"Emo" the new "Goth?"

[ChadTower]

This is one of the largest periods of generational gap in modern history.  Technology has become so prevalent and penetrated so thoroughly so fast that today's adults have no way to relate to kids who have grown up always having cell phones, a mature internet, the ability to steal any IP they could possibly want with no effort invested.  Some of us may understand the technology itself but we just can't comprehend the way the kids, who have never known anything else, view it.

I'd say this is the largest generational gap in the US since the early 20th century when the first major wave of European immigrants didn't know how to deal with their American born children.

[Havok]

Does Mike Deuce make vinyl emo player stickers?

 

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I've always thought this song was pretty funny:
Scroll down and 'Play' the song: Emo Days -- Daddy, Why Did You Wear Girl Pants?

http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=4acb15a122bb6caf40592c81ca976c22



mrC

[ChadTower]

Eh, in 12th grade I had a pair of pants so ripped up I had to wear sweatpants underneath so my junk didn't hang out.  Everyone dresses stupidly as a teenager.

[shmokes]

I guess I AM getting old.  I look at teens today and think to my self "What a bunch of puds..." 

Um, yeah, that's an affirmative.  If you are calling people "puds" you are definitely getting old.

[Loki]

I often had pants with bondage straps and zippers, tight black stirts, army boots, wearing some black eyeliner matrix style coat and walk into some club or bar where they play top40 music and such
Always fun

My party days are over now, but I'm still wearing black only, still got my 6 earrings and a hole in my lip from a piercing I had ^^;

I can get into most styles kids have now... but girls pants for guys?! 

[ChadTower]

It's in style to be gay now.  Hard to fathom but true.  With the peer pressure in high school to be macho, though, you can't actually be gay and be accepted so I guess you just have to look gay.

It's all about what the girls want, anyway.  Teenage boys will do anything to get laid.  If the girls didn't like that look the guys wouldn't dress that way.  If the girls wanted guys dressed like clowns, the guys would be dressed like clowns. 

[Angry_Radish]

 
I can see it happening in my head now...
No THERE would be a fashion that no-one would say was taken from a previous decade like most of the fashions nowadays 

If the girls didn't like that look the guys wouldn't dress that way.  If the girls wanted guys dressed like clowns, the guys would be dressed like clowns. 

[ChadTower]

It would be stealing directly from the early 70s.

[Loki]

If the girls wanted guys dressed like clowns, the guys would be dressed like clowns. 

Already been done... ever heared of krump or krumping? that often goes with clowns

[danny_galaga]

lol. thing is, there arent really 'emo' bands. there are some like 'my chemical romance' that emos like, but nothing ties it together like punk music, or heavy metal. emos listening to emo music is like scientologists listening to scientologist music- it is that genre purely because they happen to listen to it. oh, for the good old days when anarachy came with a viscious 2/2 beat and they did tasteful things like spit on people and pierce their septums with safety pins...

Not true at all.  Like I mentioned, "emo" started in the 80's with the emocore music movement, and it is most definitely a specific and unique genre of music.

The lines have been blurred ridiculously at this point because emo has been commercialized and emo for MTV is now the goal of labels.  There is definitely a different style to emo music though.  Bands like My Chemical Romance are and never were "true emo" but they have been adopted by the scene, so in that sense you are right..... but the same thing happened with punk music when it went mainstream. 

yes, but if you played the hummingbirds, an emo would just laugh at you. all they have is that name borrowed from some earlier loose description of something they arent interested in...

[pointdablame]

yes, but if you played the hummingbirds, an emo would just laugh at you. all they have is that name borrowed from some earlier loose description of something they arent interested in...

and there are millions of kids that grew up thinking Blink 182 was true punk music.  It doesn't mean that what you said previously was true.  Emo is still a distinctive genre of music.