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stork daddy
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hmm?
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unhinged
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somebody who wears thick-framed glasses
has a retro hair cut
wears white t-shirts and dark jeans
with chuck taylors
greases their hair
uses saftey pins for an accessory
uses emotional pain as an accessory
the evolution of punk
sometimes people just try too hard
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ilovepatsajak
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they're all sweet at the beginning and then they leave for no reason
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stork daddy
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oh it's much clearer now....you're all a bunch of miscreants...hellbent on destroying yourself and others. Kamikazes with a vague sense of surviving in some movement that is beyond you. Well fine...so be it. Teach me how to be an emokid and why are they called emokids?
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unhinged
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buy the above mentioned clothes
go to the music store and look in the 'emo' section and inundate yourself with sad pseudopunk music
have a bunch of girls fall in love with you because you are so damn cute
and you will be well on your way
(what a horrible stereotype i am creating. anyone have a free mountain retreat they want to let me live in til further notice?)
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daxle
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bobby
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stork daddy
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i do like girls falling in love with me....and sometimes i like sad punk music. What's sad punk music anyways? Does neil diamond count? No? What about that new song that's like...have i waited too long...blah blah blah...is that one good? I'm so confused. I just want to be emokiddy and in love.
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unhinged
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watch who you fall in love with
it just might kill you
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Tildan
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Fuckin' A
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Photophobe
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I don't think we have emo in Australia. Or if we do I don't recognise it...
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silentbob
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i'm sure you do, photie phobe! emo exists in every sector, nook, and cranny in this great mother earth of ours!
actually, i saw a band called like...
Ides of space or something like that. they were from australia. they were pretty indie/emo sounding action jackson ducane.
Anyway.
You shouldn't want to be an emokid. you should want to be yourself.
I consider myself very drawn to the whole Emo screaming self-inflated self-loathing, the pretty sad mopey rainy droopy sound. but i really don't dress like an emokid. i wear tshirts and jeans and have exclusively since like sixth grade. also throw in a blackhoodiesweatshirt since like sophomore year. i had a pair of Converse All Stars when i was little, and then all the punks and emo kids started wearing them too as i started getting into that more, and i thought oh thats cool, but then felt trendy for wanting some again, even though i had always wanted to get a pair again. as an act of anti-trendiness i didn't get a pair. also as an expression of the fact that i don't have money and chuck taylors cost a lot. but recently i have had money and needed shoes and decided ya know what? i don't care if everyone else is wearing them too, because i would buy them whether or not they were wearing them.
you shouldn't let trends affect you either way, good or bad. if it influences you and all that stuff, more power to ya.
another stereotypical thing emo kids do is like... draw stars and broken hearts on everything. and talk about emo bands all the time. i'm guilty of that.
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Once upon a time it was a dark summer night in a Kaybee Toystore. I, your narrator, was at the thriving commercial center in my thriving place of residence, looking for a birthday present (actually, someone else was probably looking for a birthday present; i never seem to be endowed with money)... Anyway, the lovely boy behind the cash register is wearing thick, black-framed glasses, cool. I was wearing a sweater and some pants, or something pretty normal. All of a sudden, he says to me, "What's your favorite band?" Unable to think of a coherent response, i utter "uhh..." (Very intelligent-sounding, i must say.) Before i could say anything else, he cuts in with "Do you like Weezer?" I say "yeeah..." again trying to think of a response. He then blurts, much to my surprise, "you're an emokid, aren't you!" I am again dumbfounded. He turns to this girl that was in the store at the time and says "See, i told you so." She kind of shakes her head at me, as if to say "I'm so sorry he just did that." It was interesting... i never thought i projected that image, even though i like the music and everything. I just thought that emokids hated to be labeled as such, or labeling others as such.
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Dack Rambo is my father
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Melodrama.
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and that's why most of them piss me off because everybody labels everything and tries to seek out others like them. it's human nature. "don't state the obvious...don't tell me what i am because i can be anything i want. you can't label me by how i dress." blah blah blah. whine whine whine. if you don't want people to label you by how you dress then don't wear clothes. mmmaaahhhh (i wasn't attacking you ilikefood. seems like from your story, you know that sometimes there can be misunderstanding with stuff like that)
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Effingham Fish
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The_Tyranny_of_Names strikes again.
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silentbob
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everybody does that, not just emokids. i try to seek out people who like the same bands as me because i feel that way we'll have more in common and more to talk about.
i have found people who don't like the same music as me and they just think all my ideas are stupid and weird and pathetic and other strange insulting words. and i don't understand.
