I like to shop in downtown Downer's Grove.
Posted on 03/27/2008 8:14:52 AM PDT by BGHater
Hey, you, emo kid in Kansas rocking out to Hawthorne Heights as you thumb through the current issue of Alternative Press and draw a cracked heart on the rubber toe of your Jack Purcell. You think you got reason to be doleful? Well, then check out your ilk in Mexico. They've been getting their asses kicked lately as part of a country-wide anti-emo movement and now they're fighting back (this clip is in Spanish, but images speak louder than words. Check out the dudes arming themselves with leather belts. What is this, West Side Story?).
LA Weekly's Daniel Hernandez has been covering the phenomenon for the paper and on his blog Intersections. "A bizarre wave of emo-bashings is sweeping across Mexico. The movement is being generated on message boards and social networking sites by non-emo youth who highly dislike the emo look and attitude. Hernandez reports that it started on March 7th in Queretaro where about 800 young people hunted down emos in the city's Centro Historico for some head bashing. "The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital."
So what brought all this about? Good old fashioned machismo? Harry24 gives a lengthy discourse here on the "Anti Emo Death Squad" page at last.fm, and even theorizes that the growing emo scene is part of a government conspiracy to cultivate emo kids because they can be easily manipulated (unlike metalheads).
But Harry24 best sums up his emo hatred here (broken English and grammar left intact): "An interesting fact of this, is that the Heavy Metal community is not the only one against emos, we can also find that, pop-listeners, skaters, punks, goths, and other people are against emos here in Mexico. But why metal/rock listeners are not the only ones against emos??? The answer is simple, emo attitude here in Mexico is anti-youngster: they do not drink, they do not have sex, they do not have fun, they go to concerts just to cry, they go to parties just to sit in a corner and cry, and they feel victims of everything, it is really, a very stupid behavior."
Wow, and you thought the rednecks in your town were bad. [Daily Swarm]
ROFL!!!!!!!!
One of my favorites too.
I wish that my lawn was Emo... then it would cut itself.
Rock and Roll PING!
Mods vs. rockers brought into the 21st century.
See post 64... Emo music was around in yours and my day.. and it was pretty cool stuff even then...
Sounds more like "straight edge" punk.
As opposed to the other fashion cliques who are ganging up on them.
Blame it on the damned BMI index that dictates a guy and a gal should weigh the same.
What was the Velvet Underground then? Or Joy Division? Or Patti Smith?
I like to shop in downtown Downer's Grove.
Kids who follow a gene of goth music... that started basically during the 80's.
See post 64 for a example... though I never dressed or played the part.. I did love the music.
Don't believe that BS for a second.
Wikipedia is not infallible.
EMO came from Goth, PERIOD.
“,,,a bunch of crybabies with self-inflicted “depression.”
And when they are old enough they will vote Democrat.
I'm so creative and sad. No one was ever sad before me.
My daughter was a cutter. She cut her self because she clsoed herself off emotionally after a taumatic incident in her life. Thank God she is finally cured of that. Unfortuantely she replaced cutting with tattooing.
Joy Division definately was emo in it's time... I never listed to the other two.. can't say...
Did manage to go to a Cure concert in it's day and the dress and style were quite simular to today's emo dress. LOL, being a country hick, I was probable the only upbeat dressed person in that crowd... I stood out like a sore thumb... but they didn't bother me. I never understood the dress the part culture of emo's... but I did enjoy some of the music.
Other groups I remember off hand from the 80's that could be classified as emo today...
Clan of Xymox
Cocteau Twins
The Smiths (Meat is Murder)
Wolfsheim
friggin fags
Oh, you mean kids that need a good ass-whippin’. Why didn’t you just say so!
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