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[ashlierae__x]

I've noticed that alot more people are trying to be "emo". It kind of makes me mad. They are taking it from being a way of life to a fashion show. They are dressing the way we dress but when you go to talk to them and are like " oh i got tickets to see rise against in concert. they are so swank" they look at you with like 3 questions on their mind. What's swank. Who's rise against. Why are you talking to me? It just makes me mad. Emo is a way of life for some people. It's short for emotional. I am. Depressed and sad all day long. I don't choose to be. I just am.
I just wondered If This Makes anyone else mad or am I alone on this one?

Not only w/ emo with anything. Everyone turns anything into a fashion show.

[*mipadi*]

Emotion's not short for "emotion"; it's short for "emotive hardcore". It's really a genre of music, not a lifestyle. People act all depressed due to the fact that the music is most often sad, but I hardly think it constitutes a lifestyle.

I don't see the difference between a non-emo fan dressing "emo" and an emo fan dressing "emo". Why? Because they're both ridiculous. Record labels of today have pandered and pushed and marketed emo so that it's trendy and readily consumed by the public, resulting in a clothing trend based on the emo musicians.

Now I hate when people say that, "Oh, that emo, that's not really emo, this is emo" and provide a laundry list of examples of what they think is emo, but let's be honest: a lot of today's emo music is vastly different from the emo that sprang out of the Washington, D.C. hardcore punk scene of the 1980s. Go back to the late 80s and early 90s and take a look at emo bands like Rites of Spring, Embrace, Texas is the Reason, and Sunny Day Real Estate. Those guys focused on the music, the passion of their words--not their style of hair or dress.

So, to be honest, I don't buy into this whole "I listen to emo so it's okay if I dress that way, but he/she can't because she's not emo" because it's all a bunch of crap. Emo is music, not a lifestyle. In my opinion, anyone who dresses to be "emo" is just ripping off a trend, whether they are a fan or not.

[*disco infiltrator*]

Emotion's not short for "emotion"; it's short for "emotive hardcore". It's really a genre of music, not a lifestyle. People act all depressed due to the fact that the music is most often sad, but I hardly think it constitutes a lifestyle.

I don't see the difference between a non-emo fan dressing "emo" and an emo fan dressing "emo". Why? Because they're both ridiculous. Record labels of today have pandered and pushed and marketed emo so that it's trendy and readily consumed by the public, resulting in a clothing trend based on the emo musicians.

Now I hate when people say that, "Oh, that emo, that's not really emo, this is emo" and provide a laundry list of examples of what they think is emo, but let's be honest: a lot of today's emo music is vastly different from the emo that sprang out of the Washington, D.C. hardcore punk scene of the 1980s. Go back to the late 80s and early 90s and take a look at emo bands like Rites of Spring, Embrace, Texas is the Reason, and Sunny Day Real Estate. Those guys focused on the music, the passion of their words--not their style of hair or dress.

So, to be honest, I don't buy into this whole "I listen to emo so it's okay if I dress that way, but he/she can't because she's not emo" because it's all a bunch of crap. Emo is music, not a lifestyle. In my opinion, anyone who dresses to be "emo" is just ripping off a trend, whether they are a fan or not.

Anyway..I hope you know that .. "bragging" (for a lack of better term) about your depression is exactly what the kids you're complaining about do.

People can dress and wear and listen to and act however they want. That doesn't put them in a category. That's just them. The people aren't pretending to be something they're not, it's just how they wanna be. If they wanna act ridiculous and you don't like it, that's their problem. No sense in complaining about people acting .. like what you're doing. With the labels and such. Just let people be who they wanna be.