Emos sucks, pure and simple. Perhaps you are fortunate enough to have never encoutnered somebody who claims to be emo, but in all likelihood, you have not been so lucky. What exactly is an emo? You will recognize them by their trendy hot topic clothing, the depressed look on their face, and their nihilistic ideologies.
Emo is short for emotional. Supposedly, people who are in touch with their feelings and can sing about being sad and alone are emo. Somehow they think this makes them cool. Really, it's just pathetic. If you think your life is so hard, maybe you should check out the ghettos of LA or better yet, go to the Sudan where an entire race is being systematically stamped from existence and then tell me about how tough your worthless life is.
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Most emos like to pretend they're deep and that they know something that the rest of us don't know. Excuse me, but I think we all know life sucks and then you die. The point the rest of us try to make, however, is that life is only as bad as you make it, so if you sit around like a jackass complaining about how sad your life is, it's only going to feel worse. You don't know anything special, you're just too much of a pussy to improve your situation. Good for you, you waste of space.
Anybody can be emo. All you have to do is dress in black (apparently, a "sad" color) and write bad poetry. I can crap out better poems than these people. To prove this point, let's look at a typical emo song.
"So quietanother wasted night,
the television steals the conversation
exhale,
another wasted breath,
again it goes unnoticed.
Please tell me you're just feeling tired
cause if it's more than that I feeel that I might break
out of touch, out of time.
Please send me anything but signals that are mixed
casue I can't read your rolling eyes
out of touch, are we out of time?
This is a song called Again I Go Unnoticed by Dashboard Confessional. Note the references to silence, to pain, to the pointlessness of existence. Now, look at a poem my friend David wrote by taking random phrases from a paper he wrote on Dante's Inferno. Note the similarities.
Unredeemed humans enduring eternal torture and painThe darkness, the weeping, the gnashing of teeth
Reminiscent of a horrific nightmare, nothing is bona fide.
Unfathomable chasms isolating punishment
Further down the spiral we go
Enter the lake of fire
Longing for the sixth circle
This shadowy place my existance has become
This emptiness in my soul filled
By the memory of what might have been.
"Ode to Emo" by David Gish
And here's one by me, just for amusement.
I stare at the walla blank page, a window to my soul
the dark surrounds, no light in me
I close my eyes and cry
I cry alone at night
I cry because you don't get me
I cry alone at night
I cry because you just hate me
Nobody understands the pain I feel
my soul in shreds, I die
standing on the precipice I scream
I fall down, lower into the bowels of my soul
I cry alone at night
I cry because you don't get me
I cry alone at night
I cry because you just hate me
When I'm all alone I cry
Because they laugh at me
When I'm not alone I cry
because of what they do to me
I cry alone at night
I cry because you don't get me
I cry alone at night
I cry because you just hate me
I cry because I hold me down
I cry alone... I cry alone...
"I Cry Alone" by Gwen
As you can see, the similarities are striking. All three leave a sense of hopelessness. It's especially striking if you examine the last lines of each. Dashboard says: "Out of touch, are we out of time?" and David says: "This emptines in my soul filled by the memory of what might of been." and mine says "I cry because I hold my down... I cry alone." The regret, the heart-wrenching pain...
However, there is a difference, namely that Dashboard Confessional wrote this piece of tripe in order to convey their emotions, and David and I wrote this in order to make fun of other people's emotions, with good reason: emo is retarded.
You're not special, you're not cool, you're not somehow deep or unique, you're just an idiot with too much time on his hands. You would rather bitch and whine about how everything is meaningless than go and make some meaning in your life. You suck and you're a waste of space. You keep threatening to "disappear forever into the abyss" but you keep disappointing us by never doing it. Stop being such a pussy and get out of my face. Man, I hate emos.
Get me out of here!