Emo doesn’t really exist.

It’s been more than half an hour but my mind’s blank.

How often do people get this- writer’s block. When Daniel had asked me about reviving his almost dead blog here a couple of nights ago, I had so many ideas running in my mind. However, I was too tired to do anything then, with my exams still going on and all. Now that it’s the weekend and I managed to get myself in front of my desktop, my mind went blank.

Thoroughly blank.

It sucks.

So I decided to check out his previous comments on his “Why People Emo” blog entry. It’s funny how people get so worked up over the state of being emo.

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Really, if you were to scroll down, it got really interesting from the 15th comment onwards. Misinterpretation of messages, angst, words of venom… People claiming themselves emo…

Actually, if I wasn’t mistaken, the word was derived from the word ’emotional’ no? In search of the proper definition of ’emo’, I thence looked up the urban dictionary, with 7 different search results. :/ Meh.

Here are a few examples:

Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who don’t smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands’ signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle.

Seriously? Hahahaha. Those are probably just people with their unique fashion trend (which I think is cool btw) creating rock music… How can THAT be emo? Next.

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Like a Goth, only much less dark and much more Harry Potter.

LOL! I guess I have to agree with this a little bit. Emo is too overrated these days. Too well, let’s just put it this way, mainstream and commercial. With so many bands being labeled ’emo’ these days, we don’t even know how emo really is anymore.

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A group of white, mostly middle-class well-off kids who find imperfections in there life and create a ridiculous, depressing melodrama around each one. They often take anti-depressants, even though the majority don’t need them. They need to wake up and deal with life like everyone else instead of wallowing in their imaginary quagmire of torment.

This is uhm, kind of brutal. I wouldn’t say I’d agree or disagree with it BUT why label depressing people (no matter how much the severity is) as emo? They have problems, they need help. Give them a break and bring them to a doctor or at least talk to them please. Though, in contradiction, I kind of agree with the last sentence, still without help, they’d stuck in their own dramatised sadness, thinking they’re emo and are actually cool. :/

Okay, I think this should be it. My two cents on emoness.

Emo people, don’t shoot me please.