Hot Topic Kids, posers, or actually hardxcore? Options

[SoaDyPOP]

I bet there's been 259208 topics about this already, but I'm too lazy to look through all billion and one threads.

Hot Topic customers - called posers, freaks, goths, punks, and Hot Topic Kids. So, what are they?

They're no different than the preps, emos, indies, gangsters, skaters, burnouts, brains, jocks, or anybody else. They shop at a store.

I absolutely hate how people call them posers. Posers are people who try to be something that they aren't. When the Hot Topic kids deem themselves goth without taking on the rituals, attitude, and style of gothic people, then they are posers.

In all reality, these 'posers' are a group of their own. Why don't they adopt a new name and drop the poser label? It would probably lessen all this controversy. It would also tell people more about their fashion sense, then saying 'poser.' Poser could be anything - you're trying to be a cowboy, trying to be an emo, trying to be a jock, trying to be a punk, trying to be a goth, trying to be Bob Saget (although, I don't know why anybody would try to be him). Poser is a very generalized and vague word. We need to tighten this up a bit.


I'm gonna tackle 2 more things in this post, actually. I'm on a roll.

1. Punk is not a fashion. Punk is a lifestyle (attitude, behavior, and way of thinking/belief system). To be a punk, you don't need to dress like one. To dress like one, you don't need to be one, but don't say you are one cos you've got plaid pants on. That does not work. That's when somebody is a poser.

2. Punk music. I bet there's countless threads about punk music, as well, but I don't really care. I want my views heard and I want them heard now, whether y'all like it or not.

Some say punk music isn't New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Yellowcard, and/or Green Day. Those people are wrong.

There's more than one part to the punk genre. There's pop/nu, hardcore, political, scream-o, street, thrash, and psychobilly and rockabilly can even be linked to punk.

Next time you bash on New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Yellowcard, and/or Green Day, make sure you do it well. Those bands are terrible...I mean...

Next time you bash on one of those pop punk bands and say that they're not punk, think twice. They are indeed punk. Also, if you're going to make fun of those bands and say they're not punk, you gotta back it up with some punk bands that you listen to, and Linkin Park does not count. Linkin Park isn't even remotely punk.

If you read this whole thing, thank you.

[Spykedjadedragon]

Sorry people. But Human Nature shall forever label people. We all do it subconsciously, whether we like it or not. Labels will never be gone. Of course, there are some people who adhere to labelling more than others...but we all label.

That said, I think the term "Poser" is silly and stupid. I agree with the person who said that there aren't any posers, just people who try too hard.

As for Hot Topic. Its a store. That's it. If you like their stuff, then shop there. If not, don't. I think its pretty stupid to see something you like from Hot Topic...and not buy it just because "Posers" go there. I've had people compliment something I'm wearing, and then recoil when they learn I bought it from Hot Topic. How ridiculous is that?!

I don't buy too many stuff from Hot Topic, but that's because I'm from NYC.

As for specific bands being..."punk". What is punk? And don't name me any bands...tell me what makes those bands punk to begin with. And isn't it possible that some of the newer stuff could be punk too? I hear a lot of nonsense about..."only the old stuff are good". That's stupid. If everyone thought like that, we wouldn't have any emergence of new music. Granted, there are some bands only in it for the money, and who are indeed produced specifically to target a certain demographic.....but some new bands just play what they enjoy and even though their sound is a little different, that doesn't make them any less worthy of the LABEL punk/goth/hardcore...whatever.

~Spyked~
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