The Emo Fad…
So again I’m here posting another blog entry. Only this one talks about the so called “EMO” people of the world.
Though I’m not only talking about the “EMO” population here. I’m also gonna talk about some groups that can be related with the EMOs. These are the “Punks”, and the “Goths”
The So called "EMO"
Well according to www.urbandictionary.com
Emo
- Parted long Bangs
- Black Skin-tight outfit
- Piercings anywhere
- Skinny “GAY” Jeans
- A studded belt
- Messenger/ Sling bag
The Rocker
A “real punk” will never stereotype themselves. To put this in perspective, have you ever heard a cheerleader say “Oh my god, I’m SO prep, that girl over there dressed in all pink is SUCH a wannabe poser.” … I doubt it…if you have, I pity you…greatly….for even knowing OF such a person. When someone’s says “Oh my god, look at that POSER!!!!” Does that honestly make them “punk” and therefore “cool?”
The name also came from punk rock. A form of hard-driving rock ‘n’ roll originating in the 1970s, characterized by harsh lyrics attacking conventional society and popular culture, and often expressing alienation and anger. Rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock. (there are other definitions of this on this site way better than this one) This is what started the whole thing. But punk rock goes AGAINST stereotyping, (that would be the conventional society and popular culture) and calling oneself “punk” is just that.
There are “real punks” and posers. They ARE two separate categories. The above just proves that there are a LOT more posers then there appear to be.
First of all: “real punks”
“Real punks” are technically punk rockers.
A performer or follower of punk rock music.
However, in today’s hypo-heterogeneous music gene pool, there is hardly any real punk music, as a definition. It’s always “punk rock,” “punk pop” whatever. They all count. Punk (as defined above) is a type of music defined by LYRICS and ATTITUDE.
This means that punk rockers are listeners of punk music, with punk music categorized by the message the band is sending.
This is how we get posers.
“Punks” tend to dress a little crazy (crazy to “normal” people, the rest just think blue hair is cool) but it never really became a “fashion” until certain celebrities started calling it that. (Avril, Hilary)
Yes. Sadly, all those old school, before it became popular, punks were screwed over by, you guessing it, POPULAR CULTURE. Suddenly it became “cool” to be “punk.” To dress different, and do crazy things with ones hair and makeup.
This is not to say that everyone who does this, even younger people (and by younger I’m referring to people who couldn’t possibly have been punk rockers before, as in they weren’t born in the 1970’s,) are posers. You are a punk rocker if you listen to punk music. It doesn’t matter what you dress like.
How you DRESS has NOTHING to do with being punk. It means that either A) you honestly like the clothing style that has been termed “punk” and you wear it because of that or B) You’re a POSER trying to be cool and you think your clothes will do that for you and you’re no better than preps who obsess with clothes to become popular and think that other people’s clothing defines them just like it will define you as “punk” and “cool.”
Punks by definition, both above and social don’t WANT to be cool. They want to be themselves and rebel against anything they feel is suppressing them.
The Dark
If someone becomes “goth” because they couldn’t get any friends or are depressed and angry all the time, they are most likely a poser.
- Rebels
- Original
- Suicidal
- Pathetic
- In need of Psychological help
- GAY!!!
lucienlachance said,
January 1, 2009 at 12:50 pm
No one is original, no one is ‘unconventional’. Anyone who attempts to be outside of the ‘norm’, is, in effect, becoming a conformist. That is what makes stupid little teenage social groups so absolutely hypocritical. Adults have them too—I like to call them ‘marriage’ and ‘children’ and the ‘midlife crisis’.
Trying to define such useless groups is pointless—even the kids participating in them don’t seem to know what the hell they are talking about. Posers this, original and unique that…and for what? They’ll do it for a few years, get bored and move on.
What I find incredibly funny about all of it, is that the idea behind it. Most people who participate in such things have fifty friends, all the while claiming ostracism—how is that for hypocrite? You can’t be ‘different’ or an ‘outcast’ if you have friends, it doesn’t work that way. They would all wither away and die if they couldn’t chat with their friends on myspace everyday.
As for music, I am sure My Chemical Romance wouldn’t have made money if there weren’t whiny teenagers looking for idols to worship. It’s unfortunate that such wastes of space have to be perpetuated, but like all ugly, nasty things, I’m sure they will find their end sooner or later. They’ll get old, their fake black hair will fall out, and they’ll get lead poisoning from their cheap white makeup. It happened in the 80s, and it will happen again. They’ll become washed up has-beens and the new generation will find something else equally as loathsome to bow down in front of.
It’s all about belonging, no matter what anyone claims. You either belong with the ‘in’ people or you belong with the ones outside of that circle. Either way, it means that people aren’t alone, plain and simple. They all want the same thing: acceptance, whether it’s from their unpopular friends or the stranger with the mohawk walking down the street. In other words: pathetic, needy, codependent.
Just like everybody else.
Jofer Serapio said,
January 1, 2009 at 9:03 pm
*facepalm*
That was amazing. XD
I see we have the same layout.
Uhh… What’s the code for having the “Read the rest of this entry here” widget? XD
twilightarcher said,
January 1, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Being one of these social groups are actually helpful for some cuz’ it helps them figure out who they are with their fellow companions who are also interested in the same thing.
Still all people have this face/ stage in their lives. A goth in highschool might grow up to be a business man or an accountant. The jocks might grow up as architects. No clique in highschool can live on in a person’s life forever. All people grow out of it and change their lives for themselves.
lucienlachance said,
January 3, 2009 at 6:59 pm
People join groups because they find them interesting—when they integrate, they conform. In essence, they aren’t becoming themselves or ‘discovering’ who they are, they are just participating in yet another thing that will grant them acceptance. All they are doing is becoming a character.
I sincerely doubt any of those kids with the exact same head of black hair and black clothes are finding themselves when all they are doing is following the lead of the pack, whether its right in front of them, or a million miles away somewhere. You don’t know who you are until you face the nitty gritty, so to speak. That’s something you have to do on your own, which is exactly why there are so many adults who never went through that process and have problems later on—the thought of being alone for five seconds is far too frightening for those types, so they never really did figure out just what it is they are doing.
You are correct however about most people facing this stage in life. It’s pretty normal. That’s exactly why it’s stupid. A matter of opinion of course, but anyway…. You’d think after watching everyone else do it, someone would wise up. Maybe that’s expecting too much though.
I don’t really think most of them change their lives for themselves, not really. I think as a whole, everyone is trying to fit into a mold, whether they are conscious of it or not. I think that we just move onto new molds that are socially acceptable for our particular age group. That’s why when some 40 year old guy who’s a bachelor and doesn’t have any kids gets looked at funny, or gets the cold shoulder from his buddies who think “oh, he can’t possibly know because he doesn’t have kids”. But yet he’s got those other friends who would have kittens if he settled down and married. You get what I mean? So really, we’re all just conforming, making new groups then moving on when those ones stop looking so sparkly, or are considered “too young”.
It’s a construction of society, really. Everything limits you after a certain age. You get out of highschool with a mohawk and a tongue piercing and try to find a job anywhere besides Hot Topic or a tattoo shop, you’re likely going to have little luck. You ‘have’ to grow out of it, or else you won’t survive. All that happens is that you morph into something else, some other societal ideal. Even if it is ‘rebellious’, chances are someone is trying to fit in somewhere, maybe just not in the so-called “conformist” part of society.
Everyone conforms. “Non-conformists” are more hypocritical than the people they try to be different from.