tiaw

no i'm only twenty...

about 3 years ago, (where i live anyway) it was ever so trendy to be a goth/gothic, then it was ever so trendy to become garage rock, then it moved onto indie. doesnt everyone see what's happening here?

the people in each social group critisise the other's for their taste in music/dress sense/way of thinking and then go on to dress/listen/think in their own certain way which is anti-confirmist! but they are actually conforming to anti-conformity.

emo is the perfect example. recently loads of people i know are so quick to say "I'm emo", "i listen to emo music", "i'm an emo-kid" what the &*^%?

They dont like other social trends yet they follow their own? They try to be different, yet everyone in that group is similar... if a band is not emo enough (even if they might like it) they cant say so in their social group because it's not emo enough (or whatever the genre is).

Point is, young people are always trying to be part of something for acceptance and trying to classify themselves as something rather than just being an individual! Who cares if you like something you shouldn't?

I have one of the most diverse taste's in music, clothing and pastimes of anyone i know, simply because i really dont care if i fit into someone else's idea of what is "emo" or "indie" or "gothic" or "pop" or whatever the hell else?

Question is, why cant other's be like this?

(i put this in the emo forum because emo is the current trendy thing to be apparently and i'm expecting more flames that way )

spearmint

Let kids be kids...Being a kid and dressing a certain way is a way for them to fit in...Emo is a type of music so if they say "i listen to emo music" I don't see the problem, it is just another genre of music just as pop is...it's not a way of life or a way to dress etc...If this really annoys you this much you may need some help because all kids do it. They do it to "fit in" they'll grow out of it...in there own time

eViL

if kids want to fit in listening a kind of music or dressing in a different way, why not? the problem is that kids that are "heavies" hate kids that are "poppies" and emokids hate hiphopkids and all that stuff...

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spearmint

yeah, I'd say a bigger problem with kids is how they all want to hurt people for being who they are...being nasty just because they don't agree etc

franscar

Adults are exactly the same.

ArtistInTheAmbulance

That's just the facts of life, there are too many people that think everyone should stick to their rules and their way of life. When you're a kid and you're being picked on, you think "It's ok, they'll mature one day and feel guilty for how they made my life hell"... Tis just sad that hardly ever happens

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Cannon Fodder

its kool to be emo nowerdays
its all about the image
you all like bands no1 has ever heard off because its "kool"
you have to wear tight black cloths cos all the emo kids do
its "kool" to have parents who abuse you cos that makes you proper emo
you have to be depressed and slit your wrists alot
so bassically emo kids are just attension seeking ****tards who all need to be beating with a baseball bat with the inscriptions "AC/DC" carved on it.

its not "kool" to be depressed, its actually quite sad.
your not going to be popular or get a girlfriend by being emo.
you just depress others around u
do us all a favour and kill yourselves, and rid us all of your depressing attitude and whineing about being dumped

this goes for all your goths too.

by the way, im a rocker, i like AC/DC, Led Zep, Iron Maiden, Green Day, Bad Religion.......HAPPY bands

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Zealious

Emo isn't the new trend. Pop imitating emo is the new trend. See Story of the Year, Taking Back Sunday, Alkaline Trio, etc. Then again I don't hate those bands, its mostly the kids that want to feel like they belong to some genre even though they have no clue what emo really is. You can thank corporate record companies that just want to sell a couple more records, and the ignorant critics who want to look more important for this emo fad.

Thrice

The problem with kids these days is you go out of town for the weekend and you happen to pop on the comp and see some effing retard named eru. Sorry i dont have time to delete his posts, but ill work on it when i get back.

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Raine

I like the sarcasm.

Anyhow, . . . . .
Oh crudamucker somebody give me a damned nuttter butter. i haven't had one in two days and I think I'm seeing spots.

So at any rate, I think that a new trend is set every day. About a year ago a trend was to wear safety pins in your ears which I still do from time to time. And i never did it because I liked goth music so much or anything. I just thought it looked cool.
And the whole black clothes all the time is not a must. It's a goth thing I know but i know plenty of people who don't wear all black clothes and consider themselves goth just because they listen to the music as much as the next person.
And it is not necessarily punk to have piercings covering more than half your body and in places that I don't wanna know about.
So why don't all of yous just hold hands, sing kumbayah and get over it. Be appreciative of the fact that you have ears and no what good music sounds like.
And the problem with kids today is that so easily succumb to peer pressure. I know that may seem like a foreign word in a thread like this but it's true.
Yous are all so quick to change your ways and style because your best friend says that all black is in. But then the next day it's tye dye shirts. Get a life, get over all of these crazy fads and just enjoy the futhermucking bizacci music.

And in all honesty I don't give two nutter butters for all of this stereotypical stuff. It's pointless. Through most of what I've said, I've been trying to say that it doesn't matter what you wear or how you wear your hair. What it all boils down to is that the music will still be at your dispsoal whether you meet the stereotypical criteria to listen to it. I mean relaly. It's not like if you don't waer all black the music will just disappear. Yous are all smoking.

Man that was cheesy and off topic. (I want my fothermucking bizacci sugar. Confizzled you are I know. But that's ok cause i'm all ceecee-dizzled out. I'm on the fritz and I'm holding on to the edge of my life with a single starburst and the PS2 I built all by myself with some help from my friend)


Peace out
Gone for sugar but will be back in 2.

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