I Am 36% Emo
Jun. 26th, 2006 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotOkay, so my sisters listen to this one song that kinda makes fun of Emos. That's okay. But still, I think they think it's such a bad thing. I think that they think Emos (short for emotional) have the 'hair', 'clothes', etc. They think people are Emo when they look at someone they've never met.
If guys wear tight jeans they're emo. What the heck?
Ya, I'm emotional, so what? Does that mean i cut myself? NO!
i know that they're just joking, but they're joking in a way that seems to me they're bashing Emo's a lot.
Gragh.
--from a friend of mine's MySpace blog (she's 11-years-old)
Sometime in the '90s or earlier, "emo" went - without my noticing at all (honest to God, I didn't even hear the term until 1999) - from being an attribute of music to being a subgenre of alternative rock. [EDIT: Er, more like sometime in the mid '80s. Shows how on top of things I am.] And sometime in the teenworld '00s the term went from being an attribute of people to being a social class like "skater" and "goth," and it now (or several years ago) seems to have crossed the threshold into being the crucial social term in white U.S. teendom. Or that's what my ignorant and distant appraisal of MySpace is telling me.
[ ] You hate the world
[ ] You hate society.
[ ] You think vampires are cool.
[x] You write poetry
[ ] you have dyed your hair black.
[ ] You wear black/blue eyeliner
[x] You write poetry that's not for school.
[ ] You are freakishly obsessed with darkness.
[ ] You think love is a waste of time.
[ ] You've given up on the world.
Total = 2
[ ] You've shopped at Hot Topic
[ ] You've spent over $100 at Hot Topic.
[ ] You wear more bracelets than a Russian...
[ ] You own a dog collar, that's not for your dog.
[x] When you're not tan or at the beach you're extremely pale.
[x] You are a member of a poetry site. [Well, I'm a member of a writers group that includes poets]
[ ] Your screen name has been an oxymoron. (ex: cold fire)
[ ] Your screen name has/had X's in it.
Total = 2
[x] You have been referred to as scary.
[x] You have been referred to as demented.
[x] You have been referred to as weird.
[x] You have been known to hate some teachers.
[x] You have been known to cause trouble.
[ ] Your hair has been dyed an unnatural color.
[ ] You have/had at least one photoshopped picture on myspace.
[ ] You think pictures look better in greyscale or sepia tone.
[ ] You have been referred to as evil.
[x] You are scared of yourself sometimes.
Total = 6
[x] Suicide has crossed your mind
[x] You have screamed before
[x] You use big words that no one has ever heard before on occasion.
[x] you've seen The Exorcist.
[x] You liked The Exorcist.
[ ] You've seen Saw/Saw 2.
[ ] You liked Saw/Saw 2.
[ ] You've done voodoo.
[ ] You hate sports.
[ ] You dress up as the most morbid thing posssible on Halloween.
Total = 5
[ ] Halloween is one of your favorite holidays.
[ ] You have an obsession with fire.
[ ] You have only a couple of actual friends.
[x] You're not afraid of spiders.
[ ] You have had a conversation about how you want to die.
[ ] You've painted your nails black
[ ] One or more of your myspace pics had writing on them.
[ ] You have had the word "...." in your display name. [Something seems to have gotten lost here]
[x] You love art.
[x] You like art with negative meanings
Total = 3
GRAND TOTAL: 18
Multiply the grand total by 2 for your percentage. "I'm 36% Emo."
Btw, where Mary Gaitskill grew up in the 1960s, "emotional" was used as a derogatory noun, as in "She's an emotional."
If guys wear tight jeans they're emo. What the heck?
Ya, I'm emotional, so what? Does that mean i cut myself? NO!
i know that they're just joking, but they're joking in a way that seems to me they're bashing Emo's a lot.
Gragh.
--from a friend of mine's MySpace blog (she's 11-years-old)
Sometime in the '90s or earlier, "emo" went - without my noticing at all (honest to God, I didn't even hear the term until 1999) - from being an attribute of music to being a subgenre of alternative rock. [EDIT: Er, more like sometime in the mid '80s. Shows how on top of things I am.] And sometime in the teenworld '00s the term went from being an attribute of people to being a social class like "skater" and "goth," and it now (or several years ago) seems to have crossed the threshold into being the crucial social term in white U.S. teendom. Or that's what my ignorant and distant appraisal of MySpace is telling me.
[ ] You hate the world
[ ] You hate society.
[ ] You think vampires are cool.
[x] You write poetry
[ ] you have dyed your hair black.
[ ] You wear black/blue eyeliner
[x] You write poetry that's not for school.
[ ] You are freakishly obsessed with darkness.
[ ] You think love is a waste of time.
[ ] You've given up on the world.
Total = 2
[ ] You've shopped at Hot Topic
[ ] You've spent over $100 at Hot Topic.
[ ] You wear more bracelets than a Russian...
[ ] You own a dog collar, that's not for your dog.
[x] When you're not tan or at the beach you're extremely pale.
[x] You are a member of a poetry site. [Well, I'm a member of a writers group that includes poets]
[ ] Your screen name has been an oxymoron. (ex: cold fire)
[ ] Your screen name has/had X's in it.
Total = 2
[x] You have been referred to as scary.
[x] You have been referred to as demented.
[x] You have been referred to as weird.
[x] You have been known to hate some teachers.
[x] You have been known to cause trouble.
[ ] Your hair has been dyed an unnatural color.
[ ] You have/had at least one photoshopped picture on myspace.
[ ] You think pictures look better in greyscale or sepia tone.
[ ] You have been referred to as evil.
[x] You are scared of yourself sometimes.
Total = 6
[x] Suicide has crossed your mind
[x] You have screamed before
[x] You use big words that no one has ever heard before on occasion.
[x] you've seen The Exorcist.
[x] You liked The Exorcist.
[ ] You've seen Saw/Saw 2.
[ ] You liked Saw/Saw 2.
[ ] You've done voodoo.
[ ] You hate sports.
[ ] You dress up as the most morbid thing posssible on Halloween.
Total = 5
[ ] Halloween is one of your favorite holidays.
[ ] You have an obsession with fire.
[ ] You have only a couple of actual friends.
[x] You're not afraid of spiders.
[ ] You have had a conversation about how you want to die.
[ ] You've painted your nails black
[ ] One or more of your myspace pics had writing on them.
[ ] You have had the word "...." in your display name. [Something seems to have gotten lost here]
[x] You love art.
[x] You like art with negative meanings
Total = 3
GRAND TOTAL: 18
Multiply the grand total by 2 for your percentage. "I'm 36% Emo."
Btw, where Mary Gaitskill grew up in the 1960s, "emotional" was used as a derogatory noun, as in "She's an emotional."
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Date: 2006-06-26 06:08 pm (UTC)EMO is said to have been invented by ILM's colin meeder, of THE HATED (i believe)
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Date: 2006-06-26 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-26 06:18 pm (UTC)Check my MySpace page today (June 26) for my song of the day, under "Music" in my "Interests" column on the left, and you'll see my speculative fantasies about the pre-emo emos. (Weren't Fugazi the first people saddled with the term? Maybe I should do a bit of research, see what Wikipedia and Allmusic have to say.)
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Date: 2006-06-26 06:24 pm (UTC)but i am absolutely no expert
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Date: 2006-06-26 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-26 07:14 pm (UTC)How I invented emo...
Date: 2006-07-13 08:29 am (UTC)Re: How I invented emo...
Date: 2006-07-13 12:54 pm (UTC)Re: How I invented emo...
Date: 2006-07-13 01:07 pm (UTC)