Originally Posted by Angreal
I'd like to clear up a couple things too though. While I'm not really emo myself, [I have the glasses, but I've had them for years. I wear band shirts. I listen to a limited to selection of emo music. That's where my traits shared with emo end, however.] many of my friends are. The clear majority of them, in fact, do not cut. That's merely a misconception that starts to annoy me.
There is also the misconception that emo music is full of whining and angst. This is false to a certain degree. Take the band At The Drive-In (who broke up into Sparta and the Mars Volta), there was an emo band that brought an electric energy into the venue where they were playing. The lyrics contained nothing close to the horrible lyrics that you find in your typical "emo" song today. The closest thing they had to your view of an emo song was "Napoleon Solo", a song about the death of two girls from the guitarist's old band (Correct me if I'm wrong).
The music that you hear on the radio today (ex. My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy). That's not emo. That's like calling blink182 punk. Imagine categorizing blink182 in with the greats such as The Clash, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, etc. It's just as laughable to compare Fall Out Boy with Fugazi, At The Drive-In, Rites of Spring, etc.
In addition to this, emo isn't the only music that touches on the emotions. Nick Drake was a man that channeled his sadness into his folk music. Surely, Radiohead can make any feel different emotions when listenings to their music.
My point is this. Don't bash something that you view from the outside. Approach life with an open mind. Not all emo music is the same generic guitar verse-chorus-verse rinse and repeat that you hear on the radio (Cursive, for example, uses cello in their songs).
On the topic of an open mind, your point is completely moot when you say "Emo is gay!" That shows how close minded and brainwashed you are. In a world where equality is taught, what is this obsessive paranoia of homosexuality?
