Emo blown out of proportions?

[Vannar]

With the uprising of the music since the start of it in 1987, I’ve seen basically a cult rising in the last couple of years. In the last year I’ve seen news channels doing stories on the emo scene like it was some crazed, wrist cutting cult or something. its just a genre of music, not a type of person! My question is that has emo blow way out of proportion?

heres some news channels who have done stories on the emo scene

http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=2B6F6F4D7DA325A5CAA4AFB967A278EE?contentId=3096234&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6ySOHoDfk&eurl=http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=216336  

[The Dadalorian]

rellik i think we found a good one  

[Vannar]

sorry if i sound like i'm bashing emo, i'm not really. I think its an amazing genre of music. it helped me through alot of the crap u get in high school these days so i'm grateful but its just the music has turned into some crazy cult thing that its gotten way out of hand. soon we'll have senators trying to ban music the same way thier trying to ban video games. ninja  

[The Dadalorian]

metal is the only way to go..but you're the only one here who appreciates "emo" but knows how bad it is  

[Vannar]

haha emo is the usual tradition these days as a passage through high school, my musical taste have expanded into stuff thats alot better these days. post-hardcore, hardcore, jazz, bebop and blues to name a few.  

[Vannar]

and chaos u are my new friend ninja haha  

[The Dadalorian]

rellik is better, he has more wit than me XD  

[Vannar]

i have a good feeling about this guild, but anyway...anyone else got any opinions on this subject?  

[[Ashes][is][Ashes]]

OMG!
IT'S AN ANOMOLY!
You, my friend, are amazing.  

[hitmeibleed]

lol..just wait til rellik sees this..  

[XXX Zombie Porn]

Why? So he can have his 'Im-so-metal-I-s**t-robots-and-guitars'?
neutral  

[drkmtn]

There's another one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs7Vhg_0Vdc  

[Rellik San]

The fox one made me laugh for several reasons (one of them being a 10 year old could've edited it on Windows Movie Maker) but yeah, heavy metal and emo were always destined to be at odds. Its like two sides of the same of the same coin... pure rage vs. pure angst. Though I can't believe the emo attack thing, ok, I'd beat up the emo kids in college, but it was as friends, you know toy fighting and what not.

But yeah, to be honest emo's bring it on themselves. As for the senators trying to ban Videogames... well thanks to Take Two Jack Thompson can no longer involve himself in file class action against a game developer. As for banning emo, it'll just drive it underground, you can't ban music, but you can sure as hell try. I mean look what happened for the queen's silver jubilee, the sex pistols god save the queen was banned from being number 1 that day. So they got a boat and had a party down the thames.

And will people stop being all "Wait til Rellik sees this..." I'm not that bloody cynical.... ok what the hell I am but you spoil the surprise. Anywho the moral of the story, the scene kids deserve what they get, I'm so metal I s**t guitars and robots and emo sucks...

I take it thats the general gist of what you were all waiting for?
Well, I would say something witty in this post, but I won't because I can't think of anything... yet. razz  

[Vannar]

and i love how every time they do a news story they have like 6th graders that they interview. its sad and i wish the music would go back underground, it was alot better in the basement era.
i also like to compare "emo" kids and emo music to psychedelic music of the 60's and the hippies. thiers always the extremist who ruin a good thing. damn hippies.... ninja  

[Rellik San]

Vannar

and i love how every time they do a news story they have like 6th graders that they interview. its sad and i wish the music would go back underground, it was alot better in the basement era.
i also like to compare "emo" kids and emo music to psychedelic music of the 60's and the hippies. thiers always the extremist who ruin a good thing. damn hippies.... ninja

Don't blame the hippies, blame Nirvana and any other band that has been claimed to be the 'voice of disaffected teens', just so you know I hate Nirvana with a passion they killed grunge. D: