May 24
My google homepage gives me an Ask Yahoo every day. Today’s was the best question ever: “What is emo?”
The short answer is emo is best defined by looking at ‘emo kids.’ They have lots of weird hair, tight clothes and can be found at the mall looking sad and hungry. They’re the kids you either want to hug or feed.
If you’re interested in Emo music, bands like My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday seem to popular choices.
About 8 years ago, emo was a nothing more than a genre of music, unheard-of but cool. That was before it went ‘mainstream’ and now it’s a crude caricature of what it was.
Kind of the same thing that happened with Alternative music. Ugh.
“Indie” music (which may or may not be truly independent, ie - unsigned) has to be headed down that same road soon.
Isn’t that a red dude on Sesame Str- oh wait, that’s Elmo. Sorry.
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