Is it possible that EMO and straight-edge can mix with a normal fashionhead. Like would it be impossible to see someone with really great fashion sense and carry that has a flesh tunnel...or would a straight-edge person not be so straight if they listened to everything...not just punk or emo music...?????
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What is Emo?
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Maybe it's not on topic, but today, I've seen a girl with big letters on her bag which said : "Emo sucks", and I was surprised because she was wearing pretty Emo clothes and had her hair died in black and was wearing badges in her t-shirt of unknown bands (at least for me) which seemed also pretty emo.
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Emo
Seriously though, as a teenager, I know alot of 'Emo' people- they aren't goths, but more like a cross between goths and 'indie' kids. They wear the dark clothes, but less chains and studs, and their clothes are tighter.
Like most styles, it was inspired by music, particularly Dashboard Confessional.
The best thing about emo is the haircuts
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Seriously though, as a teenager, I know alot of 'Emo' people- they aren't goths, but more like a cross between goths and 'indie' kids. They wear the dark clothes, but less chains and studs, and their clothes are tighter.
Like most styles, it was inspired by music, particularly Dashboard Confessional.
The best thing about emo is the haircuts
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A group of white, mostly middle-class well-off kids who find imperfections in there life and create a ridiculous, depressing melodrama around each one. They often take anti-depressants, even though the majority don't need them. They need to wake up and deal with life like everyone else instead of wallowing in their imaginary quagmire of torment.
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I actually like the hair and makeup 
If my hair was easy to dye I'd probably get blue and violet to my black hair.
the clothes are ok, not the best but ok.
However the whining attitude sucks, so I'll just get the look and leave everything else "emo" away
If my hair was easy to dye I'd probably get blue and violet to my black hair. the clothes are ok, not the best but ok.
However the whining attitude sucks, so I'll just get the look and leave everything else "emo" away
"Emo" is a term that has been so dramatically mutilated over the years the true definition is very hard to find.
Emo was originally a genre of music, emotionally driven and powerful lyrics. Usually listened to by ultra hip underground indie kids. Bands like Mineral , Christie Front Drive, and more well known Rites of Spring. Originating in the mid 1980's on the east coast, "Emocore"
was a offspring of the DC hardcore music scene.
I know nothing of Emo style, only I suppose its band followers emulating what band members wear.
Sunny Day Real estate is second wave emo. Like Fugazi, Which are bands circa mid to late 1990s that followed in the vain of original emo bands.
Emo was originally a genre of music, emotionally driven and powerful lyrics. Usually listened to by ultra hip underground indie kids. Bands like Mineral , Christie Front Drive, and more well known Rites of Spring. Originating in the mid 1980's on the east coast, "Emocore"
was a offspring of the DC hardcore music scene.
I know nothing of Emo style, only I suppose its band followers emulating what band members wear.
Sunny Day Real estate is second wave emo. Like Fugazi, Which are bands circa mid to late 1990s that followed in the vain of original emo bands.
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Straightedge kids are absolutely the most angry lot of fellows I have ever seen.
Now, I'm sure they aren't all like that, but the ones around here are so tense and filled with horrible angst, they seemed so stressed all the time.
I dressed a bit emo-like 3 years ago...when I was 16! sometimes I kinda think it looks good on others, but not on me anymore...it has to fit with the personality and because mine changed a lot in the last few years, I wouldn't wear clothes like that again...
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Hmm...personally I think the whole émo' word is getting so overused. I don't see myself as emo at all. But others tend to all me émo or scene'.
I love how people these emo kids think they've invented something new...
The whole lets-wear-black, smoke clove cigarettes, and I'm-so-artsy-it-hurts attitude has been around as long as there have been parents to hate and and establishment to rebel against.
Back in the late 80's and early 90's this scene was called "alternative" and I was once a proud member- and I have a feeling there's others here who fell into this category back in the day...
Personally, I see the emo/alternative-ness/straight-edge scene as a backlash against anything mainstream- usually because the kids that adopt emo have been rejected/or feel rejected by the status quo. Nothing wrong w/not being a cheerleader of jock, some of these kids seem to make depression a glorified pursuit...
