Music Banter - Is emo becoming trendy? (p.s. i love you)

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Originally Posted by hopefornothing

Emo’s not a cult no body knows what’s going on because they say their emo cus that’s the cool thing to do and they don’t take the time to figure out what emo is besides a cool word short for emotional and every day we have more of these retards running around wearing gc shirt saying hey I’m emo than the majority of the world sees those kind of people and thinks that is what emo when it’s not even close and they start frowning upon it because those kind of kids that they see are completely ignorant to what emo really is and you couldn’t hold a 10min conversation with them about it

Than you have the real “emo” people who absolutely love music and know what’s going on and they get filed under the some genre as the people wearing the gc shirts so when they get mad their just sticking up for what they believe in, in some way trying to save what is left of emo the same thing happens in all of the scenes punk, political punk, hard core, metal, ect…. So its not fair to say that emo is a cult. if you actually believe that emo is a cult though then you must think of every other music genre as a separate cult witch I don’t think is true at all

Why do you care so much? That's the thing that amazes me. Why does it matter that someone is wearing a Good Charlotte t-shirt and saying they are emo? What grief can this possibly cause in your life? What is so special about being a "real emo person"? What are you sticking up for? What does "what is left of emo" actually mean?

Your entire above post has completely vindicated my assertion that certain people wish for emo to be a cult, a secret society where only a select few know the "truth", and one where they can use this "truth" as an excuse to talk down on other people just because they might not own a Sunny Day Real Estate record. Which I do, by the way.

forget it lets move on with our lives

I think I know what hopefornothing means. Its like emo has gotten a certain reputation from the past decade, and he/she feels that its image is being destroyed by poseurs.

I tend to think of it like a baseball team where all the players that used to be good retired and now they have worse new players. Although the the franchise has the same team name the players are completely diffferent.

...I'm not making sense again am I?

thats good way to look at it

I see what Zealious is saying, and it's quite a good analogy. Many people do care a lot about it in that way. Anymore, I am of the opinion that if it's good music, listen to it. I listen to Good Charlotte's first album, that is some amazing pop punk. I listen to deathmetal, Killswitch Engage is amazing. I listen to Avril Lavigne's first album, along with Alanis Morissette. I like both of them. I also listen to just about anything in between. I think I cared once. Now it's just for the good music.

yeah its not bad to listen to gc and such but if your going to call your self emo or punk or anything for that matter just take the time to know what your calling your self and it goes both ways if your criticize something do the same so many people hate emo but they don’t even know what it they have a vague distorted idea from mtv and that's it and they say they hate it