whats so wrong with being HAPPY?!
when did it become cool to be depressed?
sounds to me like teens these days are too lazy to do something about their problems and would rather just settle and wallow in their misery.
what do you think?
2006-09-20 15:48:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Emo. Short for emotional. Emo. A genre of punk rock. Emo. A dress code of tiny t-shirts and horn-rimmed glasses. Type the word "emo" into your average search engine and you'll get over three million results that will encompass nearly that many different opinions of what emo actually is. The general approach to the term is a lot like the approach to pornography, "I can't tell you exactly what it is, but I'll know it when I see (or hear) it."
The history of emo is somewhat less ambiguous than its current meaning. "Emo" music developed out of the D.C. punk scene in the '80s. In its original incarnation, emo was short for emocore, or emotional-hardcore. The name was applied to hardcore punk rock bands who distinguished themselves from their peers by adding an emotional component to their music, dealing with sadness and love and angst in their lyrics. The music was also characterized by particularly dramatic vocals which, at best, left the audience in an emotionally charged state, crying or screaming. These days, emo has been popularized and sent into the mainstream through bands like Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday and Saves the Day.
Emo music has even inspired its own subcultural style. Take your average Rites of Spring fan and you get someone who looks a lot like Weezer's Rivers Cuomo--nerdy glasses, vintage tees, cuffed jeans, Converse sneakers and slightly shrunken tops. Black hair and straight bangs, tight hoodies and thrift shop attire are also associated with emo. And while emo devotees are notoriously upfront about their feelings, instead of wearing their hearts on their sleeves, they tend to favor ironic slogans and band logos.
Lately, labeling someone as "emo" is something of a put-down, a stand-in for "overly emotional" or "melodramatic." The implication is that they are excessively moody and angsty, prone to crying jags and plagued by a love of bad poetry. Hot Topic even issued a patch that read, "cheer up, emo kid!" But for those who call themselves emo, the term means something more pure. At its core, emo is all about being upfront with your emotions. Or, as one "expert" defined it, "emo is like being Goth, but much less dark, much more Harry Potter." -- marni
2006-09-20 15:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by Misty 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is weird, my kid claims to be "emo", but she and her little friends are all posers. God forbid we tell them that though, they might go and "cut" themselves. It's just a phase, they can't accept that history repeats itself and that we have already been there, and done that, when we were mods, goths, punks and valley girls back in the hay days of the 80's and 90's. God help us with this whacked generation.
2006-09-21 05:35:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, I had no idea what an emo kid even was. Is this the equivalent to goth kids back in the 90's?
2006-09-21 01:32:50 · answer #3 · answered by nikki_butterfly777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of them don't even have "real" problems... emo kids will make stuff up to stay emo.
the emo kids in my town are all rich and have their parents buy them beater cars on purpose so it looks like they have it bad. They sit in groups at the coffee shop and all write in journals instead of talking to each other.
I find myself wanting to pull tricks like you do with little kids to get them to smile. "I got your nose!" or "Don't you dare smile... don't do it!"
I think that'd just make them want to slit their wrists, though.
2006-09-20 22:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by sarah_lynn 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I care.....
2006-09-20 22:49:37 · answer #5 · answered by CrazyCat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