Emo's
Everywhere I go there's emo kids. Every one of them looking like the guy next to him and talking in a fake american accent even though they are UK residents. But it's come to my attention that this obsession isn't just a clothing style it's far, far worse than that. It's become a trend to be depressed. I mean fair enough if you are genuinely depressed and is receiving help but over half the stories I've heard. It's not a reason, it's an excuse to follow the crowd.
One day I was on the bus and this emo kid was sitting opposite me and he started telling me that he was depressed because his parents told him he couldn't go to some gig. He blethered on and on about how hard his life was but admitted that he didn't have a job and how his parents bought him everything he asked for. To me that's not a sign of having a hard life. So this kid started to tell me about how much he hurt himself, how much he wanted to die but was still here. He showed me the non deep scars on his wrists and exagerated how his girlfriend had dumped him for questioning his sexuality. I mean how annoying can you get. I didn't give two craps about how bad he thought his life was, and all because mum and dad said the dreaded word. No. But it's not just the whole I'm depressed, self harming and questioning my sexuality routine. It's much more than that.
It's the music. Frankly the music is crap. Thanks to bands like fall out boy and my chemical romance the kids of the twenty first century are following in the footsteps of guys who write depressing songs for money. And these kids buy their records and give the bands who apparantly deserve every penny because they've been hard done by. I'm sorry half these bands who write these sloppy words that they try and pass off as music don't know the first thing about a hard life.
Last year there was major news coverage over the emo cult when that young English girl hung herself because her parents told her no. She had music such as fall out boy and my chemical romance ( I know I'm not capatalizing their letters, but they don't deserve it) which influences her to completely over react. However of course the bands shouldn't be blamed for her taking their message too far that it's okay to self harm, it's okay to be depressed over the most stupidist things imagineable.
Personally I have no respect for the whole emo genre, movement if you can call it that because people are following the life of others instead of their own,
One day I was on the bus and this emo kid was sitting opposite me and he started telling me that he was depressed because his parents told him he couldn't go to some gig. He blethered on and on about how hard his life was but admitted that he didn't have a job and how his parents bought him everything he asked for. To me that's not a sign of having a hard life. So this kid started to tell me about how much he hurt himself, how much he wanted to die but was still here. He showed me the non deep scars on his wrists and exagerated how his girlfriend had dumped him for questioning his sexuality. I mean how annoying can you get. I didn't give two craps about how bad he thought his life was, and all because mum and dad said the dreaded word. No. But it's not just the whole I'm depressed, self harming and questioning my sexuality routine. It's much more than that.
It's the music. Frankly the music is crap. Thanks to bands like fall out boy and my chemical romance the kids of the twenty first century are following in the footsteps of guys who write depressing songs for money. And these kids buy their records and give the bands who apparantly deserve every penny because they've been hard done by. I'm sorry half these bands who write these sloppy words that they try and pass off as music don't know the first thing about a hard life.
Last year there was major news coverage over the emo cult when that young English girl hung herself because her parents told her no. She had music such as fall out boy and my chemical romance ( I know I'm not capatalizing their letters, but they don't deserve it) which influences her to completely over react. However of course the bands shouldn't be blamed for her taking their message too far that it's okay to self harm, it's okay to be depressed over the most stupidist things imagineable.
Personally I have no respect for the whole emo genre, movement if you can call it that because people are following the life of others instead of their own,
Have you ever looked at yourself and thought, "hmm is someone calling me emo?"
Cause that's what I'm thinking right now.
Toxic Narcotic, May 24th, 2009 at 12:23:50pm
What is the point of this blog? To have a jab at us all? Have you ever actually listened to Fall Out Boy? (I capitalize their band name because I think they deserve it.)
I have all five of their albums (and no, they're not my number one favourite band so I'm not just sticking up for them because of that), and let me tell you, not one of their songs is about killing yourself. In fact, the majority of their songs just poke fun at labellers such as yourself, and the rest of them talk about girls and general life like any other band.
The girl who hung herself misunderstood the music, and why? Because she was stupid. She stumbled across an internet cult and she was stupid about it. Is that Fall Out Boy's fault? Did their lyrics about one night stands make her kill herself? No. Was it My Chemical Romance's fault? Did THEIR lyrics about carrying on with life through the struggles make her kill herself? No.
You seem like the kind of guy who listens to The Sex Pistols, and The Clash, and that's fine. But you probably know more sh*t about those punk bands than I do (though I do listen to them sometimes) and I probably know more sh*t about the alternative bands of today than you do, so why don't we all stop trying to pretend we know stuff about bands that WE DON'T EVEN LISTEN TO.
Zwitter, May 21st, 2009 at 07:37:55am
Firstly I would like to say that this isn't 2005 and there is hardly any people looking "emo" anywhere these days.
I highly doubt some kid just randomly started talking to you about his life unless you engaged him in some way. You could have politely asked him to not speak to you if you really didn't want to hear what he had to say.
And as for Fall Out Boy & My Chemical Romance, they actually write intelligent and witty lyrics, just because you personally don't like them doesn't mean that they don't deseve any respect, like they didn't travel around in a van going from show to show and sleeping on floors.
Whining about a genre of music isn't going to change anything. Hating emo has become more of a cliche than emo has these days. Grow up.
p.s; Fall Out Boy's genre is pop punk/pop rock tyvm.
CASTIEL, March 7th, 2009 at 05:08:45pm
I totally agree with you, dude. mo is so f*cked I could spend hours just covering its stupidity. Great blog.
CanYouFeelIt, March 3rd, 2009 at 02:41:21pm
im sorry in a way yes i can understand your viewpoint, that some kids are tkaing it too far. On the other hand I do NOT believe you can blame musicians. Thats their living, writing music. And apparently this music sells. I listen to that type of music and you dont hear me going "I wanna kill myself." And there are many like me. SO I see both ends, I just dont believe you can blame a musician or band...thats not fair.
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FaLlEn _ AnGeL, March 3rd, 2009 at 12:16:24pm
And the point of posting the exact same blog twice was...?
-eyeroll-
goldenyears, March 2nd, 2009 at 10:58:44am