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parents: be on the lookout for "emo"

Postby Minion » Wed May 30, 2007 5:00 pm

http://www.abc4.com/mediacenter/local.a ??? eoId=65333

can hardly believe this shit isn't a joke.
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Postby requiett » Wed May 30, 2007 5:46 pm

I'm missing 80s / 90s youth culture already. Fuck. I'd even settle for hippies. I hope more broadcasts like this pop up nationwide, so these kids can see fucking ridiculous they look.
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Postby SQ » Wed May 30, 2007 5:50 pm

Where is this "How to be emo" book?

Kids buy that shit? xD

"One particular haircut, the bullet head hairstyle.??" or whatever the fuck.

Frankly, I'm surprised they aired that one line of the emo song, which is hilarious.

http://emosong.ytmnd.com

Considering that song is making fun of Emos, and all.
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Postby requiett » Wed May 30, 2007 6:05 pm

SQ wrote:Where is this "How to be emo" book?

link

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Postby JudgeHolden » Wed May 30, 2007 6:15 pm

Underground culture! LMAO!





Poor Utah ??? lmao ????
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Postby SQ » Wed May 30, 2007 6:41 pm

requiett wrote:
SQ wrote:Where is this "How to be emo" book?

amazon link here

LOL
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Postby Arigatomina » Wed May 30, 2007 7:09 pm

I like how the parents used as an example called their kids up on cell phones at the drop of a hat. When I was a kid emo meant goth meant black fingernail polish and greasy hair. And if our parents wanted to ask us a question, they had to enter the room we were in. :roll:

Hard to believe that's not a joke broadcast. The kid running away was corny as hell. Oh, we just humiliated him on national television and now he's run away - let's give his full name so even strangers know who he is and he'll never come home. Ever hear of camera blur?
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Postby Orwell » Wed May 30, 2007 7:23 pm

Pay attention to your kids now, instead of later.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Wed May 30, 2007 7:49 pm

gotta remember its utah.?? they shield themselves from evils in that state.??

including caffine O:
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Postby jubjub2 » Wed May 30, 2007 8:12 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:gotta remember its utah.?? they shield themselves from evils in that state.??

including caffine O:


*sips Mtn. Dew*

Not quite the caffeine.?? ;)
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Postby Athena » Thu May 31, 2007 12:16 am

Bullshit.

Pure unmitigated bullshit.

Someone dropped the ball on this "investigation." Emo is not underground, it is not hidden. And Mr. Cowen's statement that emo "comes from the internet and has made its way into music and fashion" is ass backwards. I thought everyone under the age of 40 new that emo comes from a type of punk music, and that the rest of the culture has developed around it.

How the fuck can people like this get journalism jobs when I can't. I wrote better stories in high school than these people.

I have half a mind to send them a nasty letter demanding a retraction.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Thu May 31, 2007 6:17 am

i actually remember when i was a kid "Emo" looked nothing like what it looks like today.??

it mostly people who dressed in late 70's earley 80's thick brown glasses, sweater-vests and what I call "grandpa pants"??? most of these people were obssesed with alot of "New Wave" music.??
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Postby SQ » Thu May 31, 2007 7:07 am

Kionon wrote:
How the fuck can people like this get journalism jobs when I can't. I wrote better stories in high school than these people.

I have half a mind to send them a nasty letter demanding a retraction.
because research journalism costs more than it gets back?
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Postby jubjub2 » Thu May 31, 2007 8:04 am

JaddziaDax wrote:i actually remember when i was a kid "Emo" looked nothing like what it looks like today.??

it mostly people who dressed in late 70's earley 80's thick brown glasses, sweater-vests and what I call "grandpa pants"??? most of these people were obssesed with alot of "New Wave" music.??


80's punk movement = today's emo, at least style-wise including the self-mutilation and piercings. The main difference is that the punk movement focused more on retaliation and push against the norm and authority, versus the depression and self-absorption of Emo which was present in other followings, i.e.: the Smiths, the Cure, Depeche Mode, etc. (Many of the 80's bands that I love.)

Looking back to my parent's generation (pre-hippie), there was the same thing with the 'rockers' dressed in leathers with thick grease in the hair and thicker attitudes.

There's always going to be the cycle of teens and young adults trying to express themselves in ways that will shock and alarm their parents and society as a whole. (20's flappers and page boy haircuts, 40's women's pantsuits, yadda yadda.??)

I'm betting those Greek and Roman kids really gave their parents FITS when the toga hemline got raised.

No news here. Move along.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Thu May 31, 2007 8:56 am

pretty much what i was saying is that the "deffinition of emo" (style wise at the least) has changed since the 90s.??

emo back then was not the pop-punk-hot topic consumer whores that they are now.??

they didnt have "chains" all over their pants everywhere they didnt wear eyeliner, and they sure as hell didnt have "the emo haircuts" infact they pretty much looked like your "classic dork" (or perhaps Doug Funny would be a good comparison) they looked like they jumped off the set of Happy Days
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