Score: 8
"Just a small reality check (about emo, and stuff):"
date: April 26, 2008
Sydelphus said "IMAGINE IF U R AN EMO AND EVERYBODY HATES YOU AND THINK UR A DUMBASS, THATS WHAT THAT STUPID GAME MAKES EMO FEEL THEIRSELFES!"
Then I think this small animation fullfill its purpose. Being a trend follower doesnt make one look smart, but the opposite. Thats why i give it an 8, even while the animation is too basic and simple to deserve a 4.
"Emo" was a underground music genre that sucked and disapeared between the 80s and the middle 90s without been noticed, and then the labels used the name again to create this new trend we all know. Emos hairstyle, and way of dressing is also unoriginal, as it takes elements from visual-jrock and other elements from goths. "Love" (interest) in death is common to most metal followers, as is with goths, and punk-goths, but the aproach an emo takes is the same the media expresses: the attention whore, the suicide kid that has no guts to do what it takes to make a point.
Emo is a trend, but a trend without a solid ideology, as it was prefabricated by the media. Emo fad came from labels to sell something that is pretty much like happy punk, but "sad" (usually done by mediocre musicians that only care about money, and not the art) :
is a "cheesy (wanna-be) sad", not a "cacaine addict sadness", or a vagrant who realiezes he was wrong and now has nothing but life. Emo deception isnt real, as they got nothing of their own to fight for. Thats what makes them dumb, so its not bad if they can learn being an emo is just wrong. Theres no point in feeling bad for them, if they cant understand their mistake, after it has been explained a thousand times.
Goths, in the other hand have identity: "goth" came from the people, so even if im not a goth, i respect them. I used to be a "metaller", but i also liked to listen a few rap songs, a bit of country, and also electronica, and many other genres, even pop rock, and powerpop, and with time i just realized it was dumb to considered myself a pure metalhead, as its dumb to listen only one genre (even when i still listen more metal bands, than other stuff; perhaps im 70% metaller). To learn, one must listen everything, and everyone, to know what sucks and what not; what is real, and what an illusion. To judge after, and not before knowing.