that_punk_guy wrote:
I'd be very interested to hear what your ideas are, if any, on what this word 'emo' (in terms of a musical genre/scene) actually means. I want to go further and explain exactly why I'm asking, except I think I don't want to risk influencing what anyone says, so...
Right, this is not meant to cause any offence, this really is my honest opinion. But I hate the word. 'Emo' creates an image in my mind, rightly or wrongly, of kids who think that punk is really trendy and listen to this 'emo' rubbish thinking that its the next big thing, when everyone knows that punk died at the beginning of the eighties.
I have held a view like this ever since I worked in a record shop - I could see what was happening with all the teenagers in my town....metal and punk were never the norm...metallers and punks were always hairy people who wore black or whatever, but never did so to be 'trendy', if anything their motive was the opposite.
Yet suddenly *everyone* was wearing these hooded tops with NOFX, Slipknot etc on, and it seemed as if you had to have a hooded sweatshirt and a few piercings in order to look good, and maybe get a girl.
But I always remember metallers being anything but trendy, and whilst they belonged to a group, you never got people wearing Slayer t-shirts who didn't like Slayer so they could get into a girl's pants. Kerrang was never a mainstream magazine,you expected to have people insult you for having long hair and wearing metal t-shirts or dressing as a punk, not to be a hit with your mates / the girls. When I was into punk, it was about people singing about a #OOPS# situation - The Expolited singing about the Thatcher government and how it'd shafted people for example, Discharge singing about The Possibility of Life's Destruction :lol: and since Green Day and all that other pants was around, it seems to become a medium to sing about how that girl you like has copped off with someone else, oh woe is me....
Sorry for the rant, and I realise how unbalanced this view is, its just one I acquired some years ago. with the advent of Green Day and Offspring, when everone called them 'punk'. Bad Religion have a lot to answer for!
Oh, and I'm probably not the first person to get sick of classifications. I remember when I helped out at the shop after I left, and I had people come in and ask for 'Emo-core' or some such - I just told them where to go...
At the moment, I'm listening to American Black 70s Male Soul Music.
But I prefer to just say, "James Brown" :lol:
