My quest to become as emo as possible.

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aww you guys are taking to this really well! well done. some useful stuff i can work with here. so far i have:

- a whole load of weird guitar bands noone has heard off

- a pair of jeans with the logo cut off

- emo pumps (vans)

- emo glasses (a la buddy H)

- a pin badge that means NOTHING pinned under my left pants pocket

- a black short sleeve shirt

- a bracelet given to me by a girl

- im growing my hair and its dyed black

- i have started a Blog. and thats an EMO blog. (pm me for a link ;()

- and ive been overusing this icon:

- oh i covered a motown song with my flatmate playing some acoustic guitar in the background.

i think im almost there.... no?

 

[Against Will]

Wear ironic T-shirts.

Claim you're not emo.

 

[IAMERICCOCHRANE]

Its mighty tempting to post some photoshopped photos that are constantly posted on guitar.com, but no, they are far from appropriate..

..but its mighty tempting

Whats your username at guitar.com? I used to go there, but was kicked out for reasons which shall go unnamed. Tell them uglybass said hi.

 

[jazzbo]

I'm going to pretend that this is music-related, because, it sorta is.

 

[IAMERICCOCHRANE]

And I also thought of some more emo nessesities.

-one of those spiked/studded belts
-a spiked/studded braclet
-wear a tie (avril is emo right?)

 

[Toasted]

- studded belt, check

- already got my bracelet. and its more emo cause a girl gave it to me.

- avril is not emo. you heathen. she is so not emo im going to write a poem about it.

 

[The Golden Boy]

Cheer up, Emo boy...

 

[Brendan]

Covering the Motown song was a step in the right direction. but you have to ironically cover 80s kitsch songs.

 

[ole Jason]

Along with all the weird guitar rock you need to be into a lot of 80's metal bands (or atleast wear their t-shirts). It's also important to like a lot of alt-country like drag the rivers, drive by truckers, all that stuff.

 

[kirbywrx]

Claim you're not emo.

'Im not emo, i just enjoy the image, the music, and the repititive music'

 

[Mudfuzz]

Covering the Motown song was a step in the right direction. but you have to ironically cover 80s kitsch songs.

OR doing bland ballady versions of blackflag songs.

 

[CoolHat]

Carry a small notebook (one that´s made out of paper, not a laptop) with you. Then you can write some deep poetry in it on public places. All this while curled up in a very uncomfortable looking pose of course (because you´re soooo alone in this world). Remember to look into eternity with profound sadness in your eyes when you´re not writing.

 

[lump]

Being hopelessly out of touch with pop culture, this thread has been very informative. Usually these things cross generational lines, it just that we have different names for them. I'm not 100% sure, but based on what I'm reading, back in my day we used to call people who meet the criteria described, "girls."

 

[Brendan]

Being hopelessly out of touch with pop culture, this thread has been very informative. Usually these things cross generational lines, it just that we have different names for them. I'm not 100% sure, but based on what I'm reading, back in my day we used to call people who meet the criteria described, "girls."

Well, if you've been to an idie, emo, or hardcore show in the past couple years, they sure dress like women.

 

[Mr. Zebraface]

Most of you have horrible conceptions on what emo is and its pretty sad that you're all making fun of something that obviously most of you don't understand. Guess what, if its on mtv, its not real emo! I am by no means emo, but I do own my fair share of emo albums.

Download a few songs and be less ignorant about the genre

Bright Eyes - "Something Vague" (depressing)
Onelinedrawing - "We Had A Deal" (kind of sad yet happy song)
Rites Of Spring - "For Want Of" (bitter)
Hot Water Music - "Trademark" (rocker)
Braid - "The Chandelier Swing" (depressing)
Sunny Day Real Estate - "Song About An Angel"
Mineral - "Parking Lot"
From Autumn To Ashes - "The after dinner payback" (don't want to be caught in the pit during this song)


I tried varying the list as much as possible (some emo is polar opposites of others)

See, this is why JR is one of my favourite TBers, he sticks up for emo, and has awesomeness music tastes! He is right, go listen to Bright Eyes and Sunny Day Real Estate and be educated, don't go slating bands just because you heard they were "emo." The MTV generation will ear-mark anything with melodies or guitars emo nowadays.

 

[Paul A]

Being hopelessly out of touch with pop culture, this thread has been very informative. Usually these things cross generational lines, it just that we have different names for them. I'm not 100% sure, but based on what I'm reading, back in my day we used to call people who meet the criteria described, "girls."

Congratulations Lump,
This post was nearly responsible for me drowning in coffee.
(Don't you love how it goes straight up your nose when you're really laughing!)

 

[Paul A]

Get your Emo name here?

http://iam.bmezine.com/emo.exe

 

[Spanky]

Is sheep poo emo?

I'm confused.

Just get a tighter t-shirt that shows of your nipples. That should do it.

OK...I thought I was a pretty up to date kinda guy...but someone slipped this genre in on me while I was puking-snotslinging-drunk apparently. Would one of you kind souls please explain to me in detail what EMO is? Ive been noticing the Buddy Holly glasses and the black hair dye and black T shirts but I just figured it was some kinda retro-rockabilly phase coming round. Obviously it goes way deeper than that?
Forgive my ignorance...Im from out of town.
Thanks!

 

[Atshen]

*** is the difference between EMO and GOTH???

 

[Toasted]

*** is the difference between EMO and GOTH???

Normal Emo boy:

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Weirdo Goth Boy:

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all is clear now?