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A Foreign Emo Feud You Can Comfortably Laugh About

CarsmileSteve — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:20:28 EDT

@DRR: actually maura wrote it in 2001 ;)

A Foreign Emo Feud You Can Comfortably Laugh About

Tenno — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:21:41 EDT

@SuperUnison: They are the colorful Bizarro world versions of the Japanese Gan-guro... just white instead of neon orange.

Meanwhile, here I sit listening to Combichrist and the new B-52's so I guess I can't really judge them can I?

Tenno

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jetblackturd — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:17:13 EDT

Music? There's music? I just thought it was a scene about boys kissing each other..n' stuff.

This is Dennis Cooper posting btw.

jetblackturd

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amandacobra — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:07:43 EDT

i am still trying to figure what sort of establishment shakira is trying to gain access to? surely she's a-list enough to always be able to enter through the back door or after hours?

my mom thought my carabiner was a good idea and recently purchased one for herself. so a carabiner can be the calling card of an emo kid, a scene kid or the oft-forgotten third group: people who don't like to lose their keys and frequently have lots of stuff in their hands that they have to carry from their car to their house.

amandacobra

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KurticusMaximus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:58:28 EDT

Wow, Enter Shakiri sound a lot like Scaring Kids Scaring Kids. Who knew?

From that little list, it sounds like "Scene Kids" are just hipster versions of "Emo Kids." They listen to basically the same music, just prefering more obscure bands, with a few ironic out-of-genre choices thrown in for good measure, and they have an unjustifiable sense of superiority.

KurticusMaximus

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SuperUnison — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:21:21 EDT

@The Notorious T: I actually have the same carabiner I had in 1998. And you know what? I've only lost/locked my keys somewhere twice in that ten-year period. You know why? Cause they're always clipped to my ass. I need to be killed for hipster crimes if I ever become too cool for carabiners and polarfleece.

SuperUnison

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The Notorious T — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:16:32 EDT

@canhazhipster: I don't know. These "scene" kids sound more glam than anything else. Maybe they've seen Velvet Goldmine a few too many times?

@Superawesomerad: I had a carabiner on my keychain back in 1998. So did everyone else. All it did was make my keychain unbearably bulky (especially since it was an actual stainless steel climbing carabiner as opposed to the aluminum ones you get at Hot Topic). Either way, someone should tell these kids that ten years might not be enough time to recycle that unfortunate trend. I don't think it's been so long as to be ironic.

The Notorious T

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DRR — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:52:19 EDT

We're entering this weird dynamic where some tongue-in-cheek list on how to be "emo" or "hardcore" or "scene" published by some smart aleck teens in 2003-2004, ends up becoming an authentic go to guide for 13 year old Australian girls in 2008.

And let's get it straight, "scene kids" or scenesters has already been around for awhile with the young folks. The whole concept is being part of or involved in a scene and since these girls apparantly just invented this yesterday, I don't think it qualifies.

Also, Blink 182, Rancid, Offspring? since when do self identified "emos" primarily listen to mid 90's pop punk?

I'm getting way too old.

DRR

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Superawesomerad — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:40 EDT

The carabiners always crack me up. Teenagers have, like, two keys at the very most - not really enough to justify the use of a carabiner - so they always load the thing up with novelty keychains from Spencer Gifts to add bulk.

Superawesomerad

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Superawesomerad — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:22:53 EDT

So are emo frontmen all descended from a single breeding pair or something? They all sound EXACTLY ALIKE.

Superawesomerad

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StarlingSlipstream — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:35 EDT

I just died a little after reading this. God help us...

StarlingSlipstream

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madmangoliath — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:57:51 EDT

Enter Shikari isn't actually emo or scene, they're probably electro/core/metal, trace/core/tronica, or some cacophony or genres melded together. All I know is they have good riffs and a killer live show. I saw them live at Highline Ballroom and was very impressed. The energy was intense, the crowd was full of scenesters, hipsters and preps, but JESUS CHRIST, was the mosh pit crazy. I saw some scene kids get knocked the fuck out, hard. It was a great show, and I definitely recommend them as a live show...for $10, it was worth it, probably a bit more.

madmangoliath

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SuperUnison — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:34:28 EDT

This makes me really nostalgiac for the days when emo was just a term ofr pop-punk bands who didn't make poop jokes.

@Tenno: They had to figure out a way to get whiter. Hence, they will crack the equation and all be listening to indie rock two years from now.

SuperUnison

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Grrsn Dn — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:01:22 EDT

I don't care what group you're in, if you want to be in a musical subculture, you better be at least a little tough, otherwise you're askin for it. Its why goths stayed in their parents basements, they knew better.

Grrsn Dn

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canhazhipster — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:49:23 EDT

so is this the mods vs rockers of our generation?

unfortunately enter shikara is nothing like the who

canhazhipster

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Tenno — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:41:38 EDT

@thearcanemodel: The casual 'ironic' manner that scene kids and emos both hurl the word niggaz, nigger, niggar or niggz is bizarre. Mainly because the majority of them would break if some hiphop kid punched them.

Tenno

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iantenna — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:50:51 EDT

Scene kids should listen to "Conway Twitty", "Jimmy Buffet", "Harry Chapin" and "Brook Benton".

damn. i need to move to australia.

iantenna

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thearcanemodel — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:47:55 EDT

(1) god bless you for anticipating and satisfying my query as to enter shikari. such selfless investigative journalism is not seen every day. i know it couldn't have been easy.

(2) "niggz"? i really hope that's not the shorthand i suspect it may be.

(3) i am ever more grateful for my nerdy, awkward, guileless 13-year old days. if i were these girls 15 years from now, i would personally find my gap tee n' braces snapshots a hell of a lot less mortifying than the above.

(3)(a) re princess coldstare on the left: is her head detached from her body? or is she just exhibiting a creepy mastery of the "strange angles" thing? i'm thinking it could go either way.

thearcanemodel

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blobby — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:45:55 EDT

FWIW, I am fairly sure, though not positive, that I have seen that list on joke websites.

blobby

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Tenno — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:40:19 EDT

Damn, in my experience emo and scene kids are the same damn thing, scene kids just hate being called emo, and that's emo as fuck!

Tenno