern "emo" incarnate. As you can see, a difference in style, image, sound.....etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY9TPTaN0Us

Robbo

I'm so emo I eat eyeliner and **** out razorblades.

Dragan

I wish my grass was emo, at least that way it would cut itself.

Canis Lupus

Laslo wrote:

To all the Emos on here defending themselves - you WILL be embarrassed by your current behaviour when you get older. Of that you can be sure. So try not to get in the way of any cameras. Freaks.

Roffle... Best post so far.

nice1franko

i thought emo was the new cool american word for goths... or is emo just what we used to call "cure heads"??

we were "ravers" xwork jeans yeah deadly buzz man ... wish i was around when you could be a mod or a punk.

so emo's are a new bunch of american wannabies then (no different to all the 8-18 year old wiggers I spose...)?

Duggy747

nice1franko wrote:

so emo's are a new bunch then? what music do they listen to?

Have you ever heard a cat being crushed by the weight of a fat shíte? Well, it's nothing like that but it is similiar in being absolute horrible.

The Bollox

I love South Park's take on Emo "you hafta dress all in black, listen to this music and hate everything in order to be a non-conformist"

Duggy747

The Bollox wrote:

I love South Park's take on Emo "you hafta dress all in black, listen to this music and hate everything in order to be a non-conformist"

Or that Emo-bashing music video on youtube (I'm sure someone posted a link of it already!)

"I'm an emo kid, non-conforming as can be.
You'd be non-conforming too if you looked just like me.
Paint on my nails and make-up on my face,
I'm almost emo enough to start shaving my legs."

Creamy Goodness

The Bollox wrote:

I love South Park's take on Emo "you hafta dress all in black, listen to this music and hate everything in order to be a non-conformist"

they were goths, were they not?

The Bollox

dunno, it was the same idea

JC 2K3

Cremo wrote:

like most appearances people take it way to far, emo is no exception either is skangerism

That pretty much sums it up.

Emos are no different to skangers, skangers are no different to D4s and D4s are no different to metalheads in the sense that they're all just conforming to some commercially promoted fad.

Personally, I feel free to lol at all of them.

Cremo wrote:

well of course it boils down to what you think is and isn't emo music, to me emo music is the likes of:

at the drive-in
sparta
sunny day real estate
weezer
saves the day

all good bands who are what i'd consider emo music.

I wouldn't consider At the Drive In, Sparta or Weezer to be emo. Emo is such a vague and undefined term that I don't even consider it a genre

tensecyclist

Duggy747 wrote:

Have you ever heard a cat being crushed by the weight of a fat shíte? Well, it's nothing like that but it is similiar in being absolute horrible.

What a sound!:eek:

thebaz

JC 2K3 wrote:

I wouldn't consider At the Drive In, Sparta or Weezer to be emo. Emo is such a vague and undefined term that I don't even consider it a genre

I agree , at the drive in ,are alternative harcore punk , and weezer geeky ...the killers would be more emo than either of them

Creamy Goodness

JC 2K3 wrote:

That pretty much sums it up.

Emos are no different to skangers, skangers are no different to D4s and D4s are no different to metalheads in the sense that they're all just conforming to some commercially promoted fad.

Personally, I feel free to lol at all of them.

that being said though i'd prefer the world to be full of emo's and d4's cause at least they don't go out just to cause havoc to people like the minority of skangers.

JC 2K3 wrote:

I wouldn't consider At the Drive In, Sparta or Weezer to be emo. Emo is such a vague and undefined term that I don't even consider it a genre

see this is the problem with the term emo as we both have different views on something that should be concrete, it really is just too vague and was twisted and distorted too much by people who don't have a clue really.

Plissken1

biko wrote:

Emo chicks are hot

Those ones are the guys !! :rolleyes:

phasers

most of my friends are emo

but they only turn at the weekend when we're in the vicinity of central bank/ temple bar
they're fantastic during the week, then come Saturday it's on with the eyeliner and crappy bands blasting from ipods
they squeal, they giggle and they wear stupid clothes
they talk about being "randum" and about how everyone hates them
they talk about being individual whilst buying the same Jack skellington hoodie as their friends

Creamy Goodness

phasers wrote:

they talk about being "randum" and about how everyone hates them

well tbh judging by some of the replies here, they ain't far wrong.