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kerry
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i agree with you, bobby, completely.
and, ilikefood, i would just die if someone said that to me. i know this sounds lame but i happen to be an enormous weezer fan, you might say a fanatic, and i also really adore emo music. i do not wear the thick glasses or hair grease or use the safety pins but i believe that being an emokid is something in your head, not only defined by the way you dress, and if you chose to dress that way and also listen to emo music then so be it, you are an emokid. but i can be an emokid too even if i don't want to wear those glasses. it's in your head. or what you like to listen to. it's not all about melodrama with everyone. i'm not going to preach anymore but i just think stereotypes are somewhat wrong even though i am perfectly aware that i do it too. just thought i'd shed new light on the situation.
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silentbob loves you
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:)
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Kate
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I wonder if I'm an emokid. Tracee, who is a self defined and Dan Heaton-defined emokid, told me that emo has its own checklist-- Rivers Cuomo glasses, sweaters, the pins, patches, etc. I'm a girl with short hair, which has never been dyed, does that score me points? I wear oversized men's khaki cargo pants and almost thrift store shirts. I don't have a set group of friends though; I have a part of me in the track/cross country/band/debate/punk/ and in my group of not popular friends. I listen to emo music though, I'm a new convert. I'm proud to wear the label.
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silentbob
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but if you don't get that label you should still be proud because you are a human being and you're lovable.
don't strive to be anything but yourself. i hope no one is taking this emo talk seriously.
its as proposterous as defining punk and making it a fashion without feeling, or feeling that is fake.
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ilikefood
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exactly. (:
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ilikefood
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I don't classify myself. I switch genres left and right. I just... am.
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kerry
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you are YOU
whoever you are
and that is why we love you!
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uraguay
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if you didn't wear clothes you'd be labeled nudist or pervert depending on the situation
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Ariadani
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everyone sortof eventually falls into their own stereotype. or rather, they tend to unless they make a concious effort not to. which is why steriotypes exist in the first place. people just dont try. people dont really have time to do otherwise, i guess. or they dont care, or dont realize that theyre fulfilling the stereotypes that people make...its funny. think about it. what steriotype are you not realizing that you are in?
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silentbob
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i think some people think i dress like a skater. i don't skate, and i don't consciously dress that way to give off the appearence of such. i grab clothes that attract me.
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Casey
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They are classified by what music they listen to. But I don't think there is as big of a collective as compared to punk and metal followers. Rolling Stone magazine classifies Dashboard as "Indie" and I'm not very fond of that word or good music being related to it.
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phil
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emokids are people who don't like emokids, or people who know alot about emokids.
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kerry
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i hope people don't stereotype me......
though i'm sure they do. but i don't know what i'd fit into, probably something that has slipped my mind.
to me, i seem like your regular old white girl, no weird kinks or irregular qualities... i don't have any diseases, i live in a middle-class neighborhood, no gay parents, i myself am straight, i don't wear glasses or have braces or have excessive acne. no Pizzaface, Railroad Tracks, Four-eyes...
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Daria
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I never really cared to know.
Now, I think I would've been better off if I hadn't looked at thisa page.
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bar of soap
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the first rule of being one is that you're not supposed to talk about it
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silentbob
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indie means independent. there should be no negative connotations.
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bethany
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ok
so from the above discription i look like this emokid you speak of, and i do fall for guys who look like me and they break my heart
but i think it's coz my mom always did my hair in pin curls so when it was short i looked like betty boop and when it grew out i looked like garbo
but then this band you speak of, dashboard, i really dont like and i have tried but the lyrics are better and i cant STAND when he screams
but i like other little to less known bands, singer/songwriters with free spirits and who dig way too deep into things and what the rest of the world calls indie, which positively connotes the word independent, uhhuh.
tttthhththhtthat's all folks
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my name is jazz and im an emokid. i cry alot. it sucks. i also think im a hopeless romantic. guess im delusional too.
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kerry
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the real emokids are the ones who don't know it... take bethany for example.
it was bethany right? can't quite remember now.
well anyways, u get my point.
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silentbob
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so the other ones are the ones that think they are are just faking it?
that doesn't really make sense. because emo isn't like a political statement, or an attitude, its just like...mostly emotion. its like admitting that its ok to kind of feel depressed or lackadasical about life, relationships, society, whatever. The fact that a lot of bizarre fashion CAN go with it, does not necessarily limit or hinder what its really about. its just there.
a lot of fashion is a phase, usually by younger people in their midteens. it is stupid to get frustrated over people you think are faking it, because thats their age, it is a psychological development process, and if they are still doing it around age 30, trying on different personalities and fashions and betraying their old convictions and opinions, then THAT is a problem. not at age fifteen.
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silentbob
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jesus god wow. that last thing i wrote, 12 years ago, that was pretty right on.
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