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Page 2 Welcome to our EMO page. Soon we will have an official forum here. But, for now you can send me your clever input and I may or may not post it. I have decided to edit the content to the point of limiting of excluding emails I recieve that are redundant, or boring, or that I just don't like. So, if you want your email posted here, make it good. You May also see some of my personal imput throughout the emails, found in [brackets]. So if you have something clever or funny or intriguing to say about the meaning of EMO, that hasn't already been said, send it to: emo@greensquirrelshirts.com and we will post it. Below are some of the emails we have received so far. EMAIL TWENTY ONE I don't know how I got sucked in to reading all these fifteen-year-olds' definition's, nor do I truly care how wrong they might be. But for the record, the term "emo" was first used to describe the softer sounding punk bands, (more "emotional" vocals) in the early eighties, mainly coming out of the D.C. scene. i.e. Blackflag is to punk as Fugazi is to emo. -Dirt speaks the truth- EMAIL TWENTY TWO Emotional. Duh. EMAIL TWENTY THREE so i just finished reading everything here about what EMO is, but what people haven't realized is.. it doesn't matter, who cares ? if you give yourself a lable, you're already a poser anyway, you are just like everyone else. i say- listen to the music you like, do the things you normally would do without a cult, & don't generalize and stereotype. make your own style, music whateverthehell. EMAIL TWENTY FOUR here is an instructional video on what emo is and how to be it.... www.somethingdirectory.com/main_emo.htm ~Faaaace EMAIL TWENTY FIVE Hello! Emo is short for emoticons, you know those stupid smiley thingys that are all over the whole wide world web. And we all know that emoticons are secret allies with the decepticons, and have sworn an oath to destroy all transformers and go-bots. And then some dude was watching sesame street and sang a sad song about how sad snuffeluffugus always looks. Well they were counting with the count, and started to bob their head to the beat, and sing along to the song, and the next thing you know sesame street is over and Bravestar is on (don't act like you don't know who bravestar is.) I know who you are, you spend all day at your computer watching television with the radio on, just so can zone out the world for real. And then your mother tells you it's time to turn it off and go outside. And then you tell your mom that she's not your boss as you storm outside into the bright lights of nature. And it makes you sick the way nature imitates art, and so you spray paint "the grim reaper is my keeper" on the cardboard wall of your fort, and sit inside thinking of ways to conquer the world one personality at a time. And by now you are wondering what is up with the angrey people in the world, it is like the world is coming unglued at the seams, and people are crying, and people are dying, and you don't know what it all means. So eventually you will end up in front of your tv/computer/radio, trying to find out what the real world is all about, but you have to wait because there is a star wars movie coming out, and you need to by a stormtrooper outfit, but you just spent your last buck at that star trek convention on the moon. By the way your girlfriend just called and she says it is still hard. So you know it is time for a change of pace, and... [and what? I don't think we got everything, but what we did get, we like] EMAIL TWENTY SIX Okay, some people have gotten this confused with emu (the bird) or eno spelled wrong. I am sorry but you are both wrong. Emo has been a musical evolution. People think you can "dress" emo. No, it is NOT a style. It may reflect your personality but, otherwise no not a style so many confuse that!! Emo is short for emotional. The kids with emotional feelings don't know what to do with their life (something like this) and rely on their music with hard core, indie type feeling and powerful lyrics. Taking Back Sunday is a band they rely on. I have much emo music i rely on. It's not easy, and don't assume what we are, cause in the end you end up the poser but "trying" to be "emo". Yea, now it's understood. ~hidden.for.time. [wow, this is powerful, I think we have a true EMOer right here] EMAIL TWENTY SEVEN Emo is just a modern "style craze" that is ever so popular and apparent. Like the hippies -or- beatniks during the Woodstock era, the nu wavers and punk rockers of the 80's, the grunge kids during Nirvana, or the more recent indie and hxc kids. Now, we have emo kids. It's another small revolution in life's big circle of trends and fads. It's another opportunity for companies (such as this website) to capitalize on the pop culture (or underground pop culture). I mean... nowadays, it's pop to be "anti-pop". Emo is just forcing all the "metal kids" to be more metal and hate emo to the fullest extreme. There are mass groups of metal kids ganging up all over the internet to wipe out "emo". Will it ever happen? Probably not, but it will in turn bring birth to a new fad... [this gives me an idea, we'll start our own fad here at GSS and we'll get people selling our shirts on ebay under the description "emo punk indie graphic squirrelly t's, but their designs won't really have anything to do with our fad or style. that would be sweet] EMAIL TWENTY EIGHT "Emo", short for "emotional", is a sub-genre of a sub-genre of a sub-genre of alternative/punk rock. Songs that take on "emo" characteristics are more than often performed in a cried-out and/or energetic matter accompanied by poetic words of sorrow and self-defeat, sayings inside the mind but never out of mouth. Tales of love lost, unrequited love and love in mourning are also common subjects of these