Plissken1

Yeah they all look the same, and they are all so miserable, and its all sooo been done before. They have just mutated into Gay Goths. If they didnt act so up themselves, they probably wouldnt get so much stick.

phasers

Cremo wrote:

well tbh judging by some of the replies here, they ain't far wrong.

I think they relish in it though
if people didn't give them attention they'd just be a load of saps in eyeliner
but because of media attention and stuff they have become a "subculture"

Yakult

Laslo wrote:

To all the Emos on here defending themselves - you WILL be embarrassed by your current behaviour when you get older. Of that you can be sure. So try not to get in the way of any cameras. Freaks.

It would be the other way around dumb****! their are 20 year olds on here bascily picking on a genre that doesnt do anything to them.
So go back to the gym you homo!

Also to the guy who said fall out boy and MCR, you really havent thought out your arguement seeing as you only referred to the 2 biggest, most commercialised bands out of "emo"

and maybe if you open your ears they arent emo. they basicly would be pop rock, with a "look". its like putting metallica into hair metal.

its fairly sad that you get annoyed if a guy wears pink. personally I have never seen any guy wear pink shoes and the only pink they wear would be a little bit on a t-shirt.

your coming off as jealous sorta, like they have more style? I dont know. Just get that vibe off you!

Duggy747

Plissken1 wrote:

Those ones are the guys !! :rolleyes:

Right, time for some daft pics!

Boy or girl?
http://buzznet-52.vo.llnwd.net/assets/users12/ellone/default/Emo_boy--large-msg-115503014184.jpg

Pfft!!:
http://www.freewebs.com/youdontknowemo/Ryan.jpg

Mmm-hmmm!:
http://lifeinservice.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/brian-emo-02.JPG

Good God what a pretentious picture:
http://kymieamuse.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/emo.jpg


http://www.thenemesis.de/img/emo.jpg

A true Emo:
http://taltos.pha.jhu.edu/~tamas/files/images/emu.jpg

Dragan

JC 2K3 wrote:

I wouldn't consider At the Drive In, Sparta or Weezer to be emo. Emo is such a vague and undefined term that I don't even consider it a genre

I don't know, all those bands would be second wave emocore to me, by way of Embrace and Beefeater etc.

Remember, it all started off as a hardcore spin off.

Plissken1

ntlbell wrote:

Man this emo shi* is really just getting too much.

Why is Ireland turning into f*cking brighton, what the hell is going on in your lil emo home's?

I'd rather see the country fill up with striking shiney nike tracksuits,air max and dodgey peakced caps, at least their men than this girly ****. it has got to stop.

Think of the children please.

Give people an inch they take a mile, we decide to live and let live and be a bit more tollerant of utter nonsnse and what happens? all the men in ireland slip their co*k between their legs and start running around like twats from placebo, as a country we have gotten too tollerant of this bullsh|t

You're a guy, everytime you get out of the bed and think of putting on that f*cking make up remember that your IRISH and what that means, find your fecking wellies, and get on with it you c*nt.[/QUOT


Brighton ?? ... try ****ing Croydon, the tracksuit and sovereign ring are still king in chavvy Ireland.

Dragan

R_H_C_P wrote:

So go back to the gym you homo!

Why would going to the gym make someone a homo?

And why would you consider being gay to be an insult to begin with?

Your contradictions are starting to show mate. :rolleyes:

Duggy747

R_H_C_P wrote:

Also to the guy who said fall out boy and MCR, you really havent thought out your arguement seeing as you only referred to the 2 biggest, most commercialised bands out of "emo

I knew that would invoke a reaction

R_H_C_P wrote:

and maybe if you open your ears they arent emo. they basicly would be pop rock, with a "look". its like putting metallica into hair metal.

Really, I'd rather not open my ears to let that in.

R_H_C_P wrote:

its fairly sad that you get annoyed if a guy wears pink. personally I have never seen any guy wear pink shoes and the only pink they wear would be a little bit on a t-shirt.

But I did, so ni-ner ni-ner ni-ner!

R_H_C_P wrote:

your coming off as jealous sorta, like they have more style? I dont know. Just get that vibe off you!

