Are there people who self-identify as emo?
Willow ,'Get It Done'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
There's Emo Phillips.
And Captain Nemo. (If, you know, the first letter of his name tag was covered up.)
I don't know of anyone that self-identifies as emo. Probably because the label is flung around a lot as an insult.
I don't know of anyone that self-identifies as emo. Probably because the label is flung around a lot as an insult.
Yeah that's the impression I got recently when I mistakenly attempted to affix that label to a Fall Out Boy song. No "emo" kids were quoted in that icky article and I've never heard someone say, "I am emo."
I read the article and @@, as one would expect.
In most definitely non-emo, non-@@ news, I got to see Eric McFadden play last night. He stepped in on a couple songs for The Kehoe Nation, and was, predictably, awesome. It was like a master class on rock guitar.
I was talking about that article with my mom and quoted her some Fall Out Boy lyrics to try to explain why some (insane) people might think certain music promoted suicide.
The ribbon on my wrist says 'do not open before Christmas'
Mom said "what's so bad about that?"
I said, "he's singing about opening his wrist."
"ohhhhhhh" She replied, "I thought he was giving himself away as a present."
I wuv my mom.
Baltimore-centric post on WFMU's blog.
Baltimore-centric post on WFMU's blog.
Thanks, Tom! Baltimore is very much the Thing right now I guess.