What is it? Can someone direct me to the quintessential downloadable clip?
Is it some kind of "txt" version of the power ballad? I mean are kids too lazy to type out whole words these days?
And why does it have its own overwrought I-cut-this-myself-because-I-hate-you hair style, as in:
but, all his hair combed forward, emo style, is just silly looking
I feel old.
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Aw, you're not that old.
Emo's really been around a while. It was originally coined (more or less) to describe the music of Weezer and the like in the grunge days of the early '90s. It's sort of evolved into something even I don't really understand these days.
I wouldn't call Weezer emo. Bright Eyes is emo, which stands for emotional. Weezer is too ironic to be emo.
There was a NYTimes magazine front page article on the lead singer of Bright Eyes that talks about the genre a few years ago. My daughters disdained emo, and girls who liked it.
You'r not old, you're becoming a parent. Tada. VolMom
Dashboard Confessional - quintessential emo.
Does anyone seriously call him/herself or his/her music emo anymore? I think of it as being a rather derogatory term. At least, that's how I use it.
Kathy - what I'm saying is that Weezer was one of the "original" emo bands. That's basically where the term came from 'round about 1992-93, referring to Weezer and a couple of others at the time. There are probably a few thousand music journal articles from the first half of the 1990s around that will confirm this.
No, I wouldn't necessarily call Weezer emo now, but that's where it originally came from, and the genre has evolved and changed into something not quite the same as it was 15-ish years ago, yes.
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