Do you think Emo/Goth kids...

[featherfinder]

When i was still in school i was one of those emo/goths and i had my stress issues but i never took it to far. I had friends that did and i was the one to help them past it and to stop the weird stuff. But most of it was because of people not accepting them and especially family! My mom was there with me threw it all. When i was 14 i wanted pink hair so bad! We came to a compromise. I could never have a full head pink and she wanted to help me. I had half of the underneath done for awhile and then i switched to my bangs and they went threw every color of the rainbow over the years but i always went back to pink and my mom always helped me do it. I actually had pink hair till i was 19 and got a real job lol and in my senior pictures i had purple. I also had a bunch of piercings and my mom signed for ever single one till i turned 18 and once i turned 18 i got one facial piercing which is my lip and i still have it. My family and friends loved that i wasnt afraid to be me because they knew i was a good kid with good grades and thats why they allowed me to do what i did. And most of my friends where the same except for the few they were beyond help but i was always there to listen. I look pretty normal now because of growing up. I hide all my earings behind my hair and a clear piece in my lip while im at work but it is all still there. Somethings i just dont want to part with yet

Also still have a couple of pants with chains in the back of my closet even though i never wear them lol. Even that tattoos! My mom paid for my very first one and we got one done at the same time! She always told me never get anyones name besides your kids and never put them anywhere you can not hide! I still follow by that and only have a couple.

 

[annie3001]

what is emo/goth kids?

 

[TinyChickenLady]

I always thought there was a difference between emo and goth....
Like emo is a personality type (usually depressed and deep thinking) while goth is a way to dress....
Is that wrong?
I've had some goth friends. They're all just as nice as anyone else, they just prefer their clothes to be dark and, in my opinion, fashion forward with a twist

I also have some emo friends that I have recommended therapy to (as a friend, not a judge) because they were suicidal and angry and sad ALL THE TIME

 

[featherfinder]

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Emo can be a style as well but they do tend to be more emotional you are right there but clothes are different. They are usually tighter and they also have all the weird hair cuts and stuff versus straight jet black hair.

 

[cameron]

Im pretty tolerant of others peoples styles. My sister is a full blown hippy. Lives up around Seattle, does yoga and burns incense with Mother Earth and all that. She pokes fun at me cause I look like a hillbilly skinhead with my tattoos, shaved head and overalls. But, we love each other. I'm her brother, she's my sister, and there's nothing we can do about it!

The girl that does my inkwork on me is pretty gothic. Shes drives a hearse and is into bloodletting and all that. I may not be interested in her practices but I ain't gonna hate her for it.

However, on the goth topic. Im ok with it but it ain't for me. There's just 2 things I can't get past.

1. The skinny jeans. Sorry, but they look pretty constricting to me. Without being too descriptive, there's certain parts of my jeans I like a little more room in! I couldn't wear something that's shrinkwrapped so tight up against my fellas!

2. Makeup. The first guy I ever saw with tattooed eyeliner was Mike Ness of Social Distortion. Here was a guy who was truly a man's man, had an awesome singing voice, drove a '36 Ford, and suddenly gets makeup tattooed on his eyes. I couldn't listen to Social D for a long while because of that. Then I figured, so what? I met him a few years ago at a hot rod show and as expected, he's as cool as can be.

But, I still think that makeup on a guy robs him of a certain degree of masculinity. Just my belief... Girls are supposed to be prettier than guys and girls are supposed to take longer to get ready to go out to dinner and a movie.

My girlfriend tells me she has to take so long to get ready because the better she looks, the better it makes me look! Awww.....Thanks, sweetie!

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Punk, emo, (second wave) ska, goth, and metal are all music genres. However, they can also all be clothing and fasion styles or lifestyles, but they all formed from music.

Emo emerged from the punk rock scene in the mid 80s. It comes from "emotional hardcore". It usually features more melodic and lyrical styles than punk rock. It also tends to focus on the individual, and be more internal in dialogue, where as punk is often focused on society and the community. Emo became more mainstream in the early 2000s, with the fashion becomming more widely seen too. Emo these days tends to have more pop ties than punk influence. The style also changed from more clean cut to what you see today (black hair, side swept hair, occasional ambiguous gender style, etc) when younger generations picked it up. The term 'emo' has also evolved with the times, and now can mean a shy/depressed/suicidal individual.

Goth comes from post-punk alternative bands, but typically it is tied more to metal these days. Gothic metal is a subgenre of metal, where as gothic rock is a subgenre of post-punk. Gothic rock also features more introverted lyrics than punk, along with sythesized music. Gothic metal tends to have elements of gothic literature (literature combining horror with romance). As a fashion subculture, goth typically features dark colors, a sense of morbidness or gloom, and often has Victorian overtones. Gothic metal style sometimes has more death related themes.

 

[Kickin.Cowgirl]

Ive only known two.
The first one was constantly seeking attention.. Ill call him Kid A was always on about hating the world and blah blah...nice kid but was into the whole thing, like his friends, for what I think seemed to be into it for attention. The second one, Kid B, was sadly, sadly morbid, always talked about vampires and death, had a history of suicide attempts (first one at age 12) and so forth. I would worry if my kid was 'that' kind of goth, but honestly I just see this as a fad with most of the kids who get into this. Like I once told kid A ''Sid Vicious died in the 80's - get over it''

 

[aoxa]

I was one. I have to say that all of my friends (including I), were depressed/angry with the world.

My dad always said, that music is making you depressed/angry. Of course he was right. I gave up the music. I felt better.

I am 24 now. Was goth from the time I hit puberty - 18.

 

[ChooksChick]

I couldn't vote, because I don't think we can tell by looking at someone.

You'd never know it, but I had a 10" green mohawk in the 80's....and now I'm Betty Crocker!

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Emo kids I've met tend towards the over-hyper-dramatic, and entirely pop music oriented. Seem nice enough, but just a new way for teenagers to annoy/shock parents.

Goth tends to be more of a stable culture now, it's been around HOW long? I remember goth in HS. There are plenty of adults who are goth still. I'm probably on the line. Where do Rammstein and old Nightwish fall into this?