Well, I am an emo.



































Just kidding...but try to play nice. No harm done.

-Matt

 

hahaha.
that would be nice.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about the definition of "emo".

It'll be a fad long gone within the next decade. TV personalites will laugh and make jokes of iPods (no offense to any owners) and emo's in 2016 the way people make fun of 1996 and 1986 now.

Life's too short to be "emotional" and sad about your "mean parents". You go be "emo", I'll be busy enjoying life and trying to live it to the fullest.

Don't make fun about boys working on their hair like a girl would now. A guy has as much right to a lady's hair as a girl does to a gent's hair. I agree it can be ridiculous on both sides in some cases though.

 

Ha Ha, some of you folks hit it right. Now this is an ongoing saga in my house with a 14 yo daughter. She fits the mold of emotional, doesn't like to be "labeled" but does it to everyone else. Dresses like she should be in a freak show, (looked like Boy George on Thanksgiving), when I don't catch it and thinks that everything is terrible and the parents are mean. But she's not EMO, acording to her anyway.

Course I'm old too and can't figure out what is wrong with "main stream" behavior, dress etc. It seems that these kids are looking for attention, but don't want to stand out, yet they do like a smashed thumb, and the attention they get is not the kind they want and still can't figure out why.

I live in a rural area where the "norm" or average is flannel shirts and blue jeans, tennis shoes or work boots and mostly natural colored hair. I was raised that way too. So the "individual creative" look attracts attention because it's not what you would expect to find here.
The youngsters that follow the "average, normal" dress and behaviour are the ones that get jobs, scholarships and do well for themselves. The ones that want to be "different" don't realize the same opportunities for the various reasons and can't figure that out either.

I know I'm not answering the original posters question but offering my opinions and observations, please bear with.

Therefore, my definition of EMO is a conglomeration af the above examples, emotional , parents are "mean" , everybody is out to get them , life suks , dress and behave out of the "average" , are defiant to the letter and won't listen to lessons learned .

Now I may venture to guess that I was some of that when I was a teen but I don't remember it being that bad and we learned early that if we wanted to go anywhere we needed to look, act and dress the part.

Wife tells me that some of this is a "style". Huh?

Sign me,

Confused in Norcal

 

Thanks for the lesson folks. I guess I'm just getting too old (42). There was a day when I was a part of the fad, then days where I wasn't, but at least knew what defined it, and now I can hear about it yet understand nothing about the lifestyle.

Anyone want to guess which one I was a part of? (If I showed you pictures, you would howl with laughter.)

 

Flowery bell-bottoms?

 

I could use a good laugh.

Tim

 

Family and freinds call me Emo. . .and I thought I was just a Negative-Nancy

 

Close but too early.

 

Am I getting warmer?


Tim

 

Oh crap! You mean putting suicidal gesture marks on your wrists as a fad is real? I thought my neighbors son was just getting even with me (for sending him down the street to a neighbor to borrow a couple of TR double e's) when he was telling me about this. That's interesting. I guess like hkiefus, I'm just getting old and way out of touch. Still though, it doesn't seem any stranger than some of things people were doing when I was younger.

 

Well I got a couple of trips around the sun on hkiefus and I remember the bells, disco and hippies, used to be called one, lol.

heh heh, My daughter asked me last night why I was so mean, because I didn't agree with something she thought was a great (really, really dumb) idea. I even told her why it was a dumb idea, she cried, accused me of calling her dumb . . . But I said "No, you're not dumb, but that idea is."

I gotta ask my folks about this, now my curiosity is up. Was I a geek, a freak, a punk or a normal country kid? I know my folks could always find me at the trout stream in the summer, mom would whistle that shrill, blow out your ears whistle and I'd saunter home for supper. Dad always had the chore list, cut the grass, take out the trash, rake the leaves and split the firewood. Kids always ask me, where did you learn to do that? From growing up of course . .

Cheers

 

You're still too early, come to the 80's folks.

 

Heh heh, class of '76 here.

 

From what I learned at my college radio station that I worked for, "emo music" was just short for "emotional alternetive rock". Like alteretive rock but at a slower pace,like a ballad, with some poser whining about some girl.