Hot Topic Kids, posers, or actually hardxcore? Options

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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.

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I guess you could be right, although I don't exactly consider new found glory, green day, and other bands you listed as punk. Their pop punk, they classify under pop more now a days, punk music is supposed to have like a raw type sound, and usually these bands do with their first albums, and thats what people want that link punk music, but after the band comes out with their second album or so they end up being a bit more clean and lose that raw-ness to them, and thats when MTV and other music networks get ahold of them. -shrugs-

I shop at hottopic, I get called emo almost everyday, I've learned to just avoid it and laugh it off. If your going to take it seriously every time then your just wasting time at having fun. Although it is rather annoying and immature.

I listen to emotional punk music, I can't exactly stand 'pop punk' music though. I love green day's first albums and stuff, but when they came out with the American Idiot album, I got it before it hit stores and I didn't like it at all. I think I liked one song off of it and that was it. I also liked Fall out Boy before they came out wiht From under the cork tree album, I love all their demos before that album though. They sound almost completely different. I love indie music as well. But anyway to shop at a store, I don't exactly think you have to live up to what the store sells off. I mean think of it, surf shops or stores that sell quicksilver, and other such companies that sell surfing items, skating, or snowboarding. I know plenty of people that shop at those type of stores that have never touched a surf board, snow, or a skateboard. Its rather annoying I think, since I surfed and skateboarded and use to shop at such stores, but of course once I quit doing them I haven't exactly shopped there since. -shrugs- Thats just how I am though.