post-teeny-bopper ballads. "Emo" can also be classified as a particular style, where one is prone to dress and express how he/she is feeling. Vintage clothing, which seems to be worn often by "emo kids", reflects a run-down and torn view of one's inner-self. Some of the more oustandish qualities of "emo" include black hair, pale skin, tattooes, black and red/pink clothes, Chuck Taylor's, pictures taken at obscure and crooked angles, and lots of eyeliner. An emo kid's innermost anthem?: "The truth is you could slit my throat. And with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt." [applause] EMAIL TWENTY NINE Funny how you bring up the subject of the classification of Emo.. Well not to many people actually understand it or get the point most emo bands are trying to prove... and the word OBVIOUSLY evolved from the word emotional.. if you dont think so... your retarded and know nothing about music... It all kind of started when most of the hardcore punks and screemos tried something new.. including kind of a "math rock" a more complex emotional and very complicated form of music.. most of them have now become known to be whiney bitches but... the word is emotional and its used to express the shit these people go through... most of it is their life on a cd... it just so happens none of them have good lifes.. but do you make songs when your happy bout something? other than love? and can you make an emo sounding song about somehting like that? you dont usually sing that way when your happy.. haha... and so in this long email.. i present you the reason emo music is what it is.. and now-a-days it fits quite nicely with most of the teenagers because its become common to have world war III at home.. and this is the way out... music... EMAIL THIRTY yeah, i don't think emo is whinney or sissy rock, but it does have a certain element to it. i agree that it is a style and a genre of music. i'm not so sure about the girl emo though, i thought they tended to wear flat shoes (low to the ground), jackets, band shirts, and have their hair dyed and layered funky- with off-cut bangs and such. but yeah, the guys seem to be nerd-like, with black rimmed glasses, straight legged pants, and tight shirts. but then what is indie? for a while i thought that the two went hand in hand. but then isn't emo a harder sound like coheed and cambria, and indie is more like belle & sebastian? i know that indie guys wear girl pants, but that's the only difference in style. indie girls wear skirts and more girly clothes with bright colors. but the style is rather alike in both.. EMAIL THIRTY ONE emo is NOT wearing tight clothes, emo is NOT black horn rims, emo is NOT black hair... emo is NOT Dashboard Cofessional, emo is NOT Taking Back Sunday, emo is NOT The Used... i`ll give you an example of some REAL emo bands today: Transistor/Transistor A Day In Black And White City Of Caterpillar Bright Calm Blue Hot Cross oh btw... most of them look like they belong in the hardcore scene, and some of them are just normal people :-) EMAIL THIRTY TWO I think emo is something that people make way too big a deal out of... [yeah, like the time when puzzle fighter 2 was, like, my life, I'd close my eyes and see those freakin cubes everywhere] EMAIL THIRTY THREE emo is just emotional punk. its not whiny and its not pussy either. its just a toned down version of punk music. its just made by people who want to use their voice to sing instead of ruin it by screaming. its just for people who want to relax or to help them think not cut themselves and cry all the time. i dont know where the hell you get that idea but the cutting part comes with death metal. along with cutting other people. dorks dont sing emo btw so no thick framed glasses and no sisters' sweaters. its just slower and more melodic punk music and so what if its all about problems. some hardcore songs are about a problem but nobody classifies them as pussies or dorks. there isnt a damn thing wrong with emo music and there's nothing wrong with the people that listen to it. EMAIL THIRTY FOUR the same kids who were only seven years ago listening to a band consisting of five males crooning about life, love, bad spelling, and obscene amounts of hair gel (think n*sync), have not progressed to bands consisting of approximately five males that sound like they down laundry detergent on a regular basis as they scream/sing their life story, as seen on a hallmark card; while also wearing shirts similar to, if not the same, ones their fans wore while attending these n*sync concerts in the first place. a coincidence? i think not. there are some exceptions, but really, alot of emo band members possess 1/5 of musical talent, which meshed all together and pumped out crappy sound equipment so that the static hides the horrendous vocals, equals the cooperative effort of 1 decently talented musician. hey, good job! want a cookie? no really, take it before i shove it down your throat. i find it sickening that you're wearing a two year old's t-shirt. please do us all a favor and start eating. another thing. now that emo is perpetually ridiculed, you shape-shifters got wise, and a sort of hybrid trend has surfaced that some consider "indie". this claim is counterfeit, of course. indie has become emo in denial. just because you listen to death cab for cutie (saw it on the O.C. didn't you?!) and watched garden state, it does not make you a person of significant social dissent. if you're going to be emo, own it! quit raping my social label of choice! now, if you'll excuse me, i'll get back to my foreign film while i chain smoke and write beat poetry. [and excuse me while I laugh at your email and eat banana pudding] faith. p.s. (questions, comments, and caustic remarks may be submitted to my screen name: rocket ecstatic) 
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