Emo Culture
May 31st 2006 03:45
As much as I dislike the Emo movement, I'll try to not be too biased against them.
To start with, I'll explain why I don't like the Emo culture (lots of generalisations ahead); It's glorification of suicide, in which it is turned into a fashion statement, is terrible. I'm not one of those who believes that suicide is sinful or immoral, its just that, like many things, Emo has taken their acceptence of suicide too far.
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Another example of going too far, is apparent in Emo's rejection of normal society's stigma against people (especially guys) showing emotions. Now, that sounds like a pretty damn good idea the Emo movement has, but they have made it so that in their counter-culture, people must show emotion, and that that emotion must be depression or anger.
Moving on, Emo is responsible for some pretty good things too - they promote vegetarianism for moral reasons (which is one of their links to Straight Edge) They are also for the most part pacifistic and accepting, which can't be said for some of those who dislike Emo's.
Not many know this, but Emo has been around since the 80's in Washington, when it branched off from the Hardcore sceen due to dissilusionment with the violence that was occuring at the time. It remained a Washington only genre until the 90's, when a new generation of Emo bands started off, influenced also by Indie. It was in this decade that Emo became considerably calmer.
By 2000, most of these bands had lost their underground following, as they became incresingly mainstream. However, as these bands were still seen as Emo, they deffinition of the genre became much more mainstream, much softer and, well, basically turned into what it was today.
Now, I need some variety of Conclusion... Hmm, I can't think of one, check tomorrow's post, which will be about Emo Music, for a conclusion
To start with, I'll explain why I don't like the Emo culture (lots of generalisations ahead); It's glorification of suicide, in which it is turned into a fashion statement, is terrible. I'm not one of those who believes that suicide is sinful or immoral, its just that, like many things, Emo has taken their acceptence of suicide too far.
Alas, unlike most stereotypical cartoons, alot of emo's dress identical to this, which isn't a good thing for any counter-culture
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Another example of going too far, is apparent in Emo's rejection of normal society's stigma against people (especially guys) showing emotions. Now, that sounds like a pretty damn good idea the Emo movement has, but they have made it so that in their counter-culture, people must show emotion, and that that emotion must be depression or anger.
Moving on, Emo is responsible for some pretty good things too - they promote vegetarianism for moral reasons (which is one of their links to Straight Edge) They are also for the most part pacifistic and accepting, which can't be said for some of those who dislike Emo's.
Not many know this, but Emo has been around since the 80's in Washington, when it branched off from the Hardcore sceen due to dissilusionment with the violence that was occuring at the time. It remained a Washington only genre until the 90's, when a new generation of Emo bands started off, influenced also by Indie. It was in this decade that Emo became considerably calmer.
By 2000, most of these bands had lost their underground following, as they became incresingly mainstream. However, as these bands were still seen as Emo, they deffinition of the genre became much more mainstream, much softer and, well, basically turned into what it was today.
Now, I need some variety of Conclusion... Hmm, I can't think of one, check tomorrow's post, which will be about Emo Music, for a conclusion
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