This is one of the craziest stories we’ve seen in a while. Like, recalibrating the crazy-meter kind of crazy. Apparently, there is rising wave of violence happening against emo kids in Mexico. Not just teasing and the occasional crude graffiti (”emos va a casa!”), but actual mobs and standoffs and rock-throwing and beatings and police intervention and everything. A popular television personality named Kristoff has been inciting people to rise against (heh heh) emo kids, and different groups of youth - metalheads, skaters, punks, goths - are all organizing and clashing with kids who look, you know, emo. (It’s a good thing Fall Out Boy have already played Mexico).
I mean, say what you will about the emo kids, but THEY ARE JUST STRUGGLING TO FIND A PLACE IN THIS WORLD JUST LIKE YOU AND I.
Anyway, our friends at The Daily Swarm have been doing a good job aggregating a lot of the reporting going on from different daily and weekly newspapers in and around Mexico.
We’ll have more for you here, but in the meantime, check this clip, which is crazy whether you understand Spanish or not.
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A close reading of the article reveals that "metalheads, skaters, punks, goths" are the ones going after them, not jocks or supposedly mainstream groups.
The emo phenominon strikes me as a social cancer. The self obsessed lyrics of their idols who do little more than complain in high pitched voices about their problems in the way a 15 year old would elongates the whole self obsessed phase we all go through. More than that, all their songs are the same.
An album by Manson may contain songs on a variety of subject to a variety of beats. Albums by, for example, My Chemical Romance are high pitched complaints by kids who sing from a decidedly self centered and one sided viewpoint. Yes, someone will find an exception to this, but I speak about the rule.
At any rate, while I'm happy emo kids are getting a beat down as a group, I unfortunately can't condone it.
do ppl just not have a life to pick on the emo kids? i mean come on! BACK OFF OF THEM IS WHAT I SAY! BC ITS STUPID TO GANG UP ON THEM JUST BC U HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO!
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