Can you be emo if you have curly hair? Or would you need to get straightening treatments?

I seriously doubt you have any idea what I understand or don't understand about this sub-culture or music.

Do you really imagine that this sub-culture or music is so different than all the other sub-cultures or music that has come before? Or will come after?

Wrap your mind around this sub-culture or music for a bit:



Just imagine this is the emo of the day...

A little wierd, if you can do it.



I'd love to hear you explain the point of emo, if you would.

Emo kids usually ride fixed gear/track bikes.. but are scared to race...

The reason is that it's hard to kiss another man and change gears at the same time.

I respect fixed gear/track bike racers but when these kids desecrate beautiful road bikes it gets to me.

I dunno, fixed gear and SS guys (in my experience) are ostensibly emo looking - but not that emo. If emo rode a bike it would probably be a rusty electra or schwinn or something. I think FG/SS is a bit of it's own thing... maybe more Jeff Buckley than Dashboard Confessional, more Wilco than Sugercult. More ford fairlaine than Honda civic..

ps. Is it even possible to hate your dad while riding a bike?

Maybe it's a fine line (and maybe my observations are way off-base!)

Haha I think you're more on the right track. There is a fine line between emo and hipster to the untrained eye. But its pretty different. Its almost just purely an age thing. I think what happens is that emo kids (ages 12-18) wake up one day and realize theyre not so cool anymore when they can grow facial hair, so they progressive shift to more of an indie/hipster scene.

Youre more likely to find an emo kid on a skateboard. When they grow up they get a fixie. Emo kids are more likely to wear to wear tight jeans and a tight band/skate shirt. Hipsters keep the jeans but generally get rid of the band shirt, and just replace it with a dirty shirt and a beer (only pbr or old style is allowed). Emo kids wear makeup, the **** you see on the hipsters face is probably just dirt. =)

OMG...that is about the best way to sum it up...

If you dont know what a EMO is do not reply.


waiitt...does that mean if we DO know what it is we HAVE to reply? and why'd you put emo in all caps???

That's it. It's over, I'm calling it, gentlemen. This is OFFICIALLY the gayest post ever.

I don't care. Post anything you want. Post pics of yourself on your ride dressed in assless chaps sporting a handlebar mustache. It won't come close to this thread...

What is EMO?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erTBEcLCY_k

Oh my god if I'd been drinking milk it would have come out my nose...

I've never been into he dress style of emo, but I do listen to a decent amount of "emo" style music. I think the one post about indie vs emo would be a good synapse of me. I like alot of acoustic music, death cab for cutie, Brand New, ect, but other then that I wouldn't call myself an emo kid. For wardrobe, I am all about a semi tight pair of jeans and a kinda tight dress shirt or t-shirt. I think thats more of a metro thing then anything else lol.

Of course I don't know with any certainty what you do or don't know about anything, but my presumption is based on the fact that it's a highly obscure, extremely mis-represented sub-genre of punk rock. There are probably bands that could still be considered emo in the "classical" sense, but I'm not aware of any contemporary stuff. The fact that the movement in music is now characterized by this infamous group of insecure teenagers that are stereotyped as sad little kids with floppy haircuts is a testament to its death. There's no central message to the music, and there certainly isn't a lifestyle/clothing style to be associated with it.

Here's a good description
Here's a song that embodies the genre pretty well. This is the now defunct band Hoover, who are on Dischord records, Fugazi's record label.

https://www.u.arizona.edu/~bameyer/SideCarFreddie.mp3

emocow

ironic, considering the fact that you cited a band who that hasn't been played together since 1983, most likely before you were born.

I don't think any cyclist could be a true emo, as you need <10" calves and thighs to fit into those ridiculous 'drainpipe' jeans they wear.

Not to mention the danger when drafting caused by lack of depth perception from only being able to see out of one eye.

Considering emo losers are typically < 18, at 24, you're too told for this convo too....and really....aren't you glad? I sure as **** am.

I believe from the bottom of my heart that no one is ever too old to make fun of emo kids =).

...And the winner is!

Just another generation of kids, trying to be different in the same way.

Well, this little ditty actually reminds me a little of UK Squeeze from the late 70's. Bet most of you old guys on here were listening to the BeeGees then.

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