Reasons why emo is mainstream.

ok, hold the phones, stop the presses and get out a pen and pad...

There's an anti-emo government movement?!

I'm sorry, but seriously? You think emo is even the top 100 things that the government identifies as bad for the country? If I was in the hot seat I'd be grateful for it. Emo kids are the last thing I'd be looking at when it comes to being anti-anything.

Apologies, there, it just caught me off guard that the great emo conspiracy would be up there with Aleister Crowley, Bob and UFOs.

As for the hardcore emos, they just sound like every other teenage isolationist clique. Even jocks confess their emotions, albeit usually when tanked.

dude what IS the deal with this whole emo thing. i mean i understand that people have pain but it gets kinda annoying......

society cant handle the whole emo-factor, and society is a HUGE influence on the gov. so, there's ur answer. very few pplz can handle true individuality, and those who can are often condemned for it. and when did i say that it was at the top of the list, i just said that pplz and the government cant handle pplz wanting to b isolated.

and what's so bad about isolation? im bipolar and isolation helps me cope when things are tough. it's hard to sit around pplz who are happy with everything because u either have to fake it and smile or just sit there and b cynical. but there's absolutely nothing wrong with being cynical, and trust me, faking a smile in front of everyone hurts much worse than crying for hours on end alone in your room with nothing but ur stereo for company.

My point is that regardless of clique all kids need time alone, as you stated for me. I didn't say it was bad. It's a statement on teenage life.

Society not only copes with emo but invented and now promotes it, hence the mainstream tag. It's not like emo is teenage prostitution or an underground slave racket.

There is nothing about emo that isn't a product of a suit in an office somewhere or a designer in a studio. Where do you think the music*, t-shirts, jeans, posters, sweat bands, cutesy calenders, hair styles and music came from?

*Name me your top five favourite songs and I'll prove it.[edit: this is your chance to add your local emo band and try and bamboozle me.]

bret
you know i generally agree with you (actually i think this is the first time i havent) but just because you have friends who are emo and show knowledge about that subject doesnt make you emo. i mean i hung out with alot of different types of people through out my life but i didnt change myself to become them. i was me, they were who they were and we didnt try to change each other because we were friends and excepted eachother for who we individually were.

and to who ever said "you arent emo if you call yourself emo." um yeah lets try not! cuz guess what i am and i do tell people i am. i let people know about me, i dont hide behind the shadows.

I understand you completely, but if you're talking about hardcore emo in an intimate way, describing how it works and how they separate themselves then you must be a part of it to some extent. If you weren't you'd be conjecting.

The other reason I know she's at least a little bit emo is because she's arguing with me at every juncture and trying to show us all that emo isn't really mainsteam even though she kind of agrees it is (by attacking mainstream in the conventional teenage way).

It's classic argumentative denial.

But disregarding that I was part of a totally eclective group as a teenager myself. I was from a working class background into Soundgarden, Metallica and anything with good guitar work whilst my friends were mainly middle class kids who thought Led Zeppelin was as heavy as it got. My best mate didn't like anything I liked at all. The only thing that connected us was that we were all top tier rpg gamer geeks and we all liked intelligent stand up comedy (like Bill Bailey). We're all still good mates now 15 years later, and they recognise the excellence of Metallica, Soundgarden and The Darkness.

Ok i have an answer to the title.
Because everyone makes a huge deal about it and gives the topic tons of attention.

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Making It Cool To Be Bisexual.

What the hell does that have to do with emo? 0.o
I would say that you are totally off topic. And I do think it is alright to be bisexual or just gay or lesbian in the first place. You can't help how you feel.

The prime minister says he's the leader of the UK... is this a lie?

Yes. because everyone knows he's just george bush's lap dog.

and Rolling Stone just announced Led Zeppelin as the heaviest metal band of all time, so 0.o

and emo kids love making out with eachother (guys and girls alike) because that's what you have to do if you want to be scene. it's not real bisexuality or homosexuality, persay. it's just a trend.

glam did the same thing back in the 70s.

Rolling Stone wouldn't know heavy metal if it landed on 'em. You think Slayer (just one of a thousand heavier bands) are Led Zep lite?

Emo kids make out with other boys and girls just because it's scene? My word.