Emo is god-awful. How did a bunch of pretty-boy white kids wearing sweaters and crying about how their girlfriend left them (maybe they wouldn't have left if you HAD A PAIR) ever in a million years become associated with my crew - the beer-swilling, moshing, boot stomping, OI! chanting, mohawk and studded leather jacket guys? We beat the $h** out of you kids.. give us back our genre! The Warped Tour sucks because of kids like you. Do us all a favor and swallow a razor blade!
2007-01-02 19:24:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
What is called emo today was inspired by a few different sources.
What was known as "skater punk" 1980s (Descendants and others) probably inspired emo bands in the 1990s. Emo in the 90s wasn't very popular, even among punk fans. You also have to consider the indie rock sound, also from the 90s, when talking about today's emo. Mix all of those together and you begin to see how modern emo developed.
Overall, none of the things that I mentioned really sound like what is called emo today. The emo today is basically a newish form of pop-infused rock (I'll give it that much). Like most pop, it's popular with 13 year olds as well as college kids. Also, like most pop its days are numbered and there are few emo bands who will make a lasting impression on music.
I have to agree with your criticisms of emo. Some of mine are the exaggerated self-importance, whininess and sometimes utter incoherence of the lyrics; the weak-voiced singers and the almost utter lack of politics in the music. Real punk also has a political side. Emo rarely addresses politics which is reprehensible for a form of music that is supposed to represent punk in the political times in which we find ourselves in now.
By the way, even the wimpier skater-types that I hung out with in my punk circles of the early 1990s would have beaten up people like today's emo kids. Some of my ska people would have too (after relentlessly insulting them, of course).I won't even say what the real punks or hardcore kids would have done, I think you already know.
2007-01-02 20:17:25 · answer #1 · answered by lupin_1375 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emo-Core, or emotional hardcore, *was* a form of punk rock in the early-mid eighties. It came back for a brief period of time in the late 90's, (ie. At The Drive In).
The crap you hear on the radio today isn't emo. It is sappy pop crap.
2007-01-02 19:32:46 · answer #2 · answered by dzr0001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fashion.
Emo clothing is very similar to punk, except emo kids wear their pants tight as all hell. People saw a similarity to punk, so the two genres merged by mistake.
2007-01-02 19:40:03 · answer #3 · answered by villainL 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ooo lots of possibilities!! lol emo (the unique emo from the 80's) "I won't share you" "Paint a Vulgar image" "there's a easy that by no ability is going out" or "The boy with a thorn in his facet" all via The Smiths do not comprehend any goth rock: "Pressed in a e book" The Shins....i merely picked that one b/c i've got been listening to it lots punk: "Police & Thieves" "40 8 Hours" "London's Burning" The conflict...."Blitzkiried Bop" "Teenage Lobotomy" "I wanna be sedated" Ramones...."quite Vacant" "EMI" intercourse Pistols
2016-10-19 09:49:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea I agree, emo music is craptacular.
2007-01-02 19:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by I'm not a Gypsy!! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dude, u rock. that's true. EMO IS NOT PUNK!
2007-01-02 22:05:22 · answer #6 · answered by Taste the rainbow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mayeb its the funny clothes, that make you guys look alike.
2007-01-02 19:34:04 · answer #7 · answered by Akshun 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
omgg. u obviously dont know nething about emo. so shut up fagggg
2007-01-02 19:47:10 · answer #8 · answered by memorywillrust 4 · 0⤊ 6⤋