The whole lets-wear-black, smoke clove cigarettes, and I'm-so-artsy-it-hurts attitude has been around as long as there have been parents to hate and and establishment to rebel against.
Back in the late 80's and early 90's this scene was called "alternative" and I was once a proud member- and I have a feeling there's others here who fell into this category back in the day...
Personally, I see the emo/alternative-ness/straight-edge scene as a backlash against anything mainstream- usually because the kids that adopt emo have been rejected/or feel rejected by the status quo. Nothing wrong w/not being a cheerleader of jock, some of these kids seem to make depression a glorified pursuit...
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Emo is those kids who post on their xangas every day how they want to kill themselves, how they can't go on living, how they can't survive because they love someone so much who doesn't love them back, how the world is f*cked up, etc.
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As a style,emo looks disgusting. I don't like the music either, and they seem quite ridiculous.
I think emo kids these days are mainstream.
Personally, I see the emo/alternative-ness/straight-edge scene as a backlash against anything mainstream- usually because the kids that adopt emo have been rejected/or feel rejected by the status quo. Nothing wrong w/not being a cheerleader of jock, some of these kids seem to make depression a glorified pursuit...
I think emo kids these days are mainstream.
Ah emo... 
So many kids at my school are obessed with this whole emo thing. I'm not totally against it- - I want people to have fun and be unique, but I think this whole prescribed notion of what emo is supposed to be is just silly.
At my school people are often called "wannabe emos" and everyone is trying so hard to fit a certain mold. Recently a girl in my class was apparently being mildly harrassed by her ex-boyfriend and she was understandably upset. But none of my classmates sympathized with her. They accused her actions of being a "wannabe emo" because she's not the certain mold to be the "real thing" and they, my classmates hailing from one of the richest towns in Masachusetts (I'm not saying finacial status has anything to do with whether a person is emo or not) are lauding themselves as the real thing just because they have a myspace and a screename along the lines of "xstarvingeyesx". It's almost like a cycle- last year everyone was "prep" now they're "emo", it will never end! AE and Abercrombie duds have now been replaced with black eyeliner and cheap bands pins.
Also what really bothers me is that people read so much into it, like every action is either emo or it isn't. I was recently asked by a fellow class mate whether playing field hockey was emo. I was dumb-founded. Why whould such a thing even matter?
In terms of the whole music thing, in theory, all music is emotional. It doesn't matter whether its Christie Front Drive, My Chemical Romance or even Britney Spears. Emo is just turning into a dumb pop-culture pharse used to catergorize people into a certain norm. It's what you want it to be, its not a defintion from urbandictionary.com nor is it a white middle-class girl who cuts herself. It's whatever you make it.
So many kids at my school are obessed with this whole emo thing. I'm not totally against it- - I want people to have fun and be unique, but I think this whole prescribed notion of what emo is supposed to be is just silly.
At my school people are often called "wannabe emos" and everyone is trying so hard to fit a certain mold. Recently a girl in my class was apparently being mildly harrassed by her ex-boyfriend and she was understandably upset. But none of my classmates sympathized with her. They accused her actions of being a "wannabe emo" because she's not the certain mold to be the "real thing" and they, my classmates hailing from one of the richest towns in Masachusetts (I'm not saying finacial status has anything to do with whether a person is emo or not) are lauding themselves as the real thing just because they have a myspace and a screename along the lines of "xstarvingeyesx". It's almost like a cycle- last year everyone was "prep" now they're "emo", it will never end! AE and Abercrombie duds have now been replaced with black eyeliner and cheap bands pins.
Also what really bothers me is that people read so much into it, like every action is either emo or it isn't. I was recently asked by a fellow class mate whether playing field hockey was emo. I was dumb-founded. Why whould such a thing even matter?
In terms of the whole music thing, in theory, all music is emotional. It doesn't matter whether its Christie Front Drive, My Chemical Romance or even Britney Spears. Emo is just turning into a dumb pop-culture pharse used to catergorize people into a certain norm. It's what you want it to be, its not a defintion from urbandictionary.com nor is it a white middle-class girl who cuts herself. It's whatever you make it.
