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#5) What happens when two emo boys kiss. There's no such thing as a female emo. All emos are homosexual boys.
Guy 1: Check it out! Over there! Two emo girls kissing!!
Guy 2: Umm... Emo girls don't exsist, dude. Those are two little emo fag boys kissing....
Guy 1: Let's kick their asses.
*Hilarity ensues.*
Much more information on emo girls on this site, with some claiming to be emo, others clearly not fans of emo. Much of it seemed to be the stereotype I had heard but have never actually encountered. This last entry was the most interesting – no such thing as female emo.
There’s apparently a book called Nothing Feels Good, by a guy named Andy Greenwald. It discusses how emo is something sprung from punk and hardcore. He “makes the case for emo as more than a genre – it’s an essential rite of teenagehood.”
Thesis by Matthew J. Aslaksen – Middle Class Music in Suburban Nowhere Land: Emo and the Performance of Masculinity
Pg. 93 starts section on the audience. Pg. 105 – 113 has a section titled “Hatred of Women?” Author asks people about the content of many emo songs in which the all-male groups sing about rage or violence against women. Some state that it is not a poor view of women on the whole but against certain individual women who have hurt them in relationships. Fans think that bc it’s in a song does not make it outwardly violent. They believe it is an emotion that ppl identify with and is cathartic.
Many sites are saying that emo is emotional hardcore and emotional hardcore punk. It’s an umbrella term to cover a lot of styles, but also not a way to describe music so much as a style and attitude. I may need to pick a branch, though I’ve never heard of a majority of bands on this one site of “top emo records.”
Wikipedia seems to separate emo into three separate ways – First wave, second wave, and mainstream which is 2000 to present. I suppose I will mostly be looking at the latter, because it is more familiar and seems to be where there are more female fans and more female-related content rather than simply emotional content in the early waves.
Wiki’s list of emo bands includes very few females – The Anniversary, Boys Night Out used to have 2 females, Rainer Maria, Paramore,
Going back to my idea to focus on Fueled By Ramen, there list of active artists includes the Hush Sound, Paramore, and Versaemerge.
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