can someone explain "emo" to me....

[idgiehkt]

both the noun and the adjective?

:shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Before the douchebags show up...

http://www.fourfa.com/

As an adjective though, it's usually a derogatory term for someone who's overly emotional.

[idgiehkt]

2. thanks, honey

I know a bit about the music but the adjective always has me scratching my head going 'is that good or bad', lol.

I wonder if anyone will post about Elmo...

[ghostsofgiants]

6. While we're on the topic, some emo related amusements...

How To Be Emo: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-412302931332188859
Emo Farm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QohB8eAycBQ
Emogame: http://www.emogame.com/

[idgiehkt]

9. thanks!

:loveya:


edit:

LOL. This "things to avoid" in the first video is hysterical, lol.

:rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

18. My favourite part of the first video is "I like to knit, fool!"

And "Believe it or not, Slayer is not emo."

[idgiehkt]

21. James Trafficant is not emo...wtf?

LOL.

Whoever did this did a great job. You know what it reminds me of? The tone of that famous Violent Femmes album. Wow. The whole tenor is right there.

So Tupac is emo, huh? Wonder how he'd feel about that, lol.

[ghostsofgiants]

25. That video, and Emogame, and some of the stuff on fourfa.com...

Are pretty indicative that emo kids have a sense of humour and aren't whiney depressed kids as most people would love to believe. (Mind you there are a lot of whiney kids who think they are "emo" by virtue of acting whiney and depressed. they're more "douchebag" than "emo.")

[idgiehkt]

28. Oh. My. God.

"Emofarm"

:rofl:

this is hysterical.

"They're shinkickers. Them emo's is vicious."

There is so much good stuff on youtube lately it's unreal.

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Haha, I don't know what I did before YouTube.

Best website ever.

[idgiehkt]

31. me either.

these videos are reminding me of alot of 90's pop culture...

Johnny Depp in Edwardscissorhands/Fairuza Balk in The Craft (especially that Hope is Emo video that Lefty Mom posted)
Wynona Ryder in Heathers. Wow, it's cool they actually have a name for this now...I could have used one when I was that age (instead of overly emotional freak, lol).

[ghostsofgiants]

33. I'd actually like to do sociological research on the concept of "emo."

Take that fourfa site to the next level. I'm a nerd like that, haha. It'd be interesting though, especcially when you get into the transformation over the past couple years of what is perceived to be "emo."

[idgiehkt]

35. if you do I want to read it.

those videos you linked were awesome. If people are going to this much trouble and expense to document and even satirize it then it's worth looking into. And to think I was called 'that weird girl' in college. Now they are legion, lol.

[ghostsofgiants]

36. Sure.

RandomKoolzip will probably kick my ass for approaching it from a sociological point of view though. I'll work the musical aesthetics in there as well somehow, haha.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. Emo, emere, emi, emptus. "To buy."

Caveat emptor!

:P

[LeftyMom]

4. "emotional", tends toward whiny, self-indulgent and navel-gazing

Emo kids look like a adrogynous reinvention of goth kids, minus the affectation of invincibility and any remaining hint of individuality. They all have the same black dye job and short hair cut with slightly-too-long bangs. Thier taste in music runs to whiny, self indulgent shit, like Bright Eyes.

[idgiehkt]

8. wow.

That is my youngest friend's favorite band (he's 15). He is decidely not 'emo' though...

I think he just has a crush on Conor Oberst.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Bright Eyes are good.

I'm not sure why they draw such a visceral reaction from some (who apparently haven't given them much of a listen, based on the ignorant opinions they spew). Listen to their "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" album and tell me that's whiney and self-indulgent.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. Bright Eyes is pretty good.

And can you argue with this song?

"When the President talks to God,
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women's rights?
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike?
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God,
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute on down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind?
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God,
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed?
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed?
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God,
I wonder which one plays the better cop?
"We should find some jobs the ghetto's broke",
"No they're lazy George I say we don't,
Just give em' more liquor stores and dirty coke",
That's what God recommends.

When the President talks to God,
Do they drink near beer and go play golf?
While they pick which countries to invade,
Which Muslim souls still can be saved?
I guess God just calls a spade a spade,
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God,
Does he ever think that maybe He's not?
That that voice is just inside his head?
When he kneels next to the Presidential bed,
Does he ever smell his own bullshit?
When the President talks to God?

I doubt it."

[mzteris]

5. my nearly 13 yo son says

"emo is kinda like 'goth' - like dressing all in black for being depressed - but more like when you dress to your emotions - whether you're depressed or not. But come to think of it - it's usually for people who're dressed in black...." :shrug:

[idgiehkt]

11. that's adorable.

I'd like to hear his opinions on more things than just this. :)

[mzteris]

13. he just came back in and wanted to

"add some some stuff" but I told him I'd already posted it.

He's a pretty funny kid - and definitely not shy about sharing his opinions - so whatever you wanna know - just ask away! :)

[idgiehkt]

15. bless his heart.

I'd just like to get his opinion on the current state of the nation. That's if he's allowed to know about it. It might be harmful to a minor at this point to know anything about it. :(

[graywarrior]

7. EMO sample

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_9ULuCDQCwo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LnWMrc7lPvs

[idgiehkt]

17. these rock

this kid is deep. Did he win that competition? I didn't follow it...

[graywarrior]

34. Yes...and now I am addicted to him.

[Left Is Write]

10. I'm sorry, there's just no explanation for it.

[LeftyMom]

14. this is pretty on the mark

Note the Official Emo Haircut (TM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUPQ-2j0O3M

[idgiehkt]

24. 'just because I'm introspective, and I walk among the shadows

doesn't mean I can't hear you..."

:rofl:

this is me, sadly, in high school, in what college I completed...through most of my twenties...at least once a month even now, lol.

[ComerPerro]

16. Emo kids are just another in a long line who "rebel" by embracing a fad

I want to be different than everyone else, so I'll be emo and listen to emo music. That way, I'm not a tool. I like indie music....


:eyes:

[WCGreen]

19. The Smiths.....

[idgiehkt]

22. I can see it

all that underground indie music before goth really got big.

[WCGreen]

32. Well, Girlfriends in a Coma....

Is a pretty emo styled song...

[Dukkha]

23. it's about being yourself and expressing your individuality

see




I was a goth in the 90's so I can laugh at myself now

[idgiehkt]

27. I like those long silky bangs.

even if they are all the same.

Kind of like the skate-boarder hair-cuts but with black dye.

[tuvor]

26. Emo, Emo, Emo...

I'm the one in the middle, you drunken slob!

[hotforteacher]

30. Emo's what you get when Ian MacKaye from Minor Threat

throws up.

From what I can tell, the shit started in the mid-80's with The Smiths and germinated in the early 90's with bands like Sensefield, Shudder to Think, Smashing Pumpkins, and Samiam...then it got stylized. I cannot, for the life of me, tolerate crap like Bright Eyes. They make my teeth hurt.

[idgiehkt]

37. they remind me of

the Cure, for some reason.