Emo being strung out for too long?

[Real_Illusions]

OK, Emo was cool when it was used to make fun of people on MySpace and shit, but now everyman and his dog calls everything emo. It fucking anoys the hell out of me as people call nirvana and smashing pumkins emo, and worst of all i have long NATURAL black hair and i am called emo it is soo fucking annoying. Does anyone concur?

[Hydrophoenix]

if you come on a forum to whine about people calling you emo, you ARE emo my friend..

[Stoned n' happy]

[drumONdrugs23]

wouldnt say hes emo. hes just speaking his mind. but yeah i dont like emo either. its like 50% goth 50% pussy. but i disagree with illusions too, emo was never cool. emos music just sucks in general. black power.

[Bones]

I agree with Drum

[monkey_man]

i wanna create a new social group called "please gas us cuz we're stupid cunts." Not a very catchy name, but if people are mad enough to define themselves as part of some of the groups around atm...

[Stoned n' happy]

My clich from highschool was pretty big but all outcasts. It was a mix of goth, punk, burnout etc... and everything inbetween. We started calling ourselves a name (that I won't name) b/c of the place we hung out at. We would just chill all night drinking and smoking b/c there was nothing else to do. We were labeled a gang by the police and school so they started using anti-gang tactics on us. It was fucking rediculous for a while.

[Tuur]

Yeah we had that too when I was in school.
Didn't really bother me, maybe because I'm not somebody who puts people (or myself) in lil' boxes according to their appearance and/or way of life.
I don't get it, to some ppl. you could even ask "what" they were, and they'd explain it, together with the rules of conduct, the etiquette, the dress code and everything that comes with it.

It made me mad, in the beginning...

[drumONdrugs23]

i'm not really in a "clique" my friends and i are just people.

[masochistic onion]

there were no real cliques in my school, but for one exception. the skids, they hung out in the "skid pit", some were goth, some were punk, some were whiggers, some were just those kids who dont stand out, all of them were dirty dirty kids. in fact thats what really united the skid pit, they were all dirty dirty kids. so in my school, it wasn't like oh you're emo, oh you're a jock or oh you're a stoner. you were either a skid or you weren't. and being a skid was a bad thing.



but on the topic, yeah people labeling whatever emo is really annoying. You feel sad cause you broke up with your girlfriend, you're emo. You have black hair, you're emo. you... i dunno, but odds are someone thinks its emo. My friend told me that after he broke up with his longtime girlfriend that he used to play pale blue eyes by the velvet underground and get all emo to it. but he was just feeling sad, nothing wrong with being sad. you just gotta be happy too.

[Real_Illusions]

hey hey hey i never said emo was cool as in i liked it, i ment it was cool to use it to describe the long sweeping fringes and youd say "what an emo", i was saying everyones using it nowdays to describe everything, i hate songs about cutting wrists and how crap your ex girlfriend/childhood as much as the next guy. i am NOT pro emo by any means.

[madbmx]

i completely agree with illusions. the emo stereotype has gotten so big nowadays that people label people emo for the stupidest thing. if you have converse, your emo, if you have black hair, your emo, if you listen to screamo or hardcore, your labeled emo, even tho it has nothing to do with emo people or emoness at all. frankly, real emo people barely exists. there are people that like to listen to shitty music but does that make them emo?

the whole thing has been blown out of perportion

[Guest]

[drumONdrugs23]

... yeah i just dont like screamo music. or the who emo scene. i;m not saying every1 with black hair and converse is emo. plenty of kids in my school wear converse but theres a certain distinction between those people and emo kids. i usally concider people emo when they hit the makeup stage and the as i lay crying band shirts.

[Real_Illusions]

lol to luther