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27 February 2007

"It's short for 'emotional'."

post by: interrobang at: 15:05 | 9 comments

Oh sweet fox-trotting jeebus, I hate emo kids as much as the next guy, but are people really so dim that they can't figure out that those websites are jokes?

posted by jonmc 27 February | 15:21

I don't know about you, but I think these emotional kids should be identified and killed before they hurt themselves and others.

posted by interrobang 27 February | 15:25

or worse, form bands.

(seriously, what's up with them? 'Our music is 'emo' because it's emotional." Really, now? Unlike every other genre of popular music since the dawn of time? Sheesh.)

posted by jonmc 27 February | 15:28

Ahahaha! And "it's not gothic because there's no booze, no chains...."

That was a spoof, right?

posted by Frisbee Girl 27 February | 16:25

Holy shit... ridiculous.

(seriously, what's up with them? 'Our music is 'emo' because it's emotional." Really, now? Unlike every other genre of popular music since the dawn of time? Sheesh.)

The term 'emo' was first coined to make fun of the overly flowery, poetic (and usually abstract) lyrics of later (decidedly more melodic and mellow) projects of members of prominent DC hardcore bands in eighties.

The people who (much later) took the term and ran with it, much like those websites, are jokes.

When will this word die?

posted by defenestration 27 February | 17:23

in *the* eighties.

posted by defenestration 27 February | 17:46

I LIKE EMO KIDS.

posted by seanyboy 27 February | 20:20

Please swap word emo with word punk. Stop.

You realise that half of the point of the word is to wind anyone up who is older than 20. Right?

posted by seanyboy 27 February | 20:22

Tickle Me Emo

posted by kyleg 27 February | 23:38

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