*puts back of hand on forehead* Oh God, the humanity of it all!! My secret is out, how I long to wear tight jeans, black tops with benign sayings on them, dye my hair black (no point really since my hair is already black) and gel my hair to one side. You're right, I'll just just throw my idea of originality and individualism out the window.

*Runs off to embrace Emo*

thebaz

Dragan wrote:

I don't know, all those bands would be second wave emocore to me, by way of Embrace and Beefeater etc.

Remember, it all started off as a hardcore spin off.

is that the oasis sounding embrace ??
i'm getting totally confused !!

next someone will say keane and u2 are emo !!

Dragan

thebaz wrote:

is that the oasis sounding embrace ??
i'm getting totally confused !!

Nope, the original Embrace, fronted by Ian Mckaye who would then go on to form Fugazi......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcaNBK2gw2Y

cichlid child

Mairt wrote:

Ok, probably because I've hit me ol' 40's, but I haven't a bleed'n clue what ''EMO'' mean's... Or AFRIAK (Or however its spelt)

hitting the 40,s soon myself but only 2 weeks ago gave my nephew a lift into town he had the emo thing going on (hair,cloths etc)when i asked him what it was all about he explained it,s the music and style that he,s into.He,s a well balanced nice yong gentleman and i don,t think he thinks he,s owed anything from life

Dragan

cichlid child wrote:

He,s a well balanced nice yong gentleman and i don,t think he thinks he,s owed anything from life

Everyone is different, and you can't really assume what someone's attitude will be based on appearance.

Threads like this can often lead you believe that many people here are highly judgemental etc but often times they are created in the heat of annoyance over some issue.

It's more humourous than anything else.

The Bollox

Duggy747 wrote:

A true Emo:
http://taltos.pha.jhu.edu/~tamas/files/images/emu.jpg

lol

Binomate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcSkq3inhA4

lul

Dragan

Binomate wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcSkq3inhA4

lul

Careful now, she will turn her face like Jesus did.

Shocking.

browler

Irn-Bru Goth Holiday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Dny-s27Dk

has me in stiches every time i see it on tv

Reku

R_H_C_P wrote:

but I dont go saying on like myspace etc. "I like to slit my wrists", "Im soooo depressed" basicly attention seeking and I dont wear make-up what ever ye think fits stereo-typical b/s!

Not entirely sure what defines "emo" these people are just attention-whoring twits IMO.

Reading more of this thread apparently I listen to a lot of "emo" music (I would've classed it as rock/pop but whatever), but then I listen to a lot of music regardless of genre, and in honesty I do practice self mutilation but I don't believe the world owes me a damned thing, I'm just unhappy and this is how I deal with it, have I given anything to the world to make it owe me? No! Like everyone else I've taken more than I gave back so I in fact owe the world. Don't have the "emo haircut" either, long hair that could get in my eyes/ears would just bug me.

phasers wrote:

most of my friends are emo

but they only turn at the weekend when we're in the vicinity of central bank/ temple bar
they're fantastic during the week, then come Saturday it's on with the eyeliner and crappy bands blasting from ipods
they squeal, they giggle and they wear stupid clothes
they talk about being "randum" and about how everyone hates them
they talk about being individual whilst buying the same Jack skellington hoodie as their friends

Thought the ones around the central bank were goths?
Well anyway I'm afraid your friends are probably in the subgroup I do find irritating then: "SHEEP!" (a.k.a. phoneys, posers, wannabes, etc...)
Don't care who they're trying to blend with but I just don't like people who only do stuff because others are doing it and they want to fit with the crowd. Gas thing is I can always spot the sheep in the flock no problem. Oh well, at least someday they might grow spines and legs, learn to stand on their own rather than continue their lives as but a mirror to those around them.... (PS my own sister sadly falls under the sheep classification but has thankfully began to outgrow it)

zuutroy

I like Jimmy Eat World. Am I an emu?

Terry

I used to cut myself every day when I was a tiling.
Can I be emo?

thelordofcheese

Duggy747 wrote:

Right, time for some daft pics!

This is the only emo pic you need

Binomate

Binomate wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcSkq3inhA4

lul

Thats why I don't like emo. Give me scangers any day over this.

Borneo Fnctn

I'm sick of hearing Emos say "He's not a REAL Emo. He's just a poser."

That is just trying to distance themselves from the stupid, stupid characteristics of emos.