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

I just wanted to say this whole forum is pretty chill. I'm from a small town where no one else listens to emo so this is awesome... when I go through posts here I always say "hey i know that song!", "i love that band!" or something along those lines. Anyway, big ups to everyone here for having such good taste in music and giving small town emo kids a way to access new songs and bands.

question of the day:

do you think emo is becoming too trendy, as a style and/or as a genre?

I think the whole thing has exploded rather at the moment. Emo has become a trendy buzzword that a lot of people use, which has caused a LOT of resentment and bitterness among some of the older fans of the genre (you only have to read a few topics on here to get a feel of that) and then there are of course the newer "fans" of the genre who only go to gigs or buy the cd's in order to look "cool" to whoever it is they're trying to impress, and in the middle there are the people who have only recently been in a position to hear the music, and enjoy it for what it really is.

Personally I think it's great that a lot of essentially small, local based bands have started to make an impact outside their immediate vicinity, and like with all other local based movements, it's only a matter of time before it becomes the new hit for the MTV's (see the rise and fall of Seattle in the early '90's). The real test will be how well the bands cope with it, and whether it changes them and their music for the better or for the worse. I couldn't care if they are all smacked off their tits on drugs and whores every night of the week so long as they keep on pumping out good records, and although some of these bands' original fans will turn their backs on them for becoming famous, I don't think that makes much difference in the long run.

I feel emo has always been around. It's just we've formulated this concept that emo is sad lyrics and the idea of the trendy new punk bands all in one. When really....its been here all along. Neil Young and Bob Dylan could be considered examples of the earlier ones, it's debatable. In the 80's going towards the 90's it was Fugazi, and Rites of Spring, who became the first labeled emo band. During the 90's and on to the millenium, emo music included pearl jam, hum, sunny day real estate, built to spill, braid, and so on. MTV and the redundant amount of other music channels which are now on tv will prove that its all just a trend and made to believe new and fun...no history is ever brought up. Consequently, when people even dare to mention greenday and blink 182 to be the first punk bands......ouch that one hurts.. The point is TV lies. Do your reading, and learn something true.

emo is currently enjoying a bit of an increase in popularity, but that will die down before the end of the decade, and emo will go back to being a more underground and intimate scene.

uh huh
 

i would go out on a limb and say.... yes.

"music scenes crazy
bands start up
each and everyday
i saw another one just the other day
a special new band."

the only reason "emo" has become trendy is because of bands like finch and taking back sunday which aren't even real emo. but I agree with emo kid soon it will all die down.

Emo is not becoming trendy only a select few actually know what emo is the bands that everyone is starting to listen to is'nt emo i would say all the greasy ass gobblens who think they are emo and the fav bands consist of tbs,yc,gc,sp will be gone in a mater a months or the next time the band wagon stops by
check this out http://www.fourfa.com/

sigh*
 

Yeah Yeah, fugazi, rites of spring. All the "real emo" as what people think.
Taking back sunday<(example) you'll all say are not emo or some ppl say Femo. But i think it's new-age emo ya know? Genres evolve.
Rites of spring and Fugazi are like Old Skool emo i'd say.
Bring on the new stuff. But thats my opinion...and hey I listen to the likes of TBS, Northstar and Finch so what do i know. Right ppl?

First wave: Indian Summer, Moss Icon, Hoover, Still Life, Navio Forge, etc.
Second Wave: Cap'n Jazz, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral, etc.
Third Wave: Thursday, Senses Fail, etc.

Agree or disagree I don't really care

emo = emotional...if any of you didnt know that :\

[16:38:17] marissa says:
hey, emo [the music genre] means emotional.correct?
[16:38:25] [Duane.] says:
Yeah
[16:38:28] [Duane.] says:
it does.

hence the sappy lyrics and all

wow, i look so emo[tional] today!

That would be the perfect example of the bitter and resentful soul I talked about in my first post. Tragic really.

are you talking about me? or about the kids who listen to try to be cool?

Well, I was more or less thanking you for proving my point.

this kid knows what hes talking about still life f***en rocks :beer:

i dont think emo is becoming trendy or at leat not where i am because i am one of the 4 or 5 emo people in my school and i would say at leat 90 percent of the school had a shirt that says "emo is dead get the F*** of my scene" or something along those ways

how the hell are you an emo people?

I think emo's becoming a cult now.

define cult.

Something that is very secret and closed, and nobody really knows what's going on, and it's a bit scary because loads of people take it all incredibly seriously, and these are normal, smart people, and the effects of the cult turn them into crazy people.

That's pretty much what happens when anyone mentions emo.

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