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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is an emo teen?
When I was in school we had
Jocks
Preps
nerds
geeks
goth
etc
but now I am hearing teens being called emo.
what is it exactly?
Baitball Blogger
(46,709 posts)Not sure, really. I know that they're like Gothics, minus the Gothic.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)diabeticman
(3,121 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)I don't think she would consider herself emo though. I don't think she would label herself as anything other than herself. She is just who she is. What's funny is when she started dying her hair purple she never really saw anyone else with purple hair, but now she sees people everywhere with purple hair.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)diabeticman
(3,121 posts)Revanchist
(1,375 posts)Emo music has more of a hardcore punk feel (hence the name Emo = Emotive Punk) than Goth example:
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)I listened to both bands in high school in the 1980's (still listen to them now ) - I was far from gothic. . .
More into matching my socks and shirt.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Here is a longish page on what it is, where it came from, the look, the music, lots of stuff.
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Emo
Often it is an inaccurate description or insult. Punk. Hippy. Etc.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)When I was in school we had
Jocks
Preps
nerds
geeks
goth
No pot smoking slackers?
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)being the popular crowd
arcane1
(38,613 posts)It wasn't until I had graduated that I learned where the term came from
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)I was in central Virginia, and graduated in '85, when juniors and seniors could still use the smoking area
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 6, 2014, 10:17 PM - Edit history (1)
I mean my family were military....not that I was at the time...
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,379 posts)And "straight" didn't refer to sexuality back then.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I flew my freak flag high.
Laffy Kat
(16,379 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)those who smoked pot went down to the lake. (hence, the reference to Lake Marijuana)
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)come on.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Feral Child
(2,086 posts)if you want to avoid FB and commercial responses.
I think the poster was more interested in chatting than information. Perfectly cool, but I'd have posted in the Lounge.
Kaleva
(36,301 posts)At least, to me, in the way they may dress.
JEB
(4,748 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Steam Punk
MineralMan
(146,308 posts)Truly.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)Lilyhoney
(1,985 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Bosonic
(3,746 posts)(You can tell it's not new as 'MySpace' is included in http://www.dobi.nu/yourscenesucks/scenesters.htm)
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Action_Patrol
(845 posts)Were you not familiar with 'your scene sucks'? It hits the nail on the head for each genre.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)We're located in a hipster neighborhood, people will crack up at that site for days.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Am I helping?
VScott
(774 posts)they always have Juggalos to look down at.
Skeowes28
(62 posts)Updated punk rockers
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)"So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon," and "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."
kdmorris
(5,649 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)My best definition, as a post punk grown up goth.
minivan2
(214 posts)Someone who looks like this:
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liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)minivan2
(214 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)who aren't worldly enough to be hipsters.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Am I expressing myself, or am I just a weirdo?
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)is something you do BEFORE your parents and/or life teach you better. Personally, I think this guy looks interesting and wouldn't at all mind talking to him. The true "wierdos" are the conformists who ignore the fact that we're all different yet are equally valuable.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)was that I would not judge him/her merely by the way he/she was dressed.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)Would you care to distinguish them from all the other teenagers who whine too?
Any reason you then choose to illustrate what you think is a point with a picture of someone at least twice the age of a teenager, and talk about your own 'early forties' ass? Is it that you think all teenagers should be like you now?
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)which was what an 'emo teen' is.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)But if I as an adult dressed or behaved that way would I be seen as just expressing myself or as a creep?
I think we both know the answer.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Action_Patrol
(845 posts)Huge hugs on this one
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)It is a way of saying the teen is emotional. Emo is short for emotional, meaning the kid is depressed. That's my take on it. I've read all sorts of crap, but it still looks to me like it's depressed teens.
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)Add to other "cues" posted heavy but brighter make-up than Goths, clothes also brighter.
Emo music tends to be less morbid than Goth, still very emotional but with a tendency to general whineyness and self-absorption.
Someone else mentioned the Cure, but I'd disagree. The Cure is pure Goth, it almost defines Gothiness in music.
"Emo" is used pejoratively by Goths, indicating that the victim of the insult is narcissistic and shallow.
WIKI is a pretty good reference for Subculture research. If you're bored sometime WIKI "Japanese Pop" then follow the embedded links; you can kill a rainy Sunday being amazed at the intricacies.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)- they have a stoner vibe but your never quite sure if they partake of it or not.
- I see a lot cry for attention and/or to be seen as a "non conformist" but that boat has long since sailed on them.
- lot of emo girls are just plain cute but a lot of the emo guys can appear somewhat..."unusual".
But I will say they are probably one of the least violent of all the subgroups. Never felt intimidated or felt the need to cross the street near them. Emo people that I've known would mostly like hurt themselves than others.
So ya "weirdo" but harmless. Meh.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Action_Patrol
(845 posts)When the term was invented, it was used to describe a subsection of punk. EMOtional Hardcore ala Rites of Spring and Moss Icon. It progressed into its own genre with bands like Mineral, Braid, Bob Tilton and Elliott. This was mid-80s/early90s.
It devolved rapidly and the term that once described music is now a bit of a slur.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)All terms that meant something, and were hijacked and now are assumed to mean something else.
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Emo
KG
(28,751 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)An emotional teen? When I was a teen we had, jocks, nerds, stoners, kickers, preppies and mixtures of all those groups (jock-stoner-kicker). Of course we also had a smoking lounge (I feel old).
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I was definitely a stoner. Long-haired, dope-smokin', Lampoon-reading, hippie freak weirdo who loved Zappa, English prog rock and off-center ideas of all sorts. Read a lot of Tolkein, Bradbury and Vonnegut in those days.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)yeah, there was always one.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and a homemade water pipe I built out of a fancy old whisky bottle and some plumbing fixtures.
I knew a guy with a bong like that, though.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)With the felt-covered can and the colored pebbles in the base. Those things were a must have.
bobclark86
(1,415 posts)And can I go there? Somedays, I don't want to live in this world anymore.
"but now I am hearing teens being called emo."
Well, it's from the 80s, but became big when I was in high school (2000-2004).
I still remember this emo girl I dated for a few weeks... lots of Dashboard Confessional. As in that's all she listened to.
Ugh... "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill meeeeee! So why don't you killlll meeee, so I die HAAAA-PPPPPPEEEEEEEY."
It's been almost 10 years and when that song "Hands Down" is mentioned I can't get it out of my head. No wonder my friends (a jock, a goofball and a D&D-playing goth) came to save me with billiard cues, a wooden training katana and other implements of destruction from the "basement troll."
True story.
valerief
(53,235 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)Drale
(7,932 posts)and less dark and brooding.