Emo culture threathens to kill our young!

[Giga Power]

I hate what these fucking kids have done to emo. Hate.

Oh yeah. Like it was cool once and it was ruined by it's fanbase.

[torgo]

I hate what these fucking kids have done to emo. Hate.

At no point was emo ever cool.

[Frogacuda]

Oh yeah. Like it was cool once and it was ruined by it's fanbase.

It wasn't really ruined by its fanbase, the fashion was imitated by a fanbase that didn't even know what emo was and it kind of got hijacked. 80s emo is nothing at all like anything bearing the name today.

[Doc Holliday]

Oh yeah. Like it was cool once and it was ruined by it's fanbase.

Just like Hyphy

[Josh]

At no point was emo ever cool.

I take it you're well versed in DC Hardcore, and know exactly what you're talking about. Right?

It wasn't really ruined by its fanbase, the fashion was imitated by a fanbase that didn't even know what emo was and it kind of got hijacked. 80s emo is nothing at all like anything bearing the name today.

Thats what I'm getting at.

[torgo]

I take it you're well versed in DC Hardcore, and know exactly what you're talking about. Right?

Not sure I see how that's relevant to my opinion. Emo has probably the worst hit to miss ratio of any musical genre. Really the only emo band I've ever heard that I have any real respect for or interest in is Cursive. I'd love to be proven wrong. From there the typical fashion of Emo (no matter how little or how much Hot Topic influences it) is retarded, and really I've less respect for emo as a movement than any other musical movement ever. I may have not been in on the ground floor of punk, goth, industrial, whatever, but all of them caught my interest and earned my respect. Emo has yet to do that. But hey, that's my opinion.

[Frogacuda]

Not sure I see how that's relevant to my opinion.

Because that's the "emo" that Josh was talking about, not the shit that came 10-20 years later that sounded completely different. The fact that you think you know what emo is without knowing about the DC hardcore punk scene in the mid-late 80s is precisely why one would hate what's been done to emo, no?

[Compass]

I doubt 95% of the bands that get lumped into "emo" ever considered themselves as such. Just another broadsweeping generalization in a long tradition of branding that lumps thousands of radically different sounding bands -- some incredible, some awful -- under one banner for easy dismissal by know-it-alls.

[Josh]

Because that's the "emo" that Josh was talking about, not the shit that came 10-20 years later that sounded completely different. The fact that you think you know what emo is without knowing about the DC hardcore punk scene in the mid-late 80s is precisely why one would hate what's been done to emo, no?

Something like that. Yeah.