Kyshera

I know I’m not the most ‘down with the kids’ guy in the world, mainly because :

1) I’m not a kid and 2) I make a conserted effort to avoid as much mainstream news & ‘culture’ as I can, but even I have become increasingly aware of a certain social & cultural ill that is Emo music.

I know I’m a late starter on this, (I normally am) but having begun extensive research into this latest trend, I have become very concerned. Mass marketed trends created by big business to get ever more of your hard earned cash from you in exchange for manufactured, image based, disposable, short term, cheaply created crap that you dont need have always been around – consider Mods, Rockers, Metalers, Hippies, Trendies, Grungers, Goths, Brit Poppers, Indie girl boys, Punks, Ravers, Socialists, Commmunists, Anarchists, Capitalists etc etc etc. Anytime someone comes up with something unique & individual, big business buys it up, creates thousands of little cheap clones & rams it down your throat until the next thing comes along. Think of the people you know now that are strutting around in skinny jeans, studded belts, their mums makeup & Gabrielles hair-do – who only a few years ago might have been posturing around like Liam Gallagher or wearing ripped up cardigans ala Kurt Cobain. The billionaire masters of this planet, love you – for you rely on them to tell you how to dress, what to listen to, what to think & how to behave (in exchange for your money of course).

However, I think the current trend is particularly disturbing, living as I do, in South Wales – ‘dynasty of the Emo’. I find it quite baffling watching macho, meat head, testosterone fuelled, tattooed rugby fans, full of welsh patriotism mincing around in pink pumps, sprayed on jeans hanging round their arse, makeup on & talking/singing in an accent that can only be described as…well, lets just say more California than Rhondda Cynon Taff! And I dont know who’s responsible for that hair-do but it looks girly, sort it out – if there was one guy walking around like it, he would just have an individual sense of identity but theres millions of you fuckers & you all look the same – might you be the ‘real’ trendies? PR companies know that most people have no identity of their own & long to just be part of a ‘gang’ & when you’re straightening your hair every morning & shouting at your mum ‘cos she ain’t ironed your jeans yet, you’re making a public confession that these companies are right about you.

I haven’t mentioned the music because the music is irrelevant – these bands could be playing a one string banjo out of time & out of tune (many of them sound like they are) but as long as they’ve got a distinct dress code & as long as ‘everyone else’ is doing it, you’ll follow suit – every successful musical trend has its own distinct dress code (think again of those Hippies & Punks), what does that tell you? Do you really care about the music or do you just want to fit in & conform? You will all prove me right in about 2 years time when you’re all still dressed the same as eachother, albeit in whatever trend is being sold to you then & when Emo is just a forgotten embarrassment.

So, who cares? Why does it matter? Firstly, I DONT care because I’m not a part of it & I enjoy observing the lengths that fickle, popularity seeking people will go to be part of a scene. But unfortunately because of people like you, the standard of culture in this country has dropped to an all time low – because you will buy into ANYTHING that you’re told to, we are now living in a ‘modern’ age where a home video camera recording other fickle, popularity seeking chumps is called a TV programme, where the charts are filled with bands that all sound the same, look the same & will all die out the same, where we form our views & opinions based on statements written by paid PR consultants & released through the mainstream media & where the single biggest ambition among people in the country is just to be famous. We are now one big skinny jean wearing, american talking, big brother watching, emo listening, news believing blob where no-one is just a ‘person’ anymore & no-one aspires to say or create anything of any individuality or long term worth.

Its your world & the poor state of it is a reflection of the poor state of the people in it – whos gonna be the first to step forward & dare to be different?

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