Thursday, December 30, 2004

Am I emo or what?



Johannah says: I think it's so funny when adults do stuff and think it's cool, when teens have been doing it for so long that it's no longer cool.

(On the subject of whether or not shooting pictures of one's feet is showing mad skills)

8 comments:

my15minutes said...

What's emo??

Unknown said...

Emo: type of music that is not punk but not metal either. They tend to dress in preppie goth (yeah, there's a weird combo) and black is their color.

Groups like Jimmy Eat World. :)

Unknown said...

no. beth. my mom is on crack. emo stands for emotional. it's kids that need attention to be happy but never actually ARE happy. and they listen to emotional songs about being misunderstood. it's usually like a rock acoustic sound.. like dashboard conffessional. and then emo kids usually have shaggy hair ande weird colors in their hair and have studed belts and wear chucfk taylor shoes. they wear rectangle black glasses a llot of the time, too.
they dont fight cause they cry too much and they don't rfeally hardxcore dance either. there is emoxcore which is kids who think they are tough but still cry a lot but it's more of just harder music with still depressing misunderstood lyrics.

emo has nothing to do with metal or punk, my mom was deeply misinformed. deeply.

the picture of shoes is emo cause meo kids always take pictures of themselves and post is on the internet for attention cause they are losers. and they are obsessed with their shoes cause they think they are sooo cute so they take pics of their shoes and put them on the internet and get the attention for it being a pic of themselves and get to show off their shoes... basically emo children are immature no lifersw that say they are suicidal but are too wimpy to end their lives.

but emo music is great!

with loooooooove,
johannah

Unknown said...

So I guess this proves that I'm an emotional self-absorbed loser who posts pics of her shoes to get attention from middle-aged women.

What I want to know is, Did it work?

Julie

P.S. My comments about emo not being metal or punk are accurate. It is not. So there ::sticks out tongue:: at zealous, types with four fingers daughter.

my15minutes said...

Well, am I ever thankful that we have johannah to comment here. Your description is really interesting. Self-pity rarely does land one in Happiness, you know? I think Grayson has some of this music on his CDs because I distinctly remember some self-pitying lyrics and suicide...but it made me laugh because it was SO over-the-top. What are some songs I would have heard of, jurassic relic that I am?

Unknown said...

Lisa, you are such the research whore! Thank you. Johannah thanks you.

Beth, Johannah read your remarks and said that she doesn't thnk you'll recognize any songs because they aren't often on the radio. She listens a lot to Bright Eyes which sounds like one long whine. Jon and I always tease her and Noah about them because this guy makes Bob Dylan sound positively non-nasal and whiny!

Anyway, funny. I'll ahve to take that emo self-test and answer my own question.

Unknown said...

Rofl!!

This is a great discussion and isn't it a riot how territorial purists of any bent can be?

Johnannah got a Death Cab for Cutie CD for Christmas from us, has all the Bright Eyes, listens to Dashboard Confessional and both she and Noah love the new Yellow Card song.

Jon and I got so tired of hearing emo on our stereo that Jon jokingly referred to it as "screamo" at the dinner table one night (thinking he'd invented a parody term to insult the muscial style) and both N&J erupted into: "This is certainly NOT screamo." Then they went into the intricacies of what "screamo" is and we roared! So there really is a musical style called screamo where screaming is heavily featured. :)

Ultimately it seems to all come down to that Nirvana problem - you feel arty and different, you express your art, you criticize the commoditization of art and then you get rich over it. Suddenly your fans suspect that you are selling-out and a whole new crop using your techniques and musical styles comes along to criticize you and the cylce begins again.

I see a pattern here that works iin Christian denominationalism as well. Maybe fast foods fall into the same trends! Lol

Well, time to listen to my U2 iPod which reveals what sell-outs those guys are - and rich, and gorgeous and prophetic and pop. Is it any wonder I love them?

--signed,
willing groupie of whatever flavor of the month I like

my15minutes said...

Yellow Card! OK, there's one that I can identify.