Scenester kids make me want to gouge out my blackened soul with a rusty nail. I wonder when people will realize that the "scene" has become homogeneous. It's full of 14-year-old girls with uneven bangs, black and white striped shirts, and tattered low-top black Chuck Taylors, who swoon over homosexual kissing and pathetic whiny lyrics and overuse the symbols. Their favorite quote is, invariably, "The truth is you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt" because it like, so totally describes their relationship with that one HAWT sophomore who totally ripped their hearts out when they were like, SO in love with him. Their favorite type of music is, of course, "emo, screamo, and hardcore," three terms which, in their minds, invariably include the bands Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, and Hawthorne Heights. Their AIM screennames often include "x"s, the words "electrikk," "disaster," or some play on their favorite song from their favorite band, you know, the one they saw on MTV like a couple times, but shouldn't be on MTV because they're like, way too emo for that. They take hundreds of black and white pictures with way too much contrast of themselves looking plaintively down at the ground, pointing a gun made of their fingers at their heads, or kissing the camera while displaying their expert application of lip gloss around their labret piercing and the thick dark eyeliner that circles their eyes. They embrace the "dork" that is inside their polished, fashionable exteriors by writing in their LiveJournals or Xangas about how they and their friends had an 'N Sync sing-a-long at one of their sleepovers because, remember, 'N Sync is soooo not popular anymore and they like, sooo wouldn't follow any of the fads of today, so they embrace the fads of yesterday. They adore "retro fashion," meaning anything from the 80's, because they totally used to wear neon colors and big beaded bracelets, even though they were born in, at the earliest, 1988 and remember jack shit about the fashion and culture of the 80's. It's full of "emo boys" who often are difficult to differentiate from "emo girls," who have meaningless tattoos even though they're 15, smoke a lot of cigarettes, drink a lot of hard liquor, and are in some shitty band that plays a couple of gigs in someone's basement because they're "too cool to go mainstream" when really, they just suck. They weigh roughly 90 pounds, wear girls' jeans that hug their asses in just the right places, belts buckled somewhere around the side of their right leg, tight striped 80's style polo shirts or band t-shirts, and skater shoes, even though they don't skate because that's soooo lame. They write awful poetry about the dark abyss of their souls and how the gun is pointed at their heads, the trigger poised to blast away the bloody memories of a failed romance. They cried when Blink-182 broke up, and they have a secret obsession with Avril Lavigne because, like, she really IS kinda hot even though her music totally sucks. They spend more time at the mirror than their female counterparts do, making sure that the long black shock of hair at the front of their heads lies covering one eye just so, that their lip piercing is perfectly placed so that it looks hot when they kiss other boys, that their pants are the right degree of tightness so as not to exude gayness. Emo boys and girls often use the suffix "Xcore" to describe themselves, using a number of adjectives or nouns to accomplish this task. This is a play off hardcore music, or "hXc." Some of these descriptive words include "fashionXcore," "retroXcore," or even "yournamehereXcore." This way of speaking is retarded or nonsensical to everyone else except those "in the scene", but it totally doesn't matter because they're too nonconformistXcore for anyone to truly understand their "scene." They couldn't name a Sunny Day Real Estate or Rites of Spring song if it came up and bit them on their Gap Jeans-clad asses, and they claim to like the Smiths because Jesse Lacey of Brand New said they were cool. Sure, they listen to some new "hardcore" bands, but they're all pretty much the same five bands: Emo girls just want to kiss emo boys, emo boys just want to kiss other emo boys, and they all want to wear tight pants and take lots of pictures of themselves. End of story. Because honestly? It's electrikk!
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And I see that labelling has become cool in the 21st century.
I remember when no one cared what 'label' people had. Now, in this day in age, people will automatically stick a label on you as if you are a can of soup.
But, honestly, why do these things matter to you? They aren't trying to 'gouge your blackened soul with a rusty nail' for you. This is almost exactly like what happened in Martin Luther King Jr.'s time. But then it was judging people by their skin color, now it is what they look like in general (or, in your case, how they spell, what they like, AND what they look like).
If you insist on labelling, please note that 'emo' and 'scene' are completely different labels. 'Emo' people normally hate themselves and what they look like, therefore, they cut themselves. 'Scene' people (I have been called one because of what I say and how I dress) dress similar to 'emos', but they normally do not hate themselves. They love bands of the genre emo, and they love the style.
If this little comment was not thorough enough for you, please contact me as soon as you wish.
Thank you,
Kaitlyn
woah
I still don't have anything to say on this topic. I do need to praise this comment. I looked at your myspace profile, and if you are indeed 14 years old, that is the most articulate thing I've seen a 14 year old write in a long, long time.
wtf
Reading that rant was like looking into my kid sister's diary. When I was growing up, my peers wanted to dress like it was the freaking 70s. Labels were things like preps, rockers, skaters, and whiggers. Grunge music had sort of taken over the "scene". I agree with the comment made about "being 14 sucks and they are just trying to find themselves". Now that I'm older it IS fun to step back and laugh at them. My older cousins probably did the same thing with me in the early 90s.
i especially love the new
i especially love the new trend of categorizing people by their tastes in music/fashion. as if there's nothing else to a person than that. no, no.. let's take a look at their homemade hairstyle, their tight faded jeans and short black hair, their converse shoes and facial piercings, and their collection of bright eyes/coheed and cambria/death cab for cutie cd's.. and let's call them "emo kids" and preach to the masses about how lame and whiny they all are.
god, i can't wait for the next trend to pop up, so we can hear someone make the first complaint about it, and then watch five million people follow in their bitter, elitist footsteps.
all i know is, the next person to say the word 'scene' to me will be stabbed to death. quickly.. but surely not painlessly.
well said
dear simplycomplex,
i guess i just don't get the point of 'criticizing' (which by the way is judging them) 14 year old kids. in case you don't remember, being 14 sucks ass. these kids are coping with that and trying to find their identity the best way they know how. if they listen to crappy music and dye their hair black instead of going out and doing something truly harmful to themselves or others, then i say, more power to the 'scene'.
people don't like being labeled, but when you are 14 and just trying to not get beat up by some kid at school, you'll take the best label you can get. kids are trying to find a niche to survive in until they feel comfortable with themselves. if you are going to criticize 'scenester' kids, then the criticism should be spread equally to any person who has ever tried to fit in with any group. hell, you take a shower sometimes, what kind of fucking poser are you?! ;-)
i am just saying, there are a lot worse things in the world than bad hair and bad musical taste. give the kids some time, they'll get it together one day.
Point taken.
Well said. I respect an intelligent, well thought answer. Especially one with a good point. Thanks.
There's a "rants" section for a reason..
You know, I wasn't judging, or labeling people in this rant. I was simply criticizing idiotic little kids that label themselves as "emo," or "xcore," just because of the fact that they listen to such music, and dress in the stereotypical "xcore" fashion. Also, this is a rants section. This is what we do. I simply spoke about something that aggrivated me, and many other people. But hey, thanks for registering.
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Personally I try to stay away from labels as much as possible, don't like them and probably never will, for myself or for others.
The only label I like to complain about is stupid people. That is the one exception to the rule.
wholehearted agreement.
they are a plauge. yet if we put them out of their misery, WE are the ones that get punished. HOW IS THAT JUSTICE?!