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10-25-2006, 05:15 AM
This is what the editor of Blunt magazine wrote about the term "Emo" :-
"Emo, like "nu-metal" before it, is not only a dirty word, it's a dirty word with a used-by-date. Not only has it shifted so far from its original meaning, but the media's use and abuse of the word has virtually erased it's meaning completely.
The first time I ever heard a person referred to as "an emo", I almost had a cardiac arrest. Somehow "emo" had gone from being a musical style branching off from the US hardcore scene in the mid-80's to being a word used to define a person's character, like a "homie" or a "westie" or a "goth'' or a "punk" (which was ironically a character type before it was a musical style) - just a new name to package someone up with, a new slot to help seperate ourselves from one another.
Well I say it's bullshit. No-one is "an emo"; people are just people, and people are more complicated than any one word you'd like to apply to them. From my experiance, judging a person by how they dress or what music they listen to is selling a person way short.
If you agree with this.. tell others out there that the "Emo" tag (along with all other labels and stereotypes) is a load of crap.
hmm...whatcha think?
"Emo, like "nu-metal" before it, is not only a dirty word, it's a dirty word with a used-by-date. Not only has it shifted so far from its original meaning, but the media's use and abuse of the word has virtually erased it's meaning completely.
The first time I ever heard a person referred to as "an emo", I almost had a cardiac arrest. Somehow "emo" had gone from being a musical style branching off from the US hardcore scene in the mid-80's to being a word used to define a person's character, like a "homie" or a "westie" or a "goth'' or a "punk" (which was ironically a character type before it was a musical style) - just a new name to package someone up with, a new slot to help seperate ourselves from one another.
Well I say it's bullshit. No-one is "an emo"; people are just people, and people are more complicated than any one word you'd like to apply to them. From my experiance, judging a person by how they dress or what music they listen to is selling a person way short.
If you agree with this.. tell others out there that the "Emo" tag (along with all other labels and stereotypes) is a load of crap.
hmm...whatcha think?