When did I get old?!

Holy god! I realized as I took this popular online quiz what recommends music that I have no idea what the hell an "emo kid" is, despite hearing one or two acquaintances mention it. In contexts referring to my office: "All those emo guys in the CG department look alike."

I pretended to know what they were talking about at the time. But this music quiz really flummoxed me with strange agree/disagree statements like the following:

Emo kids can get jet \'n\' get capped sucka\'s!

What could that possibly mean? And what's it got to do with music? Then there are statements like:

I want music that'd make me go well off the Jodrell Bank.

What bank?! And who is Alan Whickers, as in the following:

Music is just being made to get off a bird's Alan Whickers.

This question did make me laugh, however:

Music by machines!? These machines better be tractors!

The quiz decided that I would like "Indy" music, which was a different catergory than "Indy Rock" and recommended Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian, ant the Polyphonic Spree, all bands that I'm very lukewarm about. I think the results were largely based on answers where I said that it was OK to include a variety of instruments, such as trombones, in my music.

I went on to look up what an emo kid is and found a variety of articles:

- a brief definition
- How Emo Kids dress (with pictures)
- How to dress and act like an emo kid

Apparently "Emo" comes from "Emotional Music", and emo kids are often called "scenesters". I call "scenesters" "hipsters" usually, and call the thick black-rimmed "art school glasses".

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January 28, 2005 02:15 AM, Jay said:

I feel about emo kids what Hitler must have felt about Jews, Slavs and the retarded.

January 28, 2005 01:29 PM, N. said:

Why?

January 28, 2005 10:15 PM, Jay said:

All they do is babble about bands that suck (This is not from a metal or anti-mainstream viewpont. I mean, listen to their music. Boys who can't actually sing but whine in time with music crying about how their cats ran away? Fewer chords than the Ramones? Gimme a break.), how independant they are, how they're so anti-establishment.

Then they go get jobs at Starbucks, start listening to hip-hop and get jobs as financial planners after college. I've seen this cycle countless times.

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