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So people keep asking me what this badge is for ... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!
A Depressive?'
'Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.' Olive tapped her temple. 'And here.' She touched her heart.
I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.
I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds,
I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.
There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
My personal style is preppy with an edge.
If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'
Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional. (FINE)
Could it be that Cania isn't the ultimate prep school, isn't the sure way into the Ivy League? As if to solidify my suspicion, a guy with emo eyeliner tells his ill-fated story.
Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.
The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.
I'd been labelled a goth, an emo, a druggie, a loser, and my personal favorite only because it showed just how ignorant people were: a freak.
He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS written across the chest.
I would say I have a bit of a nerd vibe.
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
Even when I was a little kid, I hated to dress up. I hated to put on regular shoes. I wanted to play all the time. I hate to wear any kind of coat or sweater. I've never liked hot. I've never liked to be warm.
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker ... better to burn out than to fade away.
In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.
The most sad and dangerous people are the ones who are desperate to be like you. The people dress like you, try to talk like you. That's called a whitchcraft act.
We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy
I'm sort of like the kid that kicks around in Vans, beat-up Converse, ripped jeans, and t-shirts.
Labels not make you happy...Good. Bad. You must love you.
-Zombie
Good Charlotte is anger management teen angst.
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
Like my outfit? I'm going for counterculture. By showing up to a punk rock concert in the least punk-aesthetic outfit possible, I'm the most punk person there.
I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.
I am an emotional I am an emotional, devotional, incandotional creature.
Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.
You can see it in people's faces, when they're into a metal band. It's cool to see that being passed on.
I'm a normal person.I have emotions.
Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.
This girl. This little high school kid with her stupid boots and her Addams Family wardrobe and her skin as white and floury-looking as unbaked bread. Pillsbury goth girl, just out of the can.
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.
I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.
Everybody struggles with this stuff, you know. With social discomfort and grief and fitting in. People with syndromes, people with disorders, people with diagnoses, and without. People who would be classified as neurotypical. Idiots and geniuses, maids and doctors. Nobody's got it all figured out.
I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes.
I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.
I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion.
The category I come closest to is 'lumberjack hipster.'
Bohemian - a respectable sort of tramp.
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
A rebel to what's cool, I don't follow trends, maybe that's why I don't have many friends, but I know my destination.
ORDINARY SAD-ASS HUMANNESS
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.
I don't like labels. I won't be defined by words like normal, unbalanced, or damaged. There's so much more to me than words. I have layers, just like the next person, and if you picked me apart layer-by-layer, you'd find a blackened crust where my heart should be.
Raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack ...
I'm an emotional person.
I'd been an outcast my entire life. Growing up with technophobe parents in the dawn of a Cyborg Age did that to a person.
A lot of people say I'm like a pop girl, but I don't know what that means.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.
I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization.
It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.
Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.
(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.
People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.
SPOM: Superficial, pretentious, and obnoxiously materialistic.
Remember kids: Don't get emotionally attached to a band. You'll get pregnant and die.
As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.
I am the original 'Material Girl.'
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.
In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.
That's me, I'm emotional.
A girl who wants everything, but shares nothing. A girl who is lost and sad, but too embarrassed to share it with anyone.
I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.
Basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.
I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.
Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.
I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.
I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.
Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you.
We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.
It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
uncultured youths who make random pronouncements on everything
I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.
It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black
and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?
I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.
equal-opportunity sadist.
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.
I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.
I like to think of myself as a pure rebel;
A radical thinker on a musical level.
I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.
The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
C.M. Punk ... I think you're a nerd
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.
Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'