Surfing Waves

Posted: **Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:26 pm**

i dont get it. i dress emo but i get ridiculed for doin so juts cos i listen to metal as well....someone help me outy here!

Posted: **Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:28 am**

anyone who doesnt dress mainstream is bound to get ridiculed. metal and emo/hardcore are actually very closely related musically, so i dont know what their problem is. i too dress emo, but i guess it looks sorta bogan as well .. *shrug*.

Posted: **Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:32 am**

I'm sorry but I don't actually understand a single word of this thread!!

Posted: **Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:44 am**

Whats EMO?

Posted: **Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:35 pm**

emo music/emotional music, think bands like, um, 'my chemical romance'?

Posted: **Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:46 pm**

Yes, but how does one dress to fit the set "Emo"??? very curious....
Do you wear your heart on your sleeve?
*laconic eyeroll and a smirk*

Brent

Posted: **Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:36 pm**

emo is not in any way related to metal, at all.

Emo is basicly the kids who think they're goth but also think they're too cool to be goth so they be emo. I'ts basicly guys in girls pants with long hair wearing vans and the rest of their prep clothes.

It's just another stupid fad...

Posted: **Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:22 am**

Aha just found a couple of sites that helped fill in the gaps a bit...

http://www.dobi.nu/emo/
http://www.fourfa.com/

Think I'm getting the picture now

...so we're talking more punky than metal, and having dyed black hair with trousers that are a bit too small really...

Posted: **Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:46 am**

but see the whole thing is based on people who think they're cooler than everyone else and their life has so many problems they have to deal with except not really which makes them that much better, so much better in fact that their emotional because of it and need to walk around in 'trousers that are a bit too small'.

I'ts not really punk related either though

Posted: **Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:51 am**

we did have a post where the ladies discussed the merits of emos but it seems to have disappeared - probably in the great server crash of '05 :roll:

Posted: **Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:56 am**

To be honest SP - I think that may have been a blessing!!

Can we arrange another crash to get rid of this thread?

Also, Why's it in 'Surf Chat'?

Posted: **Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:53 pm**

Sorry but u guys are all so gay saying that...its just another thing that people are like punk or prep or surfer or goth its just like that!! so you guys sould really fink about it because im sure most off you lot are branded a surfer and its tite saying that

Posted: **Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:24 pm**

Oh goodness....
Take it from someone who enjoys everything from Husker Du to Mahler...this thread is fleshin'. "I dress EMO"...what a load of crap. The rush to "fit in" to a particular jaunre of music and to identify with such groups visually et al is simply a need to belong on your part. Kinda like the Greenday fanbase....it's a pity cause their Music is actually really good. It just gets lost in the visuals..
How anybody can choose to "belong" to a particular sub-set based on the fact their life has more problems than another person buggers me???? I thought it was about music.

Posted: **Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:02 am**

This thread sux cos its making me feel old! Feel like some kids dad struggling to get my head round what the kids are into these days :lol:

.

Posted: **Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:47 am**

Hey Broosta, the upside to age is perspective. You can see things better and for what they really are at a distance....
Take the Sex Pistols for example; when I was at school (abet very young) they were the sh_t to me, right down to my (ironically) too-small tartan trousers). Now, in hindsight...it was the great rock & roll swindle. Kinda similar to this EMO branding. It's just speed pop dressed up with fresh 21st century angst & too-small trousers all over again...

Posted: **Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:45 am**

well yes unfortunately the punk/alternative scene is plagued with people dressing to impress and flaunting that "i hate the world coz the world hates me" attitude. i guess its fair enough that you stereotype it deathfrog, because thats probably all you see of 'emo' people. but there is actually more to it than that. there are people out there who dress not to 'fit in', be 'cooler' than everyone else or show off the fact that they are into a particular genre of music. i find it sad that you have obviously not met such people.

Posted: **Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:50 am**

deathfrog, you dont know much about this, do you? all genres of music like hardcore, emo, grindcore, metalcore etc are subgenres of punk. what bands are you into anyways?

Posted: **Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:56 am**

Anonymous wrote:well yes unfortunately the punk/alternative scene is plagued with people dressing to impress and flaunting that "i hate the world coz the world hates me" attitude. i guess its fair enough that you stereotype it deathfrog, because thats probably all you see of 'emo' people. but there is actually more to it than that. there are people out there who dress not to 'fit in', be 'cooler' than everyone else or show off the fact that they are into a particular genre of music. i find it sad that you have obviously not met such people.

that was me btw

Posted: **Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:30 am**

Broosta wrote:Whats EMO?

its short for emotional. its a type of music, which is loud and screams, then gets quiet for no reason, and pretty much i hate it. but that just my opinion. lots of people like it, and yeah dress up all in black clothes, lip ring, and all that jazz.

yeah..

Posted: **Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:46 pm**

Can anyone link to a picture with someone dressed emo?

Kind o' reminds me of the good old punk debate.(punk as fashion or a state of mind)