What Do You Do When You Realize That You're Into Emo?

Baby Thief · Post by **Baby Thief** » 1/27/2004, 4:18 pm

Oh man. I don't know why, but Death Cab For Cutie is just impressing me greatly. Really, I'm not someone who enjoys stuff about love and whatnot, but their new cd is stuck in my cd player. I don't seem to like anything similar to them though... very strange.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 1/27/2004, 5:03 pm

Get a tattoo on your head that says "emo" backwards.

MrFeynman · Post by **MrFeynman** » 1/27/2004, 5:13 pm

yeah I just got hooked on Transatlanticism in the last couple weeks. so far I haven't discovered any dire consequences from listening to them so I think it's ok

Reyna · Post by **Reyna** » 1/27/2004, 6:19 pm

huh? Don't call death cab for cutie emo!

death cab for cutie 0wnz.

and yeah, i agree, transatlanticism is prolly their best album yet (well, maybe not, i really love the photo album too! and the forbidden love ep! and well, er, everything).

Joe Cooler · Post by **Joe Cooler** » 1/27/2004, 6:46 pm

Whats wrong with calling Death Cab emo? Emo isnt that negitive a term is it? I dont see anything wrong with it. I love emo

Mechanical Thought · Post by **Mechanical Thought** » 1/27/2004, 7:32 pm

I was wondering this too. He makes emo sound like a bad classification! Enjoy emo, it's a good thing. :nod:

Reyna · Post by **Reyna** » 1/27/2004, 7:33 pm

i just think emo is a really dumb thing to call music. so there.

Penguin Josh · Post by **Penguin Josh** » 1/27/2004, 7:43 pm

bright eyes and jump, little children are good emo bands

Mechanical Thought · Post by **Mechanical Thought** » 1/27/2004, 7:44 pm

Doesn't make much of a difference to me. :mrgreen:

Besides, music is termed very moronically (heh) these days, anyway.

sandsleeper · Post by **sandsleeper** » 1/27/2004, 8:03 pm

cry about it.

olpcc · Post by **olpcc** » 1/27/2004, 9:22 pm

emo gets label on everything now a day, and the fact that coperate america is trying to turn it into a fashion style is bad, almost all these bands are indie rock anyways, thats what they would be called emo wasn't ever invented

sandsleeper · Post by **sandsleeper** » 1/27/2004, 9:29 pm

i don't think that corporate america is responsible for the connection between the so-called "emo" bands and the "emo" fashion. the bands themselves are responsible for this association if only because they actually wear the things associated with "emoness."

half of the "emo" scene is fashion. vintage clothes, studded belts, chucks, tight jeans, tight t-shirts, saucony's or any kind of retro-looking sneaker. and don't forget the dyed black hair chopped into a funky hairstyle with black rimmed specs (which are pretty cool, i must admit). take this specimen, clone a few hundred times, cramp into small space and voila, you have the makings of an emo concert. a simple recipe, really. just add music.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 1/27/2004, 9:39 pm

Well...you can't add country music. That just won't work.

All music type names are stupid. Rock? How dumb is that?

sandsleeper · Post by **sandsleeper** » 1/27/2004, 9:43 pm

actually country music would work better than you'd imagine.

kids would look to each other hesitantly at first.

and then one would claim to know this band. and they're very underground so it's very cool.

and they're very experimental and like to add a country twang.

how edgy.

how "emo."

and i have no problem with "emo" music, like all genres, there's the good and the bad. i'm just critical of the major roles that fashion and appearance play in the scene. as they do in many other scenes for many other genres of music.

Reyna · Post by **Reyna** » 1/27/2004, 9:53 pm

sandsleeper wrote:i don't think that corporate america is responsible for the connection between the so-called "emo" bands and the "emo" fashion. the bands themselves are responsible for this association if only because they actually wear the things associated with "emoness."

half of the "emo" scene is fashion. vintage clothes, studded belts, chucks, tight jeans, tight t-shirts, saucony's or any kind of retro-looking sneaker. and don't forget the dyed black hair chopped into a funky hairstyle with black rimmed specs (which are pretty cool, i must admit). take this specimen, clone a few hundred times, cramp into small space and voila, you have the makings of an emo concert. a simple recipe, really. just add music.

uh, yeah. and death cab for cutie doesn't look like that at all. not even a little. "emo" is a name to call to make fun of dumb bands who do.

sandsleeper · Post by **sandsleeper** » 1/27/2004, 9:55 pm

that's good then.

i never mentioned death cab for cutie. much less called them "emo."

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 1/27/2004, 10:46 pm

I don't see emo as a taunt at all.

I like some country. I can't help it...I'm a cowgirl at heart.

Solidarity 9-6347 · Post by **Solidarity 9-6347** » 1/27/2004, 11:36 pm

to answer the original question: shock therapy

second, i forget who said it but i'm not sure where they're coming from with the subsumption of Jump Little Children under "emo". please explain

Joe Cooler · Post by **Joe Cooler** » 1/27/2004, 11:59 pm

Reyna wrote:
"uh, yeah. and death cab for cutie doesn't look like that at all. not even a little. "emo" is a name to call to make fun of dumb bands who do.

Umm yeah, does it matter that Death Cab doesnt dress "emo.?" Many bands who are labled as an emo band dont claim to be. Lets just say.. Death Cab is emo. (mabye in your mind they arent.) Would that emo label make you dislike the band? Perhaps dismiss them? Make fun of them? If you think emo is the term given to bands who dress a certain way then your mistaken. Believe it or not a lot of "emo" bands play similar styles of music and Death Cab falls into that style.

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 1/28/2004, 12:18 am

OK, this thread had to be made for me, so let me throw out a few comments.

Stephanie, any band that wasn't already huge and isn't in a clearly defined genre gets grouped into emo. That's just how it goes. I don't think Jump, Little Children or Death Cab For Cutie would be in the general emo category, but let's face it, what are they? You can't clearly define either of these bands as one thing or an another, and they do write some songs that one could see as depressing, so they're grouped into the emo category.

Now with Alkaline Trio. They don't sound like DCFC, but ALK3 is considered emo too. What does this prove? There's no actual sound to the music. It's just a buzz word people throw around and slap on music because it's hard to define. That's just how it is.

I could go all fourfa.com on your asses and say Fugazi and Rites Of Spring is what emo is, and no bands out there today really sound like them, but what the hell, right?

There's nothing we can do except quit whining (or being emo, if you will) and just listen to the music. You like it, no matter if someone calls it alternative, punk, indie, or emo. In other words, get the fuck over the word emo, it means nothing.

Also Stephanie, shut up. Wow, people like music that you label as emo because it doesn't try to be all artistic and overproduced like Radiohead and Sigur Ros (and before you say anything, I like both of those bands, so don't bother preaching to the choir in a rebuttal). Get over yourself. People are going to like music that you don't. And better yet, people are going to like music you like, then label it emo because it just has that particular feel to it. That's just how it is. It's best to just listen to music and like it or not, because you're one of those people that come off as you'll stop liking a band just because someone labeled it emo.

And there's nothing wrong with liking so called emo music. It's just music guys. I like Kind Of Like Spitting, Rites Of Spring, Fugazi, Alkaline Trio, Death Cab For Cutie, Weezer, and Rufus Wainwright, and even though all of them sound nothing alike, people have labeled each one of them emo at some point. I'm not going to stop liking one of them because of a label that clearly has no musical base to it, because if none of those bands sound like the other, then there's no particular genre for it. It's just a buzz word people slap on music.

The end.