[skorpion317]

Emo evolved from skater punk stuff. or de-evolved, one would say. It makes one wish for the days of the true punks (Ramones, Sex Pistols, etc.), the guys who could smoke, drink, and kick your ass all at the same time.

Emo bands are nothing more than cookie-cutter versions of each other, modern-day boy bands with bad haircuts and even worse musical skills. Most of these guys can barely do the tried and true three-chord formula.

The music itself seizes on the insecurities and rampant hormonal imbalances of teenage kids. Pick any emo song - every emo kid will tell you that it somehow relates to their life, whether it actually does or not.

What really gets me is that the guys who write/play this **** still call themselves "men." Men don't cry about their problems. Men don't wear girls' clothes. We wear 12-year old stained t-shirts and jeans with holes in them from manual labor, not an $80 pair of pre-ripped jeans you bought at some designer store. We don't say a goddamned word about emotions, unless it's anger. Want to solve a problem? don't write an acoustic song about it. Punch the other guy in the face, fight like hell, then after it's all said and done, grab a beer.

while i'm on a rant, WTF is with the emo/punk/hardcore "windmill" mosh pit thing? You've all seen it - a pit forms, people bashing each other, and one retard starts flailing his arms about while spinning around like a top. usually a few kicks are thrown in for good measure. While doing this, they aim for someone on the edge of the pit, usually intentionally trying to punch/kick them.

What the ****.

that's not the way things work. in a mosh pit, you hit people with your body, not your fist/foot. and if someone goes down, you pick them back up. somewhere along the line, the emo/punk/hardcore kids lost this code of behavior and became ********. and yet, it's accepted as "normal", even "cool" in some circles.

and who said they could use the "devil horns?" last i checked, that sign was heavy metal's, not the crappy emo band's that plays at the local high school. i can understand if the hardcore guys use it, since they're harder than the punk/emo scene, but when i see a bunch of 14 year-olds doing it at a dashboard confessional concert on MTV, there's something wrong.

Eventually, emo will be replaced by something else, and we'll all have that something else to rant about. for now, i'm done.