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Occasionally Amusing, Occasionally Uncomfortable, Always Bizarre
Current mood:
overstimulated
As a grown adult who had no fondness for emo music or the subculture when it was actually relevant and has no fondness for it now, this is a rather bizarre website to have a presence on. I found, and still find, people — female and male— who conformed to the subculture's fashion to be rather attractive, but that was about it. I'd rather listen to nu metal than emo, because even though I hate nu metal more and consider it to be the worst thing ever to happen to rock, it at least has an inherent trainwreck element whereupon its trashy wrechedness is achieved in unexpected ways. Every emo song sucks in exactly the same way, because they're all the same song.
I used to joke in the aughts about how there was absolutely nothing about the then-contemporary culture and subcultures that people could probably have nostalgia for in the future — my favorite thought experiment was the speculation over whether or not people would become nostalgic for the 80s nostalgia that was so ubiquitous during the aughts. I was ended up being half-right in that respect; instead 80s nostalgia itself becoming nostalgic, 80s nostalgia simply never went away in pop culture. I can forgive members of my generation for listening to emo, because it was right in front of them so they may as well have passively consumed it, but if you're not of age during the moment of a subculture's relevance, then you have to actively seek out the media in order consume it. People after the 60s continue actively seek out The Beatles and it's understandable because the music is so good that it should be sought out, ditto for people after the 80s Metallica or any other example celebrating the victors of the test of time. I'm sorry, but the likes of My Chemical Romance cannot have stood the test of time, because they never should have stood the test of their own moment.
Nevertheless, here I am on a website surrounded by people who have actively sought out this subculture that was never good to begin with, and enjoyed its foundational texts so much that they decided to don the uniforms, appropriate the lingo, and rebuild the meeting place. Now, I'm not going to say you can't enjoy this sh*t — okay, I kind of am — and I believe that if someone is going to be an emo after the year 2009 ended, then they are entitled Zionist birthright to congregate on a MySpace replica on the same grounds that a metalhead born after the 80s is entitled to wear a battle jacket, but I will never not be weirded out by these damned kids, and the the absurdity of their existence on this shared platform would be a lot easier laugh off instead of wincing in discomfort if they did not constitute the vast, vast majority of this site's populace.
No offense to anyone to whom this description applies. Now, get the f*** off my lawn.
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